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Paul Greets the Saints in Rome

1Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—

2the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,

3regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,

4and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.

5Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.

6And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.

7To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Unashamed of the Gospel

8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.

9God, whom I serve with my spiritin preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you

10in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God’s will I may succeed in coming to you.

11For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

12that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.

13I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visitinguntil now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

14I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks,both to the wise and the foolish.

15That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

16I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.

17For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish,just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

God’s Wrath against Sin

18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

19For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,

23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise!Amen.

26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

27Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.

祝福

1耶稣基督的仆人保罗，奉召为使徒，特派传 神的福音。

2这福音是 神从前借众先知在圣经上所应许的，

3论到他儿子—我主耶稣基督。按肉体说，是从大卫后裔生的；

4按圣善的灵说，因从死里复活，以大能显明是 神的儿子。

5我们从他受了恩惠并使徒的职分，在万国之中叫人为他的名信服真道；

6其中也有你们这蒙召属耶稣基督的人。

7我写信给你们在罗马、为 神所爱、奉召作圣徒的众人。愿恩惠、平安从我们的父 神并主耶稣基督归与你们！

保罗有意访问罗马

8第一，我靠着耶稣基督，为你们众人感谢我的 神，因你们的信德传遍了天下。

9我在他儿子福音上，用心灵所事奉的 神可以见证，我怎样不住地提到你们；

10在祷告之间常常恳求，或者照 神的旨意，终能得平坦的道路往你们那里去。

11因为我切切地想见你们，要把些属灵的恩赐分给你们，使你们可以坚固；

12这样，我在你们中间，因你与我彼此的信心，就可以同得安慰。

13弟兄们，我不愿意你们不知道，我屡次定意往你们那里去，要在你们中间得些果子，如同在其余的外邦人中一样；只是到如今仍有阻隔。

14无论是希腊人、化外人、聪明人、愚拙人，我都欠他们的债，

15所以情愿尽我的力量，将福音也传给你们在罗马的人。

福音是 神的大能

16我不以福音为耻；这福音本是 神的大能，要救一切相信的，先是犹太人，后是希腊人。

17因为 神的义正在这福音上显明出来；这义是本于信，以至于信。如经上所记：「义人必因信得生。」

人类的罪恶

18原来， 神的忿怒从天上显明在一切不虔不义的人身上，就是那些行不义阻挡真理的人。

19神的事情，人所能知道的，原显明在人心里，因为 神已经给他们显明。

20自从造天地以来， 神的永能和神性是明明可知的，虽是眼不能见，但借着所造之物就可以晓得，叫人无可推诿。

21因为，他们虽然知道 神，却不当作 神荣耀他，也不感谢他。他们的思念变为虚妄，无知的心就昏暗了。

22自称为聪明，反成了愚拙，

23将不能朽坏之 神的荣耀变为偶像，仿佛必朽坏的人和飞禽、走兽、昆虫的样式。

24所以， 神任凭他们逞着心里的情欲行污秽的事，以致彼此玷辱自己的身体。

25他们将 神的真实变为虚谎，去敬拜事奉受造之物，不敬奉那造物的主—主乃是可称颂的，直到永远。阿们！

26因此， 神任凭他们放纵可羞耻的情欲。他们的女人把顺性的用处变为逆性的用处；

27男人也是如此，弃了女人顺性的用处，欲火攻心，彼此贪恋，男和男行可羞耻的事，就在自己身上受这妄为当得的报应。

28他们既然故意不认识 神， 神就任凭他们存邪僻的心，行那些不合理的事；

29装满了各样不义、邪恶、贪婪、恶毒；满心是嫉妒、凶杀、争竞、诡诈、毒恨；

30又是谗毁的、背后说人的、怨恨 神的、侮慢人的、狂傲的、自夸的、捏造恶事的、违背父母的、

31无知的、背约的、无亲情的、不怜悯人的。

32他们虽知道 神判定行这样事的人是当死的，然而他们不但自己去行，还喜欢别人去行。