ROMANS Chapter 1
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, 
called to be an apostle,
separated unto the gospel of God,
which He promised before through His prophets in the
Holy Scriptures,
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord,
which was made
of the seed of David according to the flesh;
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of
holiness,
by the resurrection from the dead:
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among
all nations, for his name: Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
*To all that be in Rome,
beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and
peace from God our Father,
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
*First,
I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all,
that your faith is
spoken of throughout the whole world.
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son,
that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey
by the will of God to come unto you. For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the
end ye may be established; That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of
you and me.
Now I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I
often planned to come to you
(but was hindered until now),
that I might have
some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles.
I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians;
both to the wise, and to the unwise.
So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome
also.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ:
for it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth;
to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith:
as it is
written, The just shall live by faith.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men,
who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
*They know the truth about God because he has made it
obvious to them.
For ever since the world was created, people have seen
the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his
invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse
for not knowing God.
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were
thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was
darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to
corruptible man,
and to birds,
and fourfooted beasts,
and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own
hearts,
to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,
and
worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever
praised. Amen.
*For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:
for even their women did
change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men,
leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their
lust one toward another;
men with men working that which is unseemly,
and
receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them
over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Being filled with all unrighteousness,
fornication,
wickedness,
covetousness,
maliciousness;
full of envy,
murder,
strife,
deceit,
malignity;
whisperers,
Backbiters,
haters of God,
despiteful,
proud,
boasters,
inventors of evil
things,
disobedient to parents,
They refuse to understand,
break their promises,
are
heartless,
and have no mercy.
Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who
do such things deserve death,
*they not only continue to do these very things
*but
also approve of those who practice them.
