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.