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Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. </p> <a name="8" id="8"></a><p class="hdg">Paul's Desire to Visit Rome<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../1_thessalonians/2.htm#17">1 Thessalonians 2:17-20</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>First I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all, because your faith is spoken of in the whole world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual grace, to strengthen you: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>That is to say, that I may be comforted together in you, by that which is common to us both, your faith and mine. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you, (and have been hindered hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise, I am a debtor; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So (as much as is in me) I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are at Rome. </p> <p class="hdg">I am Not Ashamed of the Gospel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and to the Greek. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith. </p> <a name="18" id="18"></a><p class="hdg">God's Wrath against Sin<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../jeremiah/6.htm#10">Jeremiah 6:10-21</a>; <a href="../jeremiah/25.htm#15">Jeremiah 25:15-33</a>; <a href="../jonah/1.htm#4">Jonah 1:4-10</a>; <a href="../acts/27.htm#13">Acts 27:13-26</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; his eternal power also, and divinity: so that they are inexcusable. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God, or given thanks; but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and of creeping things. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/1-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay-Rheims Bible<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../acts/28.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Acts 28"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Acts 28" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../romans/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Romans 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Romans 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/romans/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>