Romans 1:6-32

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁶ among whom you also are the ^(A)called of Jesus Christ;

⁷ to all who are ^(B)beloved of God in Rome, called as ^[a](C)saints: ^(D)Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ First, ^(E)I thank my God through Jesus Christ ^[b]for you all, because ^(F)your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world. ⁹ For ^(G)God, whom I ^(H)serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly ^(I)I make mention of you, ¹⁰ always in my prayers making request, if perhaps now at last by ^(J)the will of God I may succeed in coming to you. ¹¹ For ^(K)I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be ^[c]established; ¹² that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine. ^13 (L)I do not want you to be unaware, ^(M)brethren, that often I ^(N)have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some ^(O)fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles. ^14 (P)I am ^[d]under obligation both to Greeks and to ^(Q)barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. ¹⁵ So, for my part, I am eager to ^(R)preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

¹⁶ For I am not ^(S)ashamed of the gospel, for ^(T)it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the ^(U)Jew first and also to ^(V)the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it ^(W)the righteousness of God is revealed ^[e]from faith to faith; as it is written, “^[f](X)But the righteous man shall live by faith.”

Unbelief and Its Consequences

¹⁸ For ^(Y)the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who ^(Z)suppress the truth ^[g]in unrighteousness, ¹⁹ because ^(AA)that which is known about God is evident ^[h]within them; for God made it evident to them. ²⁰ For ^(AB)since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, ^(AC)being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. ²¹ For even though they knew God, they did not ^[i]honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became ^(AD)futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. ^22 (AE)Professing to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and ^(AF)exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and ^[j]crawling creatures.

²⁴ Therefore ^(AG)God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be ^(AH)dishonored among them. ²⁵ For they exchanged the truth of God for ^[k]a ^(AI)lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, ^(AJ)who is blessed ^[l]forever. Amen.

²⁶ For this reason ^(AK)God gave them over to ^(AL)degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is ^[m]unnatural, ²⁷ and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, ^(AM)men with men committing ^[n]indecent acts and receiving in ^[o]their own persons the due penalty of their error.

²⁸ And just as they did not see fit ^[p]to acknowledge God any longer, ^(AN)God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, ²⁹ being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are ^(AO)gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, ^[q](AP)haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, ^(AQ)disobedient to parents, ³¹ without understanding, untrustworthy, ^(AR)unloving, unmerciful; ³² and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of ^(AS)death, they not only do the same, but also ^(AT)give hearty approval to those who practice them.