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Romans 1:15-17
New Catholic Bible
Romans 1:15-17
New Catholic Bible
15 Thus, I am ready to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.
The Gospel of God[a]
16 Power of Salvation for All Believers. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, since it is the power of God that offers salvation to everyone who has faith—to Jews first, and then to Gentiles as well. 17 In it the righteousness of God is revealed, beginning in faith and established in faith.[b] As it is written: “The one who is righteous will live through faith.”
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- Romans 1:16 This extremely dense paragraph sums up the entire Letter. When we hear the word “gospel” we should not think of a book, but of the proclamation of salvation through faith. The citation in v. 17 from the prophet Habakkuk (2:4), each word of which here takes on a Christian value, constitutes the theological pivot of the entire Letter.
- Romans 1:17 Beginning in faith and established in faith: literally, “from faith to faith,” i.e., by an ever more perfect faith. But other interpretations have been given.
