Romans 1:1-16 ▼

1 From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.

2 This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

3 concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,

4 who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

5 Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

6 You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.

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

8 First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you

10 and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

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

12 that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another's faith, both yours and mine.

13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, 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.

14 I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

15 Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.

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.