Romans 4-7 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)

Romans 4

 ¹What shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our father according to the flesh.

    ²For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

    ³For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.

    ⁴Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt.

    ⁵But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.

    ⁶As David also termeth the blessedness of a man, to whom God reputeth justice without works:

    ⁷Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

    ⁸Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.

    ⁹This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only, or in the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed to justice.

    ¹⁰How then was it reputed? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

    ¹¹And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith, which he had, being uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised, that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:

    ¹²And might be the father of circumcision; not to them only, that are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the faithful, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

    ¹³For not through the law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world; but through the justice of faith.

    ¹⁴For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, the promise is made of no effect.

    ¹⁵For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

    ¹⁶Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

    ¹⁷(As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations,) before God, whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead; and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.

    ¹⁸Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

    ¹⁹And he was not weak in faith; neither did he consider his own body now dead, whereas he was almost an hundred years old, nor the dead womb of Sara.

    ²⁰In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust; but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God:

    ²¹Most fully knowing, that whatsoever he has promised, he is able also to perform.

    ²²And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice.

    ²³Now it is not written only for him, that it was reputed to him unto justice,

    ²⁴But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed, if we believe in him, that raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from the dead,

    ²⁵Who was delivered up for our sins, and rose again for our justification.

   

Romans 5

 ¹Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:

    ²By whom also we have access through faith into this grace, wherein we stand, and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

    ³And not only so; but we glory also in tribulations, knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

    ⁴And patience trial; and trial hope;

    ⁵And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us.

    ⁶For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

    ⁷For scarce for a just man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.

    ⁸But God commendeth his charity towards us; because when as yet we were sinners, according to the time,

    ⁹Christ died for us; much more therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him.

    ¹⁰For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

    ¹¹And not only so; but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.

    ¹²Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.

    ¹³For until the law sin was in the world; but sin was not imputed, when the law was not.

    ¹⁴But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who have not sinned after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come.

    ¹⁵But not as the offence, so also the gift. For if by the offence of one, many died; much more the grace of God, and the gift, by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

    ¹⁶And not as it was by one sin, so also is the gift. For judgment indeed was by one unto condemnation; but grace is of many offences, unto justification.

    ¹⁷For if by one man's offence death reigned through one; much more they who receive abundance of grace, and of the gift, and of justice, shall reign in life through one, Jesus Christ.

    ¹⁸Therefore, as by the offence of one, unto all men to condemnation; so also by the justice of one, unto all men to justification of life.

    ¹⁹For as by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners; so also by the obedience of one, many shall be made just.

    ²⁰Now the law entered in, that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.

    ²¹That as sin hath reigned to death; so also grace might reign by justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

   

Romans 6

 ¹What shall we say, then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

    ²God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

    ³Know you not that all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death?

    ⁴For we are buried together with him by baptism into death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.

    ⁵For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

    ⁶Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

    ⁷For he that is dead is justified from sin.

    ⁸Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ:

    ⁹Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him.

    ¹⁰For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God:

    ¹¹So do you also reckon, that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    ¹²Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

    ¹³Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of justice unto God.

    ¹⁴For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace.

    ¹⁵What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

    ¹⁶Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice.

    ¹⁷But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart, unto that form of doctrine, into which you have been delivered.

    ¹⁸Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.

    ¹⁹I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.

    ²⁰For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.

    ²¹What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

    ²²But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.

    ²³For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

   

Romans 7

 ¹Know you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as it liveth?

    ²For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

    ³Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she is delivered from the law of her husband; so that she is not an adulteress, if she be with another man.

    ⁴Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ; that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead, that we may bring forth fruit to God.

    ⁵For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

    ⁶But now we are loosed from the law of death, wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

    ⁷What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid. But I do not know sin, but by the law; for I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.

    ⁸But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

    ⁹And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

    ¹⁰And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.

    ¹¹For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me, and by it killed me.

    ¹²Wherefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

    ¹³Was that then which is good, made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in me; that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure.

    ¹⁴For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

    ¹⁵For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good which I will; but the evil which I hate, that I do.

    ¹⁶If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it is good.

    ¹⁷Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

    ¹⁸For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will, is present with me; but to accomplish that which is good, I find not.

    ¹⁹For the good which I will, I do not; but the evil which I will not, that I do.

    ²⁰Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

    ²¹I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me.

    ²²For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:

    ²³But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me in the law of sin, that is in my members.

    ²⁴Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

    ²⁵The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with the mind serve the law of God; but with the flesh, the law of sin.