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

[I am writing] to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called to be saints (God’s people) and set apart for a sanctified life, [that is, set apart for God and His purpose]: Grace to you and peace [inner calm and spiritual well-being] from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who are in Rome.

For, a righteousness of God, is therein revealed, - by faith unto faith: even as it is written - But, he that is righteous, by faith, shall live.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

So God has given them up, in their heart's lust, to sexual vice, to the dishonouring of their own bodies, ??25 since they have exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, worshipping and serving the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed for ever: Amen.

for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For this reason God gave them over to degrading and vile passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural [a function contrary to nature],

But, according to your hard and impenitent heart, you treasure up to yourself wrath for a day of wrath, and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

For, “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written [in Scripture].

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh.

And they have not known the path of peace.”

whom God made publicly available as the mercy seat through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because of the passing over of previously committed sins,

for a demonstration, I say, of his righteousness at this time: that He might be just, and the justifier of him, that believeth in Jesus.

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, the Messiah died for the ungodly.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through [the action of] one man [i.e., Adam] and [physical] death through that sin, so [physical] death has spread to all people, because all people have sinned. [Note: This difficult passage (verses 12-21) seems to be saying that the entire human race must experience physical death because of Adam's sin (I Cor. 5:22), which is somehow considered to be everyone's sin. See Murray, pp. 180-187, for a thorough discussion].

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?

For a dead person is freed from [the control of] sin.

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more power over Him: for as He died, He died once for all on account of sin;

For when he died, he died once and for all as far as sin is concerned. But now that he is alive, he lives for God.

In the same way, you too must continuously consider yourselves dead as far as sin is concerned, but living for God through the Messiah Jesus.

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

For, when ye were servants of sin, ye were free as to righteousness; -

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the Law), that the Law has jurisdiction [to rule] over a person as long as he lives?

For a married woman is bound by the Law to her husband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the Law concerning her husband.

In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.

I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned,

For what the law could not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God has done, who, sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for a sin-offering, condemned sin in the flesh,

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead so far as sin is concerned; but the Spirit is life so far as righteousness is concerned.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

for as it is written, "for thy sake we are sacrificed every day; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter:"

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to His natural descent, came the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), He who is exalted and supreme over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

A potter has the right to do what he wants to with his clay, doesn't he? He can make something for a special occasion or something for ordinary use from the same lump of clay.

What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.

For as a means of righteousness Christ is the termination of Law to every believer.

For a person believes [in Christ] with his heart in order to be made right with God, and he makes a profession with his lips in order to be saved.

And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:

As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.

For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;

For rulers are not a [cause of] terror for a good deed, but for bad [conduct]. So do you want not to be afraid of authority? Do what [is] good, and you will have praise from it,

Then let us no longer judge one another: but rather judge this, not to place before a brother an offence for a stumblingblock.

I know, I am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is in itself unclean; only, anything is unclean for a man who considers it unclean.

Therefore do not let what is right, so far as you are concerned, be evil spoken of.

Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to cause stumbling by what he eats.

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

For my part, as far as you are concerned, my brothers, I am convinced that you are already full of goodness of heart, endowed with perfect knowledge, and well qualified to instruct one another.

in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ;

But now, having no longer any place in these parts and having had for a number of years a great desire to come to you,

whenever I go [on my trip] to Spain—I hope to see you as I pass through [Rome], and to be helped on my journey there by you, after I have first enjoyed your company for a little while.