The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Romans 01
1 Paul, a servant ofJesus Christ,† called to
be an apostle, set apart for the Good News
of God,
2 which he promised before through his
prophets in the holy Scriptures,
3 concerning his Son, who was born of
the offspring‡ of David according
to the flesh,
4 who was declared to be the Son of God
with power according to the Spirit of
holiness, by the resurrection from the dead,
Jesus Christ our Lord,
5 through whom we received grace and
apostleship for obedience of faith among
all the nations for his name’s sake;
6 among whom you are also called to
belong to Jesus Christ;
7 to all who are in Rome, beloved of God,
called to be saints: Grace to you and peace
from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus
Christ for all of you, that your faith
is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in
my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how
unceasingly I make mention of you always
in my prayers,
10 requesting, if by any means now atlast
I may be prospered by the will of God to
come to you.
11 For I long to see you, that I may impart
to you some spiritual gift, to the end that
you may be established;
12 that is, that I with you may be encouraged
in you, each of us by the other’s faith,
both yours and mine.
13 Now I don’t desire to have you unaware,
brothers, that I often planned to
come to you(and washindered so far),that
I might have some fruit among you also,
even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners,
both to the wise and to the foolish.
15 So as much as is in me, I am eager to
preach the Good News to you also who are
in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the Good
News of Christ, because it is the power of
God for salvation for everyone who believes,
for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
17 For in it is revealed God’s righteousness
from faith to faith. As it is written,
“But the righteous shall live by faith.”*
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men who suppress the
truth in unrighteousness,
19 because that which is known of God
is revealed in them, for God revealed
it to them.
20 For the invisible things of him since
the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being perceived through the things that
are made, even his everlasting power and
divinity, that they may be without excuse.
21 Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify
him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but
became vain in their reasoning, and their
senseless heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they
became fools,
23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible
God for the likeness of an image of
corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed
animals, and creeping things.
24 Therefore God also gave them up in
the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness,
that their bodies should be dishonored
among themselves;
25 who exchanged the truth of God for a
lie, and worshiped and served the creature
rather than the Creator, who is blessed
forever. Amen.
26 For this reason, God gave them up to
vile passions. For their women changed
the natural function into that which is
against nature.
27 Likewise also the men, leaving the
natural function of the woman, burned in
their lust toward one another, men doing
what is inappropriate with men, and
receiving in themselves the due penalty of
their error.
28 Even as they refused to have God in
their knowledge, God gave them up to a
reprobate mind, to do those things which
are not fitting;
29 being filled with all unrighteousness,
sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness,
malice; full of envy, murder, strife,
deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent,
arrogant, boastful, inventors of evilthings,
disobedient to parents,
31 without understanding, covenant
breakers, without natural affection,
unforgiving, unmerciful;
32 who, knowing the ordinance of God,
that those who practice such things are
worthy of death, not only do the same, but
also approve of those who practice them.