Romans 1

¹Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

²Of which God had given word before by his prophets in the holy Writings,

³About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David,

⁴But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,

⁵Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:

⁶Among whom you in the same way have been marked out to be disciples of Jesus Christ:

⁷To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.

⁹For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,

¹⁰And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.

¹¹For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

¹²That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.

¹³You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.