11. I want very much to see you, to give you some spiritual gift to make you strong.
12. I mean that I want us to help each other with the faith we have. Your faith will help me, and my faith will help you.
13. Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that I planned many times to come to you, but this has not been possible. I wanted to come so that I could help you grow spiritually as I have helped the other non-Jewish people.
14. I have a duty to all people—Greeks and those who are not Greeks, the wise and the foolish.
15. That is why I want so much to preach the Good News to you in Rome.
16. I am not ashamed of the Good News, because it is the power God uses to save everyone who believes—to save the Jews first, and then to save non-Jews.
17. The Good News shows how God makes people right with himself—that it begins and ends with faith. As the Scripture says, “But those who are right with God will live by faith.”
18. God’s anger is shown from heaven against all the evil and wrong things people do. By their own evil lives they hide the truth.
19. God shows his anger because some knowledge of him has been made clear to them. Yes, God has shown himself to them.
20. There are things about him that people cannot see—his eternal power and all the things that make him God. But since the beginning of the world those things have been easy to understand by what God has made. So people have no excuse for the bad things they do.
21. They knew God, but they did not give glory to God or thank him. Their thinking became useless. Their foolish minds were filled with darkness.