1<\/sup>Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called as an Apostle, separated for the Gospel of God,<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>which he had promised beforehand, through his Prophets, in the Holy Scriptures,<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>about his Son, who was made for him from the offspring of David according to the flesh,<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>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,<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>through whom we have received grace and Apostleship, for the sake of his name, for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles,<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>from whom you also have been called by Jesus Christ:<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>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<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you a certain spiritual grace to strengthen you,<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>specifically, to be consoled together with you through that which is mutual: your faith and mine.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>To the Greeks and to the uncivilized, to the wise and to the foolish, I am in debt.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>So within me there is a prompting to evangelize to you also who are at Rome.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>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.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>For what is known about God is manifest in them. For God has manifested it to them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>For, while proclaiming themselves to be wise, they became foolish.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>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:<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, spite, gossiping;<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>slanderous, hateful toward God, abusive, arrogant, self-exalting, devisers of evil, disobedient to parents,<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>foolish, disorderly; without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n