Romans 1 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Salutation

1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,(A)3 the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh(B)4 and was declared to be Son of God with power according to the spirit[a] of holiness by resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,(C)5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the gentiles for the sake of his name,(D)6 including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,

7 To all God’s beloved in Rome, who are called to be saints:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.(E)

Prayer of Thanksgiving

8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the world.(F)9 For God, whom I serve with my spirit by announcing the gospel[b] of his Son, is my witness that without ceasing I remember you always in my prayers,(G)10 asking that by God’s will I may somehow at last succeed in coming to you. 11 For I long to see you so that I may share with you some spiritual gift so that you may be strengthened—12 or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you, as I have among the rest of the gentiles. 14 I am obligated both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish, 15 hence my eagerness to proclaim the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

The Power of the Gospel

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is God’s saving power for everyone who believes,[c] for the Jew first and also for the Greek.(H)17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith, as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”[d](I)

The Guilt of Humankind

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those who by their injustice suppress the truth.(J)19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 Ever since the creation of the world God’s eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been seen and understood through the things God has made. So they are without excuse,(K)21 for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless hearts were darkened.(L)22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.(M)

24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.(N)25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.(O)

26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their females exchanged natural intercourse[e] for unnatural,(P)27 and in the same way also the males, giving up natural intercourse[f] with females, were consumed with their passionate desires for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.(Q)

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.(R)29 They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters,[g] insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents,(S)31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.(T)32 They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice them.(U)

Footnotes

  1. 1.4Or Spirit
  2. 1.9Gk my spirit in the gospel
  3. 1.16Or trusts
  4. 1.17Or The one who is righteous through faith will live
  5. 1.26Gk use
  6. 1.27Gk use
  7. 1.30Or God-hated

Cross references

  1. 1.2 : Acts 26.6; Gal 3.8
  2. 1.3 : Jn 1.14
  3. 1.4 : Acts 13.33; Heb 9.14
  4. 1.5 : Acts 6.7; 9.15; Gal 1.16
  5. 1.7 : 1 Cor 1.2, 3; Gal 1; 3; Eph 1.2
  6. 1.8 : Rom 16.19; Phil 1.3
  7. 1.9 : Acts 24.14; Eph 1.16; Phil 1.8
  8. 1.16 : Acts 3.26; Rom 2.9; 1 Cor 1.18; 2 Tim 1.8
  9. 1.17 : Rom 3.21; Gal 3.11; Heb 10.38
  10. 1.18 : Eph 5.6; Col 3.6
  11. 1.20 : Ps 19.1–6
  12. 1.21 : Jer 2.5; Eph 4.17, 18
  13. 1.23 : Ps 106.20; Jer 2.11; Acts 17.29
  14. 1.24 : Eph 4.18, 19; 1 Pet 4.3
  15. 1.25 : Isa 44.20; Jer 10.14; Rom 9.5
  16. 1.26 : Lev 18.22; Eph 4.19; 1 Thess 4.5
  17. 1.27 : Lev 18.22; 20.13
  18. 1.28 : Eph 4.19
  19. 1.30 : Ps 5.5; 2 Tim 3.2
  20. 1.31 : 2 Tim 3.3
  21. 1.32 : Acts 8.1; 22.20; Rom 6.21

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