Romans 1

1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

2 the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,

Of which God had given word before by his prophets in the holy Writings,

3 regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,

About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David,

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.

But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,

5 Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.

Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:

6 And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.

Among whom you in the same way have been marked out to be disciples of Jesus Christ:

7 To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as 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 your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.

First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.

9 God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you

For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,

10 in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God’s will I may succeed in coming to you.

And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.

11 For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.

That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.

13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

14 I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.

I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.

15 That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome.

16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.

For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.

17 For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.

18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;

19 For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.

20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. (aïdios g126)

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing: (aïdios g126)

21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. (aiōn g165)

Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it. (aiōn g165)

26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

27 Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.

28 Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,

31 They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:

32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.

Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.