(Rom 1:7) “To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints:…..” In your KJV Bible you will find the words “to be” italicized. This tells us it was not in the original text. So, the text reads, “called saints”. “Saint” comes from the root word “holy”: anything separated unto God. Through the born again experience, the blood payment applied, the new Child of God is now rightly a “Saint”.