1:8 First of all, 13 I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. 1:9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel 14 of his Son, is my witness that 15 I continually remember you 1:10 and I always ask 16 in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God. 17 1:11 For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift 18 to strengthen you, 1:12 that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, 19 both yours and mine. 1:13 I do not want you to be unaware, 20 brothers and sisters, 21 that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles. 22 1:14 I am a debtor 23 both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. 1:15 Thus I am eager 24 also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome. 25
1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 26 1:17 For the righteousness 27 of God is revealed in the gospel 28 from faith to faith, 29 just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.” 30
1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people 31 who suppress the truth by their 32 unrighteousness, 33 1:19 because what can be known about God is plain to them, 34 because God has made it plain to them. 1:20 For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people 35 are without excuse. 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts 36 were darkened. 1:22 Although they claimed 37 to be wise, they became fools 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings 38 or birds or four-footed animals 39 or reptiles.
1:24 Therefore God gave them over 40 in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor 41 their bodies among themselves. 42 1:25 They 43 exchanged the truth of God for a lie 44 and worshiped and served the creation 45 rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 46 1:27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women 47 and were inflamed in their passions 48 for one another. Men 49 committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, 50 God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. 51 1:29 They are filled 52 with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with 53 envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips, 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, 1:31 senseless, covenant-breakers, 54 heartless, ruthless. 1:32 Although they fully know 55 God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, 56 they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them. 57