Romans 1:1-17

New American Standard Bible

The Gospel Exalted

1 Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, ^[a]^(A)called as an apostle, ^(B)set apart for ^(C)the gospel of God, ²which He ^(D)promised beforehand through His ^(E)prophets in the holy Scriptures, ³concerning His Son, who was born ^(F)of a ^[b]descendant of David ^(G)according to the flesh, ⁴who was declared ^(H)the Son of God with power according to the ^[c]Spirit of holiness ^[d]by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, ⁵through whom we have received grace and ^(I)apostleship ^[e]to bring about the ^(J)obedience of faith among ^(K)all the Gentiles in behalf of His name, ⁶among whom you also are the ^(L)called of Jesus Christ;

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

⁸First, ^(P)I thank my God through Jesus Christ ^[g]for you all, because ^(Q)your faith is being proclaimed throughout the world. ⁹For ^(R)God, whom I ^(S)serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly ^(T)I make mention of you, ¹⁰always in my prayers requesting if perhaps now, at last by ^(U)the will of God, I will succeed in coming to you. ¹¹For ^(V)I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be ^[h]established; ¹²that 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^(W)I do not want you to be unaware, ^(X)brothers and sisters, that often I ^(Y)have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some ^(Z)fruit among you also just as among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴^(AA)I am ^[i]under obligation both to Greeks and to the ^[j]^(AB)uncultured, both to the wise and to the foolish. ¹⁵So, for my part, I am eager to ^(AC)preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

¹⁶For I am not ^(AD)ashamed of the gospel, for ^(AE)it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the ^(AF)Jew first and also to ^(AG)the Greek. ¹⁷For in it ^(AH)the righteousness of God is revealed ^[k]from faith to faith; as it is written: “^[l]^(AI)But the righteous one will live by faith.”