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Romans
Darby Bible Translation → New Living Translation

Paul, bondman of Jesus Christ, [a] called apostle, separated to God's glad tidings,

This letter is from Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, chosen by God to be an apostle and sent out to preach his Good News.

(which he had before promised by his prophets in holy writings,)

God promised this Good News long ago through his prophets in the holy Scriptures.

concerning his Son (come of David's seed according to flesh,

The Good News is about his Son. In his earthly life he was born into King David’s family line,

marked out Son of God in power, according to [the] Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of [the] dead) Jesus Christ our Lord;

and he was shown to bea the Son of God when he was raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit.b He is Jesus Christ our Lord.

by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,

Through Christ, God has given us the privilegec and authority as apostles to tell Gentiles everywhere what God has done for them, so that they will believe and obey him, bringing glory to his name.

among whom are ye also [the] called of Jesus Christ:

And you are included among those Gentiles who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ.

to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and [our] Lord Jesus Christ.

I am writing to all of you in Rome who are loved by God and are called to be his own holy people. May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

Let me say first that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith in him is being talked about all over the world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heartd by spreading the Good News about his Son.

always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

One of the things I always pray for is the opportunity, God willing, to come at last to see you.

For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to establish you;

For I long to visit you so I can bring you some spiritual gift that will help you grow strong in the Lord.

that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the faith [which is] in the other, both yours and mine.

When we get together, I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours.

But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.

I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters,e that I planned many times to visit you, but I was prevented until now. I want to work among you and see spiritual fruit, just as I have seen among other Gentiles.

I am a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, both to wise and unintelligent:

For I have a great sense of obligation to people in both the civilized world and the rest of the world,f to the educated and uneducated alike.

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

So I am eager to come to you in Rome, too, to preach the Good News.

For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek:

For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes — the Jew first and also the Gentile.g

for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the principle of faith, to faith: according as it is written, But the just shall live by faith.

This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”h

For there is revealed wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety, and unrighteousness of men holding the truth in unrighteousness.

But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness.i

Because what is known of God is manifest among them, for God has manifested [it] to them,

They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them.

-- for from [the] world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, -- so as to render them inexcusable.

For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.

Because, knowing God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:

Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.

professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into [the] likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.

And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.

Wherefore God gave them up [also] in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:

So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies.

who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created [it], who is blessed for ever. Amen.

They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.

For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;

That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.

and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.

And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.

And according as they did not think good to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;

Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.

back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents.

void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful;

They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy.

who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do [them].

They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.

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