New Testament · Letters

Romans chapter 1

From Paul, a of , Jesus — called to be an , and for God’s .This good news isn’t new — God promised it long ago through his in the .It’s about his — who, in terms of his human ancestry, was born into ,and who was powerfully to be the Son of God by when he was — Jesus the One, our .Through him and for his name’s sake, we received the of being ambassadors — to call people from every nation to him,and that includes you — you who have been to belong to Jesus the One.To all of you in Rome who are loved by God and called to be : may and be yours from God our Father and from the master, Jesus the One.First of all, I thank my God through Jesus the One for every one of you, because the whole world is hearing about your in him.God is my witness — the God I by spreading the good news about his Son — that I constantly remember youand always ask in my prayers that somehow, by God’s will, the way might finally open for me to come to you.I’m longing to see you so I can share to strengthen you —or rather, so that we can encourage each other through the trust we share — yours and mine together.I want you to know, , that I’ve planned many times to come to you — though I’ve been blocked until now — so that I could see real results among you, just like I have among the other .I owe a debt to both , to both the educated and the uneducated.So I’m eager to share the good news with you in Rome too.I’m not ashamed of this good news — it’s God’s to everyone who in it, the Jewish people first and also the non-Jewish people.Because in this good news, is being — a way that starts with and ends with trust, just as it’s written: “The person made right by trust will truly live.”But God’s is also being revealed from heaven against every form of wickedness and injustice committed by people who use their wrongdoing to what’s true.What can be known about God is to them, because God himself has made it obvious.Ever since the world was created, God’s invisible qualities — his and — have been clearly seen through what he’s made. So people have no excuse.Because even though they knew God, they didn’t honor him as God or thank him. Instead, their , and their foolish minds were .Claiming to be wise, they became and traded the of the immortal God for — images shaped like mortal humans, birds, animals, and reptiles.So God . He handed them over to the of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies with each other —because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and created things rather than the Creator — who is praised forever. .Because of this, God handed them over to . Even their women exchanged sexual relations for unnatural ones,and in the same way, the men abandoned natural relations with women and for each other. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due consequence of their .And since they didn’t think it worthwhile to hold on to the knowledge of God, God handed them over to a , so they do what should never be done.They’ve become filled with every kind of , wickedness, greed, and . They’re full of envy, murder, conflict, deceit, and cruelty. They’re gossips,slanderers, , arrogant, boastful, , and disobedient to their parents.They have no understanding, , , no mercy.They know perfectly well that says people who do these things deserve — yet they not only keep doing them but actively others who do the same.