Romans 1 - LSB Bible Online

Romans 1

The Gospel Exalted

Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, ¹^acalled as an apostle, having been ^bset apart for ^cthe gospel of God, 2 which He ^apromised beforehand through His ^bprophets in the holy Scriptures, 3 concerning His Son, who was born ^aof the seed of David ^baccording to the flesh, 4 who was designated as ^athe Son of God in power, according to the ¹Spirit of holiness, ²by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, 5 through whom we received grace and ^aapostleship for the ^bobedience of faith among ^call the Gentiles for the sake of His name, 6 among whom you also are the ^acalled of Jesus Christ;
7 to all who are ^abeloved of God in Rome, called as ¹^bsaints: ^cGrace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, ^aI thank my God through Jesus Christ ¹for you all, because ^byour faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world. 9 For ^aGod, whom I ^bserve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how without ceasing ^cI make mention of you, 10 always in my prayers earnestly asking, if perhaps now at last by ^athe will of God I may succeed in coming to you. 11 For ^aI long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be strengthened; 12 that is, to be mutually encouraged, while among you, by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. 13 ^aI do not want you to be unaware, ^bbrothers, that often I ^chave planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may have some ^dfruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles. 14 ^aI am ¹under obligation both to Greeks and to ^bbarbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. 15 In this way, for my part, I am eager to ^aproclaim the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ^aashamed of the gospel, for ^bit is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the ^cJew first and also to ^dthe Greek. 17 For in it ^athe righteousness of God is revealed ¹from faith to faith; as it is written, “²^bBut the righteous will live by faith.”

God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness

18 For ^athe wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who ^bsuppress the truth ¹in unrighteousness, 19 because ^athat which is known about God is evident ¹within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For ^asince the creation of the world His invisible attributes, both His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, ^bbeing understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks, but they became ^afutile in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 ^aProfessing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and ^aexchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the likeness of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
24 Therefore ^aGod gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be ^bdishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for ¹a ^alie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, ^bwho is blessed ²forever. Amen.
26 For this reason ^aGod gave them over to ^bdishonorable passions; for their ^cfemales exchanged the natural function for that which is ¹unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the ^amales abandoned the natural function of the female and burned in their desire toward one another, ^bmales with males committing ¹indecent acts and receiving in ²their own persons the due penalty of their error.
28 And just as they did not see fit ¹to acknowledge God, ^aGod gave them over to an unfit mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are ^agossips, 30 slanderers, ¹^ahaters of God, violent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, ^bdisobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, ^aunloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the righteous requirement of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of ^adeath, they not only do the same, but also ^bgive hearty approval to those who practice them.

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