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a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, 3 regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh, 4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. 5 Through him we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for His name’s sake. 6 And you yourselves are also called to belong to Jesus Christ.
7 To all who are in Rome, who are loved by God and called to be saints:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because the news of your faith is being reported in all the world. 9 For God, whom I serve with my spirit in proclaiming the gospel of His Son, is my witness that I remember you always my prayers, 10 constantly asking that by the will of God the way may at last be opened for me to come to you.
11 I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you, 12 that is, to be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. 13 Now I want you to know, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I may reap a fruitful harvest among you, just as I have had among the rest of the Gentiles.
14 I am obligated both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. 15 That is I am so eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith”.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible attributes are clearly seen, both His eternal power and divine nature, having been clearly seen and understood through what He has made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. Instead, their thinking became futile, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and four-footed animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, for the degrading of their bodies among themselves. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served something created rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them up to degrading passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for what is unnatural. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men, and received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversion.
28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind and to do things that should not be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, and disobedient to parents. 31 They are undiscerning, untrustworthy, heartless, and ruthless. 32 Although they fully know of God’s righteous degree, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, they not only continue to do these things but also approve of those who practice them.