Romans (9-16) for the ALT Bible

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The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

Sample passage from chapters 9-16

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Romans 12

¹Therefore, I call on [or, plead with] you*, brothers [and sisters], through the compassions of God, to present your* bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God [which is] your* rational, sacred service. ²And [you* are] to stop conforming yourselves to this age, but [are] to continue being transformed [Gr., metamorphoomai] by the renewal of your* mind, in order for you* to be proving what [is] the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

³For I say, through the grace, the one having been given to me, to every[one] being among you*, stop thinking too highly of yourselves beyond what it is necessary to be thinking, but be thinking [so as] to be thinking sensibly, to each as God apportioned a measure of faith. ⁴For just as we have many body parts in one body, but all the body parts do not have the same function, ⁵so we, the many, are one body in Christ, but parts each one of one another.

⁶Now we have spiritual gifts of various kinds according to the grace, the one having been given to us: whether prophecy, according to the proportion of the faith; ⁷whether ministry, in the ministry; whether the one teaching, in the teaching; ⁸whether the one exhorting [or, encouraging], in the exhortation [or, encouragement]; the one sharing, with generosity; the one leading, with diligence; the one showing mercy, with cheerfulness.

⁹[Let] love [be] sincere; be abhorring the evil; be clinging to the good. ¹⁰[Be] warmly devoted to one another with brotherly love [fig., affection for fellow-believers], giving preference to one another in honor, ¹¹not lagging in diligence, boiling [fig., being fervent] in spirit [or, in the Spirit], serving as a slave to the Lord, ¹²rejoicing in the hope [or, confident expectation], enduring in affliction, persevering in prayer, ¹³contributing to the needs of the holy ones, pursuing hospitality.

¹⁴Be blessing the ones persecuting you*; be blessing, and stop cursing. ¹⁵[You* are] to be rejoicing with rejoicing [ones] and to be weeping with weeping [ones]. ¹⁶Be having the same mind towards one another. Stop having the high [things] in mind, but be associating with the lowly [or, the ones of humble circumstances]. Stop becoming wise in your* own conceit, ¹⁷repaying to no one evil for evil, having regard for good [things] before all people.

¹⁸If possible, the [thing] of you* [fig., as much as it depends on you*], be living in peace with all people, ¹⁹not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to [fig., make room for] the wrath [of God], for it has been written, “Vengeance [is] Mine, I will repay,” says [the] Lord. [Deut 32:35] ²⁰“So if your enemy is hungering, be feeding him; if he thirsts, be giving him to drink; for doing this, you will heap coals of fire on his head.” [Prov 25:21,22, LXX] ²¹Stop being overcome by evil, but be overcoming evil with good.

Scripture taken from the Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament of the Holy Bible: Third Edition.
Copyright © 2007 by Gary F. Zeolla of Darkness to Light ministry (www.zeolla.org/christian).
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