| 1 | Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called as an Apostle, separated for the Gospel of God, |
| 2 | which he had promised beforehand, through his Prophets, in the Holy Scriptures, |
| 3 | about his Son, who was made for him from the offspring of David according to the flesh, |
| 4 | the Son of God, who was predestined in virtue according to the Spirit of sanctification from the resurrection of the dead, our Lord Jesus Christ, |
| 5 | through whom we have received grace and Apostleship, for the sake of his name, for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles, |
| 6 | from whom you also have been called by Jesus Christ: |
| 7 | To all who are at Rome, the beloved of God, called as saints. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 8 | Certainly, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, first for all of you, because your faith is being announced throughout the entire world. |
| 9 | For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit by the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I have kept a remembrance of you |
| 10 | always in my prayers, pleading that in some way, at some time, I may have a prosperous journey, within the will of God, to come to you. |
| 11 | For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you a certain spiritual grace to strengthen you, |
| 12 | specifically, to be consoled together with you through that which is mutual: your faith and mine. |
| 13 | But I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you, (though I have been hindered even to the present time) so that I might obtain some fruit among you also, just as also among the other Gentiles. |
| 14 | To the Greeks and to the uncivilized, to the wise and to the foolish, I am in debt. |
| 15 | So within me there is a prompting to evangelize to you also who are at Rome. |
| 16 | For I am not ashamed of the Gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation for all believers, the Jew first, and the Greek. |
| 17 | For the justice of God is revealed within it, by faith unto faith, just as it was written: "For the just one lives by faith." |
| 18 | For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven over every impiety and injustice among those men who fend off the truth of God with injustice. |
| 19 | For what is known about God is manifest in them. For God has manifested it to them. |
| 20 | For unseen things about him have been made conspicuous, since the creation of the world, being understood by the things that were made; likewise his everlasting virtue and divinity, so much so that they have no excuse. |
| 21 | For although they had known God, they did not glorify God, nor give thanks. Instead, they became weakened in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was obscured. |
| 22 | For, while proclaiming themselves to be wise, they became foolish. |
| 23 | And they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of four-legged beasts, and of serpents. |
| 24 | For this reason, God handed them over to the desires of their own heart for impurity, so that they afflicted their own bodies with indignities among themselves. |
| 25 | And they exchanged the truth of God for a lie. And they worshipped and served the creature, rather than the Creator, who is blessed for all eternity. Amen. |
| 26 | Because of this, God handed them over to shameful passions. For example, their females have exchanged the natural use of the body for a use which is against nature. |
| 27 | And similarly, the males also, abandoning the natural use of females, have burned in their desires for one another: males doing with males what is disgraceful, and receiving within themselves the recompense that necessarily results from their error. |
| 28 | And since they did not prove to have God by knowledge, God handed them over to a morally depraved way of thinking, so that they might do those things which are not fitting: |
| 29 | having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malice, gossiping; |
| 30 | slanderous, hateful toward God, abusive, arrogant, self-exalting, devisers of evil, disobedient to parents, |
| 31 | foolish, disorderly; without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. |
| 32 | And these, though they had known the justice of God, did not understand that those who act in such a manner are deserving of death, and not only those who do these things, but also those who consent to what is done. |
