Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I intended to come to you, and was prevented until now, in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as also among the rest of the Gentiles.

because what can be known about God is evident among them, for God made [it] clear to them.

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,

(just as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") before God, in whom he believed, the one who makes the dead alive and who calls the things that are not as [though] they are,

For only rarely will someone die on behalf of a righteous person (for on behalf of a good person possibly someone might even dare to die),

For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.

Therefore, [did that which is] good become death to me? May it never be! Rather [it was] sin, in order that it might be recognized [as] sin, producing death through [what is] good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment.

for [although they] had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain,

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very [reason] I have raised you up, so that I may demonstrate my power in you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

For Christ died and became alive again for this [reason], in order that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

[It is] good not to eat meat or to drink wine or [to do anything] by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weakened.