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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Romans

Third Edition 1913

R. F. Weymouth

Book 45 Romans

001:001 Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, set apart to proclaim God's Good News,

001:002 which God had already promised through His Prophets in Holy Writ, concerning His Son,

001:003 who, as regards His human descent, belonged to the posterity of David,

001:004 but as regards the holiness of His Spirit was decisively proved by His Resurrection to be the Son of God--I mean concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

001:005 through whom we have received grace and Apostleship in His service in order to win men to obedience to the faith, among all Gentile peoples,

001:006 among whom you also, called, as you have been, to belong to Jesus Christ, are numbered:

001:007 To all God's loved ones who are in Rome, called to be saints. May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

001:008 First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for what He has done for all of you; for the report of your faith is spreading through the whole world.

001:009 I call God to witness--to whom I render priestly and spiritual service by telling the Good News about His Son--how unceasingly I make mention of you in His presence,

001:010 always in my prayers entreating that now, at length, if such be His will, the way may by some means be made clear for me to come to you.

001:011 For I am longing to see you, in order to convey to you some spiritual help, so that you may be strengthened;

001:012 in other words that while I am among you we may be mutually encouraged by one another's faith, yours and mine.

001:013 And I desire you to know, brethren, that I have many a time intended to come to you--though until now I have been disappointed-- in order that among you also I might gather some fruit from my labours, as I have already done among the rest of the Gentile nations.

001:014 I am already under obligations alike to Greek-speaking races and to others, to cultured and to uncultured people:

001:015 so that for my part I am willing and eager to proclaim the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

001:016 For I am not ashamed of the Good News. It is God's power which is at work for the salvation of every one who believes-- the Jew first, and then the Gentile.

001:017 For in the Good News a righteousness which comes from God is being revealed, depending on faith and tending to produce faith; as the Scripture has it, "The righteous man shall live by faith."

001:018 For God's anger is being revealed from Heaven against all impiety and against the iniquity of men who through iniquity suppress the truth. God is angry:

001:019 because what may be known about Him is plain to their inmost consciousness; for He Himself has made it plain to them.

001:020 For, from the very creation of the world, His invisible perfections-- namely His eternal power and divine nature--have been rendered intelligible and clearly visible by His works, so that these men are without excuse.

001:021 For when they had come to know God, they did not give Him glory as God nor render Him thanks, but they became absorbed in useless discussions, and their senseless minds were darkened.

001:022 While boasting of their wisdom they became utter fools,

001:023 and, instead of worshipping the imperishable God, they worshipped images resembling perishable man or resembling birds or beasts or reptiles.