Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

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.

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever! Amen.

who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

And will not the physically uncircumcised man who keeps the law judge you who, despite the written code and circumcision, transgress the law?

namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

As he also says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ‘My beloved.’”

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him.

So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

But what was the divine response to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

so they too have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!