Romans 1
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The Gospel of God for Rome
1Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle#1:1 Or Jesus, a called apostle#1Co 1:1; 9:1; 2Co 1:1 and set apart#Ac 9:15; 13:2; Gl 1:15 for the gospel of God#Mk 1:14 — 2which he promised beforehand#Ti 1:2 through his prophets#Lk 1:70; Rm 3:21; 16:26 in the Holy Scriptures — 3concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was a descendant of David#1:3 Lit was of the seed of David#Mt 1:1 according to the flesh#Jn 1:14; Rm 4:1; 9:3,5; 1Co 10:18 4and was appointed to be the powerful#Ac 10:38; 13:33; 17:31; 26:23 Son of God#Mt 4:3 according to the Spirit of holiness#1:4 Or the spirit of holiness, or the Holy Spirit by the resurrection of the dead. 5Through him we have received grace and apostleship#Ac 1:25; Gl 1:16 to bring about#1:5 Or him for; lit him into the obedience#Ac 6:7; Rm 16:26 of faith for the sake of his name among all the Gentiles,#1:5 Or nations, also in v. 13#Ac 9:15 6including you who are also called by Jesus Christ.#Jd 1; Rv 17:14
7To all who are in Rome, loved by God,#Rm 5:5; 8:39; 1Th 1:4 called#Rm 8:28; 1Co 1:24 as saints.#1Co 1:2–4
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome
8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith#1:8 Or because your faith is being reported in all the world.#Rm 16:19 9God is my witness,#Rm 9:1; 2Co 1:23; 11:31; Php 1:8; 1Th 2:5,10 whom I serve with my spirit#2Tm 1:3 in telling the good news about his Son — that I constantly mention you,#Eph 1:16; Php 1:3–5; 1Th 1:2; 2Tm 1:3; Phm 4 10always asking in my prayers that if it is somehow in God’s will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.#Ac 18:21; Rm 15:32 11For I want very much to see you,#Ac 19:21; Rm 15:23 so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you, 12that is, to be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
13Now I don’t want you to be unaware,#1Co 10:1; 11:3 brothers and sisters, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now#Ac 19:21) in order that I might have a fruitful ministry#1:13 Lit have some fruit among you,#Jn 4:36; Rm 15:16; Php 1:22; Col 1:6 just as I have had among the rest of the Gentiles. 14I am obligated both to Greeks and barbarians,#1:14 Or non-Greeks#Ac 28:2 both to the wise and the foolish. 15So I am eager to preach the gospel#Rm 15:20; 1Co 9:16 to you also who are in Rome.
The Righteous Will Live by Faith
16For I am not ashamed of the gospel,#1:16 Other mss add of Christ#2Tm 1:8,12,16 because it is the power of God for salvation#1Co 1:18,24 to everyone who believes, first to the Jew,#Ac 3:26; Rm 2:9 and also to the Greek.#Jn 7:35 17For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith,#1:17 Or revealed out of faith into faith#Rm 3:21; 9:30; Php 3:9 just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.#1:17 Or The one who is righteous by faith will live#1:17Hab 2:4#Hab 2:4; Gl 3:11; Heb 10:38
The Guilt of the Gentile World
18For God’s wrath#Rm 5:9; Eph 5:6; Col 3:6 is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,#2Th 2:6–10 19since what can be known#1:19 Or what is known about God is evident among them,#Ac 14:17; 17:24–27 because God has shown it to them. 20For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world,#Mk 10:6 being understood through what he has made.#Jb 12:7–9; Ps 19:1–6; Jr 5:21–22 As a result, people are without excuse. 21For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.#2Kg 17:15; Jr 2:5; Eph 4:17–20 22Claiming to be wise, they became fools#Jr 10:14; 1Co 1:20 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.#Ps 106:20; Jr 2:11; Ac 17:29
24Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts#Eph 2:3; 4:19 to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie,#Is 44:20; Jr 10:14; 13:25; 16:19 and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever.#Rm 9:5; 2Co 11:31 Amen.
From Idolatry to Depravity
26For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions.#1Th 4:5 Their women#1:26 Lit females, also in v. 27 exchanged natural sexual relations#1:26 Lit natural use, also in v. 27 for unnatural ones. 27The men#1:27 Lit males, also later in v. in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men#Lv 18:22; 20:13; 1Co 6:9 and received in their own persons#1:27 Or in themselves the appropriate penalty of their error.
28And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right. 29They are filled with all unrighteousness,#1:29 Other mss add sexual immorality evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,#2Co 12:20 30slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful,#Ps 5:5 inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,#2Tm 3:2 31senseless, untrustworthy, unloving,#1:31 Other mss add unforgiving#2Tm 3:3 and unmerciful. 32Although they know God’s just sentence — that those who practice such things deserve to die#1:32 Lit things are worthy of death#Rm 6:21 — they not only do them, but even applaud#1:32 Lit even take pleasure in#Lk 11:48; Ac 8:1; 22:20 others who practice them.
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Romans 1
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1PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
2Which he had promised before, by his prophets, in the holy scriptures,
3Concerning his Son, who was made to him of the seed of David, according to the flesh,
4Who was predestinated the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of sanctification, by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead;
5By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith, in all nations, for his name;
6Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ:
7To all that are at Rome, the beloved of God, called to be saints. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
8First I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all, because your faith is spoken of in the whole world.
9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you;
10Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you.
11For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual grace, to strengthen you:
12That is to say, that I may be comforted together in you, by that which is common to us both, your faith and mine.
13And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you, (and have been hindered hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
14To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise, I am a debtor;
15So (as much as is in me) I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are at Rome.
16For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and to the Greek.
17For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.
18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice:
19Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto them.
20For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; his eternal power also, and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.
21Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God, or given thanks; but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
23And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and of creeping things.
24Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.
25Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.
27And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error.
28And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient;
29Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers,
30Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31Foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.
32Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.
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