1 Paul, a servant¹ of Christ Jesus, ^acalled to be an apostle, ^bset apart for the ^cgospel of God, 2 which he ^dpromised beforehand ^ethrough his prophets ^fin the holy Scriptures, 3 concerning his Son, who was ^gdescended from David² according to the flesh 4 and was ^hdeclared to be the ⁱSon of God ^jin power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, 5 ^kthrough whom we have received grace and ^lapostleship to bring about the ^mobedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, 6 including you who are ⁿcalled to belong to Jesus Christ,

7 To all those in Rome who are loved by God and ^ocalled to be ^psaints:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

8 First, ^qI thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because ^ryour faith is proclaimed in all the world. 9 For ^sGod is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that ^twithout ceasing I mention you 10 always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God’s will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. 11 ^uFor I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual ^vgift to ^wstrengthen you— 12 that is, that we may ^xbe mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,³ that I have often intended to come to you (but ^ythus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some ^zharvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. 14 ^aI am under obligation both to Greeks and to ^bbarbarians,^{4 c}both to the wise and to the foolish. 15 So I am eager ^dto preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

16 For I am not ^eashamed of the gospel, for it is the ^fpower of God for salvation to everyone who believes, ^gto the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the ^hrighteousness of God is ⁱrevealed from faith for faith,⁵ as it is written, ^j“The righteous shall live by faith.”⁶