Romans 1:1-7 - Greeting

¹ Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, set apart to proclaim God's Good News, ² which God had already promised through His Prophets in Holy Writ, concerning His Son, ³ who, as regards His human descent, belonged to the posterity of David, ⁴ but as regards the holiness of His Spirit was decisively proved by His Resurrection to be the Son of God--I mean concerning Jesus Christ our Lord, ⁵ through whom we have received grace and Apostleship in His service in order to win men to obedience to the faith, among all Gentile peoples, ⁶ among whom you also, called, as you have been, to belong to Jesus Christ, are numbered:

⁷ To all God's loved ones who are in Rome, called to be saints. May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul, called to be an Apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God--and our brother Sosthenes:

² To the Church of God in Corinth, men and women consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ-- their Lord as well as ours.

³ May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God--and our brother Timothy: To the Church of God in Corinth, with all God's people throughout Greece. ² May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul, an Apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from among the dead-- ² and all the brethren who are with me: To the Churches of Galatia.

³ May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴ who gave Himself to suffer for our sins in order to rescue us from the present wicked age in accordance with the will of our God and Father. ⁵ To Him be the glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God: To God's people who are in Ephesus--believers in Christ Jesus.

² May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Christ Jesus: To all God's people in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the ministers of the Church and their assistants.

² May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God--and Timothy our brother:

² To the people of God and the believing brethren at Colossae who are in Christ. May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father.

¹ Paul, Silas, and Timothy: To the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be granted to you.

¹ Paul, Silas, and Timothy: To the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope:

² To Timothy, my own true son in the faith. May grace, mercy and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, for proclaiming the promise of the Life which is in Christ Jesus:

² To Timothy my dearly-loved child. May grace, mercy and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹ Paul, a bondservant of God and an Apostle of Jesus Christ for building up the faith of God's own people and spreading a full knowledge of the truths of religion, ² in hope of the Life of the Ages which God, who is never false to His word, promised before the commencement of the Ages. ³ And at the appointed time He clearly made known His Message in the preaching with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Saviour:

⁴ To Titus my own true child in our common faith. May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

¹ James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: to the twelve tribes who are scattered over the world. All good wishes.

¹ Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ: To God's own people scattered over the earth, who are living as foreigners in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Roman Asia, and Bithynia, ² chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, with a view to their obedience and to their being sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. May more and more grace and peace be granted to you.

¹ Simon Peter, a bondservant and Apostle of Jesus Christ: To those to whom there has been allotted the same precious faith as that which is ours through the righteousness of our God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ. ² May more and more grace and peace be granted to you in a full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

³ seeing that His divine power has given us all things that are needful for life and godliness, through our knowledge of Him who has appealed to us by His own glorious perfections. ⁴ It is by means of these that He has granted us His precious and wondrous promises, in order that through them you may, one and all, become sharers in the very nature of God, having completely escaped the corruption which exists in the world through earthly cravings. ⁵ But for this very reason--adding, on your part, all earnestness-- along with your faith, manifest also a noble character: along with a noble character, knowledge; ⁶ along with knowledge, self-control; along with self-control, power of endurance; ⁷ along with power of endurance, godliness; along with godliness, brotherly affection; and along with brotherly affection, love.