St. Paul's Epistles (redaction AB, with variant readings)

The book of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, reading â. Paul's BE, Romans GE, â ] first B, -- G. 1 Paul, servant of Jesus Christ, chosen apostle, elect of that Gospel of God, which was promised beforehand by his own prophets from the holy books concerning his Son, who was born from the seed of David in the flesh, who appeared as Son of God by power and by that Spirit of holiness, by that resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ our Lord, from whom we have received grace and apostleship for the establishment of the faith of all the Gentiles for the sake of his name, for which you also are chosen of Christ Jesus, all of you who are in Rome, beloved of God, chosen saints, grace to you and peace from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ! First I thank my God through Christ Jesus for all of you, for this faith of yours is proclaimed throughout the whole world, for God is my witness, whom I serve with my soul Ms. page: A32V with the Gospel of his Son, as I make mention of you without fail. In my prayers I always pray for you, that I might be permitted by the will of God to come to you,

Because I desire to see you, so that I too might impart to you some spiritual grace for your confirmation. But this is a mutual consolation among you, that faith of yours and mine. I do not desire your ignorance, brothers, for many times I wished to come to you and I delayed until now, so that I might also find some fruit among you, as among those other seeds. I am indebted to Gentiles and barbarians, to the wise and the foolish alike. Such is my zeal, that I might also gladden you who are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of this Gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of all who believe in it, first the Jews and then the Gentiles. For the righteousness of God is revealed in it as a faith of faith, as it is written: The righteous one shall be saved by faith (1). Hab. 2:4

Chapter 1. Chapter 1] These are the chapters G. The numbering of chapters in B always precedes the title. In T, however, the second chapter begins here, therefore the count of chapters is shifted by one, i.e., in T there are 22 chapters, in the others—21. For the wrath of God is manifest from heaven upon all the godless and false men, who held the truth of God in falsehood, for the knowledge of God is evident among them, for God himself revealed it to them. For his invisible [nature] is made known through the created things of the world from its beginning, visible for contemplation, his eternal power and divinity, so that they might be incapable of reason. In this section A has a reference to Asia: from the Wisdom of Solomon without the addition of a number. For they knew God but did not honor him as God, nor give thanks, but became vain through their own intention, and their heart, incapable of understanding, was darkened. They called their own heads wise and boasted and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the corruptible image of man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles. Therefore Ms. page: A33V God gave them over to the desire of their hearts to defile, so that their flesh might be abominable with them.

Those who exchanged the truth of God for falsehood and became unserviceable, and served the created things and not the Creator, who is blessed unto eternity. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to that passion of abomination, for their mothers changed the order of nature into unnaturalness. Likewise, their fathers abandoned the order of nature of mothers and were corrupted by their mutual lust. Men did shameful things with men, and they received from each other that which is fitting for their delusion. And since they did not test God, that they might have knowledge of him, God gave them over to that untested mind for the deed of impropriety; they were filled with all falsehood, wickedness, evil, pride, filled with envy, manslaughter, hatred, cunning, evil habit, slander, blasphemy, they were annoyers of God, revilers, arrogant, haughty, seekers of evil, disobedient to parents, senseless, lawless, unloving, unmerciful, pitiless, God-annoyers, seekers of evil, disobedient to parents, senseless, lawless, revilers, arrogant, haughty, seekers of evil, unloving, unmerciful, pitiless.

Those who knew the righteousness of God, that such doers are worthy of death; and not only did they do this, but they also took pleasure in their fellow-doers.