16. I have complete confidence in the gospel; it is God's power to save all who believe, first the Jews and also the Gentiles.
17. For the gospel reveals how God puts people right with himself: it is through faith from beginning to end. As the scripture says, “The person who is put right with God through faith shall live.”
18. God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways prevent the truth from being known.
19. God punishes them, because what can be known about God is plain to them, for God himself made it plain.
20. Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made. So those people have no excuse at all!