5. through whom we have received grace and Apostleship, for the sake of his name, for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles,
6. from whom you also have been called by Jesus Christ:
7. To all who are at Rome, the beloved of God, called as saints. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
8. Certainly, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, first for all of you, because your faith is being announced throughout the entire world.
9. For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit by the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I have kept a remembrance of you
10. always in my prayers, pleading that in some way, at some time, I may have a prosperous journey, within the will of God, to come to you.
11. For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you a certain spiritual grace to strengthen you,
12. specifically, to be consoled together with you through that which is mutual: your faith and mine.
13. But I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you, (though I have been hindered even to the present time) so that I might obtain some fruit among you also, just as also among the other Gentiles.
14. To the Greeks and to the uncivilized, to the wise and to the foolish, I am in debt.
15. So within me there is a prompting to evangelize to you also who are at Rome.
16. For I am not ashamed of the Gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation for all believers, the Jew first, and the Greek.
17. For the justice of God is revealed within it, by faith unto faith, just as it was written: "For the just one lives by faith."
18. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven over every impiety and injustice among those men who fend off the truth of God with injustice.
19. For what is known about God is manifest in them. For God has manifested it to them.
20. For unseen things about him have been made conspicuous, since the creation of the world, being understood by the things that were made; likewise his everlasting virtue and divinity, so much so that they have no excuse.
21. For although they had known God, they did not glorify God, nor give thanks. Instead, they became weakened in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was obscured.