Romans

Romans

¹From Paul, servant of our Lord Jesus Christ, an apostle who was called and set apart for the teaching of the gospel of God, ²the gospel he promised long ago through the mouth of his prophets and in his holy scriptures, ³concerning his Son, who was born and came from the line of David in human flesh, ⁴and who was shown to be the Son of God by his power and by his Holy Spirit, when Jesus Christ our Lord rose from the dead. ⁵Through him we received grace and were appointed apostles, so that we might bring the message to the nations and they might believe in his name. ⁶And so you too have now become people called in Jesus Christ. ⁷To all who are in the land of Rome, God's beloved, his chosen and his holy ones: peace to you, and grace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸First, I give thanks to God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is reported throughout the whole world. ⁹God is my witness, the one I serve with all my spirit in the teaching of his Son, that I remember you in my prayers continually. ¹⁰I ask that God, by his will, may open a way for me to come to you. ¹¹For I long to see you, so that you may receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, and so that your hearts may rejoice because you share the faith with me. ¹²I want you to know, brothers, that I have often wanted to come to you, but I have been held back until now. ¹³Even so, I hope to find some fruit among you, as I have among the other nations: among Gentiles and country people, among the wise and the foolish. ¹⁴For I am bound to teach every person. ¹⁵And all the more I am eager to teach you who live in the land of Rome. ¹⁶I am not ashamed to preach his gospel, because it is the power of God that gives life to all who believe in it, to the Jew first and then to the Gentile as well. ¹⁷In it the righteousness and justice of God are revealed, for he makes righteous by faith those who believe in it. As the scripture says, "The righteous will live by faith." ¹⁸The wrath of God comes from heaven on every sinful and wicked person who knows the truth and twists it by wickedness. ¹⁹For the knowledge of God is plain to them; God has shown it to them. ²⁰What cannot be seen of God has been known since the creation of the world through what he made, by reflection and understanding. In this way his eternal power and divinity are known. ²¹So they have nothing to plead in their defense. Although they knew God, they did not praise him and glorify him as God. Instead they dealt falsely with him, became corrupt in their thinking, and their hearts were darkened. ²²While they wanted to be wise, they became fools. ²³They exchanged the glory of the immortal God and made it into an image shaped like mortal man, and like cattle, wild beasts and birds. ²⁴For this reason he handed them over and abandoned them, so that they defiled themselves and degraded their own selves. ²⁵They turned God's truth into a lie. They worshiped and served what was made and forsook the Creator of all things, who is God, blessed forever and ever. Amen. ²⁶For this reason God gave them over to an evil punishment. Their women abandoned their nature and took up what is not natural to them. ²⁷In the same way their men also left their women and burned with lust. They turned to one another, man with man, and did shameful things. But they will receive their penalty, and their error will come back on their own heads. ²⁸Since they did not keep God in their hearts, God in turn gave them a foolish mind, to do what is not fitting. ²⁹They are full of every kind of wickedness, evil, malice and greed. They are full of envy, slanderers, murderers, deceivers and schemers, arrogant, evil in habit and in character, ³⁰gossips, mockers, quarrelers, proud, insulting, rebellious, liars, haters of the Lord, violent, ³¹senseless, faithless, and inventors of evil. ³²They have no mercy, though they themselves know God's judgment, that whoever does such things deserves death. Not only do they do these things themselves, they also entice others and lead them into it. ³³ወአምላከ፡ ሰላም፡ የሀሉ፡ ምስሌክሙ፡ አሜን። *በእንተ፡ አማሕፅኖ* ³⁴ወመኑ፡ የአምር፡ ኅሊናሁ፡ ለእግዚአብሔር፡ ወመኑ፡ ተማከሮ። ³⁵ወመኑ፡ ለቅሖ፡ ወተፈድዮ። ³⁶እስመ፡ ኵሉ፡ እምኔሁ፡ ወኵሉ፡ በእንቲኣሁ፡ ወኵሉ፡ ቦቱ። ወሎቱ፡ ስብሐት፡ ለዓለመ፡ ዓለም፡ አሜን። *ምክር፡ በእንተ፡ ከመ፡ ንረሲ፡ ነፍሰነ፡ መሥዋዕተ፡ ቅዱሰ* ³⁷ወባሕቱ፡ በእንተ፡ ዝ፡ ንመውኦ፡ ለኵሉ፡ እስመ፡ ውእቱ፡ አፍቀረነ። ³⁸እትአመን፡ ባሕቱ፡ ከመ፡ አልቦ፡ ዘያኀድገነ፡ ፍቅሮ፡ ለእግዚአብሔር፡ በኢየሱስ፡ ክርስቶስ፡ እግዚእነ። ኢ፡ ሞት፡ ወኢ፡ ሕይወት፡ ኢ፡ መላእክት፡ ወኢ፡ ቀደምት። ኢ፡ ዘሀሎ፡ ወኢ፡ ዘይመጽእ። ³⁹ኢ፡ ዘኀይል፡ ወኢ፡ ዘልዑል፡ ወኢ፡ ዘጸድፍ። ወኢ፡ ዳግም፡ ልደት፡ ዘመትሕት። አልቦ፡ ዘይክል፡ አኅድጎተነ፡ ፍቅረ፡ ክርስቶስ። *በእንተ፡ ልደቱ፡ ለክርስቶስ፡ እምአበው*