Romans 8-10 (Darby Translation)

Romans 8

 ¹[There is] then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.

 ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

 ³For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

 ⁴in order that the righteous requirement of the law should be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to flesh but according to Spirit.

 ⁵For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

 ⁶For the mind of the flesh [is] death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.

 ⁷Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

 ⁸and they that are in flesh cannot please God.

 ⁹But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not [the] Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him:

 ¹⁰but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.

 ¹¹But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among [the] dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among [the] dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.

 ¹²So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh;

 ¹³for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:

 ¹⁴for as many as are led by [the] Spirit of God, *these* are sons of God.

 ¹⁵For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

 ¹⁶The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God.

 ¹⁷And if children, heirs also: heirs of God, and Christ's joint heirs; if indeed we suffer with [him], that we may also be glorified with [him].

 ¹⁸For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the coming glory to be revealed to us.

 ¹⁹For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God:

 ²⁰for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected [the same], in hope

 ²¹that the creature itself also shall be set free from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

 ²²For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.

 ²³And not only [that], but even *we* ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, [that is] the redemption of our body.

 ²⁴For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

 ²⁵But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience.

 ²⁶And in like manner the Spirit joins also its help to our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray for as is fitting, but the Spirit itself makes intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered.

 ²⁷But he who searches the hearts knows what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for saints according to God.

 ²⁸But we *do* know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

 ²⁹Because whom he has foreknown, he has also predestinated [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be [the] firstborn among many brethren.

 ³⁰But whom he has predestinated, these also he has called; and whom he has called, these also he has justified; but whom he has justified, these also he has glorified.

 ³¹What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who against us?

 ³²He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?

 ³³Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? [It is] God who justifies:

 ³⁴who is he that condemns? [It is] Christ who has died, but rather has been [also] raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.

 ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

 ³⁶According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

 ³⁷But in all these things we more than conquer through him that has loved us.

 ³⁸For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

 ³⁹nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which [is] in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 9

 ¹I say [the] truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit,

 ²that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

 ³for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

 ⁴who are Israelites; whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;

 ⁵whose [are] the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, [is] the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

 ⁶Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel;

 ⁷nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

 ⁸That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

 ⁹For this word [is] of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.

 ¹⁰And not only [that], but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,

 ¹¹[the children] indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

 ¹²it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

 ¹³according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau.

 ¹⁴What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? Far be the thought.

 ¹⁵For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy, and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel compassion.

 ¹⁶So then [it is] not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

 ¹⁷For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst [men], that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth.

 ¹⁸So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens.

 ¹⁹Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?

 ²⁰Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

 ²¹Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?

 ²²And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

 ²³and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,

 ²⁴us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst [the] Jews, but also from amongst [the] nations?

 ²⁵As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.

 ²⁶And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, *Ye* [are] not my people, there shall they be called Sons of [the] living God.

 ²⁷But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:

 ²⁸for [he] is bringing the matter to an end, and [cutting [it] short in righteousness; because] a cutting short of the matter will [the] Lord accomplish upon the earth.

 ²⁹And according as Esaias said before, Unless [the] Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.

 ³⁰What then shall we say? That [they of the] nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but [the] righteousness that is on the principle of faith.

 ³¹But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to [that] law.

 ³²Wherefore? Because [it was] not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,

 ³³according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

Romans 10

 ¹Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which [I address] to God for them is for salvation.

 ²For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

 ³For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own [righteousness], have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

 ⁴For Christ is [the] end of law for righteousness to every one that believes.

 ⁵For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live by them.

 ⁶But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring Christ down;

 ⁷or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring up Christ from among [the] dead.

 ⁸But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

 ⁹that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among [the] dead, thou shalt be saved.

 ¹⁰For with [the] heart is believed to righteousness; and with [the] mouth confession made to salvation.

 ¹¹For the scripture says, No one believing on him shall be ashamed.

 ¹²For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all [is] rich towards all that call upon him.

 ¹³For every one whosoever, who shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved.

 ¹⁴How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one who preaches?

 ¹⁵and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things!

 ¹⁶But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?

 ¹⁷So faith then [is] by a report, but the report by God's word.

 ¹⁸But I say, Have they not heard? Yea, surely, Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the extremities of the habitable world.

 ¹⁹But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, *I* will provoke you to jealousy through [them that are] not a nation: through a nation without understanding I will anger you.

 ²⁰But Esaias is very bold, and says, I have been found by those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not inquiring after me.

 ²¹But unto Israel he says, All the day long I have stretched out my hands unto a people disobeying and opposing.