1:1Paul, servant of Jesus Christ, called an Apostle, set apart for the Gospel of God, which he had promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures concerning his Son, who was made for him from the seed of David according to the flesh, who was predestined Son of God in power according to the spirit of sanctification from the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord: through whom we have received grace, and apostleship for obeying the faith among all the nations for his name, among whom are you too, called of Jesus Christ: to all who are at Rome, loved ones of God, called saints. 1:7Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:8First indeed I give thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you: because your faith is being announced in the whole world. 1:9For God is witness for me, whom I serve in my spirit in the Gospel of his Son, that without a break I make remembrance of you always in my prayers: begging, if somehow at last at some time I may have a prosperous journey in the will of God for coming to you. 1:11For I long to see you, so that I may share with you something of spiritual grace for strengthening you: that is, to be comforted together among you through that which is mutual, your faith and mine.
1:13But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers: that often I have proposed to come to you (and I have been prevented up till now) so that I may have some fruit among you too, just as also among the other nations. 1:14To Greeks and barbarians, to the wise and the unwise I am a debtor: so (as much as is in me) I am ready to preach the Gospel to you too, who are at Rome. 1:16For I do not blush at the Gospel. 1:16For it is the power of God for salvation to everyone believing, to the Jew first, and to the Greek. 1:17For the justice of God is revealed in it from faith into faith: just as it has been written: "But the just man lives from faith."
1:18For the anger of God is revealed from heaven upon all impiety, and injustice of those men who hold back the truth of God in injustice: because what is known of God is manifest among them. 1:19For God has made it manifest to them. 1:20For his invisible things, from the creation of the world, having been understood through those things which have been made, are clearly seen: his everlasting power also, and divinity: so that they are without excuse. 1:21Because when they had known God, they did not glorify him as God, or give thanks: but they became empty in their thoughts, and their unwise heart was darkened: for, saying that they were wise, they became fools.
1:23And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and of four-footed beasts, and of serpents. 1:24On account of which God handed them over to the desires of their heart, to uncleanness, so that they treat their bodies with insults among themselves: they who exchanged the truth of God for a lie: and worshipped, and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ages. 1:25Amen. 1:26Therefore God handed them over to passions of disgrace: for their women changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. 1:27And likewise the males too, the natural use of the female having been left, burned in their desires towards one another, males with males working shamefulness, and receiving in themselves the reward of their error which was due.
1:28And just as they did not see fit to hold God in knowledge, God handed them over to a reprobate mind, so that they do those things which are not fitting, filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, greed, wickedness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, spite: whisperers, slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, proud, haughty, inventors of evils, not obeying parents, unwise, disorderly, without affection, without covenant, without mercy. 1:32Who, though they had known the justice of God, did not understand that those who do such things are worthy of death: and not only those who do them, but also those who consent to those doing them.