3-4. The Good News is about God’s Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. As a man, he was born from the family of David. But through the Spirit of holiness he was declared to be God’s Son with great power by rising from death.
5. Through Christ, God gave me the special work of an apostle. This was to lead people of all nations to believe and obey. I do this work for Christ.
6. And you who are in Rome are also called to belong to Jesus Christ.
7. This letter is to all of you in Rome whom God loves and has called to be his holy people.May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ show you kindness and give you peace.
8. First I want to say that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you. I thank God because people everywhere in the world are talking about your great faith.
9-10. God knows that every time I pray I always mention you. God is the One I serve with my whole heart by telling the Good News about his Son. I pray that I will be allowed to come to you, and this will happen if God wants it.
30. and say evil things about each other. They hate God. They are rude and conceited and brag about themselves. They invent ways of doing evil. They do not obey their parents.
31. They are foolish, they do not keep their promises, and they show no kindness or mercy to other people.
32. They know God’s law says that those who live like this should die. But they continue to do these evil things. And they also feel that those who do these things are doing right.