Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

For just as it is written, “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”

So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

and I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of Christ’s blessing.

so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my good friend Stachys.

Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me.