⁸First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the world.^* ⁹For God, whom I serve with my spirit by announcing the gospel^b of his Son, is my witness that without ceasing I remember you always in my prayers,^* ¹⁰asking that by God’s will I may somehow at last succeed in coming to you. ¹¹For I long to see you so that I may share with you some spiritual gift so that you may be strengthened—¹²or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. ¹³I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you, as I have among the rest of the gentiles. ¹⁴I am obligated both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish, ¹⁵hence my eagerness to proclaim the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

The Power of the Gospel

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is God’s saving power for everyone who believes,^c for the Jew first and also for the Greek.^* ¹⁷For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith, as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”^d^*

Read in Logos

Romans 1:16–17: For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes…For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Footnotes

bGk my spirit in the gospel
cOr trusts
dOr The one who is righteous through faith will live

Cross references

*Rom 16:19; Phil 1:3
*Acts 24:14; Eph 1:16; Phil 1:8
*Acts 3:26; Rom 2:9; 1 Cor 1:18; 2 Tim 1:8
*Rom 3:21; Gal 3:11; Heb 10:38