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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Romans 1 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Romans 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/28.htm" title="Acts 28">◄</a> Romans 1 <a href="../romans/2.htm" title="Romans 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/romans/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Greetings from Paul</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This letter is from Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, chosen by God to be an apostle and sent out to preach his Good News. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>God promised this Good News long ago through his prophets in the holy Scriptures. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The Good News is about his Son. In his earthly life he was born into King David’s family line, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and he was shown to be<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> the Son of God when he was raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> He is Jesus Christ our Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Through Christ, God has given us the privilege<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> and authority as apostles to tell Gentiles everywhere what God has done for them, so that they will believe and obey him, bringing glory to his name.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And you are included among those Gentiles who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I am writing to all of you in Rome who are loved by God and are called to be his own holy people.</p><p class="reg">May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.</p><p class="hdg">God’s Good News</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let me say first that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith in him is being talked about all over the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heart<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> by spreading the Good News about his Son.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>One of the things I always pray for is the opportunity, God willing, to come at last to see you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For I long to visit you so I can bring you some spiritual gift that will help you grow strong in the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When we get together, I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> that I planned many times to visit you, but I was prevented until now. I want to work among you and see spiritual fruit, just as I have seen among other Gentiles. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For I have a great sense of obligation to people in both the civilized world and the rest of the world,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> to the educated and uneducated alike. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So I am eager to come to you in Rome, too, to preach the Good News.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a></p><p class="hdg">God’s Anger at Sin</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">i</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/1-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:4a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">and was designated.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:4b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">by the Spirit of holiness;</span><span class="ft"> or </span><span class="it">in the new realm of the Spirit.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the grace.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">in my spirit.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:13 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">brothers.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:14 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">to Greeks and barbarians.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:16 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">also the Greek.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">“The righteous will live by faith.”</span><span class="ft"> Hab 2:4.</span><br><span class="fn">i</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">who, by their wickedness, prevent the truth from being known.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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