Salutation

From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.

who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.

To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, both yours and mine.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

He will reward each one according to his works:

on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the letter. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.

just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus’ faithfulness.

Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin.”

but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

The Expectation of Justification

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,