13. I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that I planned to visit you many times, although I have been prevented from coming until now. I want to harvest some fruit among you, just as I have done among the other Gentiles.
14. I have a responsibility both to Greeks and to those who don’t speak Greek, both to the wise and to the foolish.
15. That’s why I’m ready to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.
16. I’m not ashamed of the gospel: it is God’s own power for salvation to all who have faith in God, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
17. God’s righteousness is being revealed in the gospel, from faithfulness for faith, as it is written, The righteous person will live by faith.
18. God’s wrath is being revealed from heaven against all the ungodly behavior and the injustice of human beings who silence the truth with injustice.
19. This is because what is known about God should be plain to them because God made it plain to them.