Romans 1:1–17

The Gospel Exalted

¹Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, ^1acalled as an apostle, ^bset apart for ^cthe gospel of God,

²which He ^apromised beforehand through His ^bprophets in the holy Scriptures,

³concerning His Son, who was born ^aof a ¹descendant of David ^baccording to the flesh,

⁴who was declared ^athe Son of God with power ¹by the resurrection from the dead, according to the ²Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord,

⁵through whom we have received grace and ^aapostleship ¹to bring about the ^bobedience of faith among ^call the Gentiles for His name’s sake,

⁶among whom you also are the ^acalled of Jesus Christ;

⁷to all who are ^abeloved of God in Rome, called as ^1bsaints: ^cGrace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸First, ^aI thank my God through Jesus Christ ¹for you all, because ^byour faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.

⁹For ^aGod, whom I ^bserve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly ^cI make mention of you,

¹⁰always in my prayers making request, if perhaps now at last by ^athe will of God I may succeed in coming to you.

¹¹For ^aI long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be ¹established;

¹²that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

^13aI do not want you to be unaware, ^bbrethren, that often I ^chave planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some ^dfruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

^14aI am ¹under obligation both to Greeks and to ^bbarbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

¹⁵So, for my part, I am eager to ^apreach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

¹⁶For I am not ^aashamed of the gospel, for ^bit is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the ^cJew first and also to ^dthe Greek.

¹⁷For in it ^athe righteousness of God is revealed ¹from faith to faith; as it is written, “^2bBut the righteous man shall live by faith.”