Sure.
1 This is from Paul, a slave of the Anointed One Yesu, who has
been called to be a dispatched envoy, having been cut off for God's
Good Message, 2 that He promised beforehand through His prophets in
the Pure Writings, 3 about His Son who, according to the flesh, came
from David's seed, 4 and who, according to the Spirit of Purity, was
designated the Son of God with power by His resurrection from among
the dead: Yesu (the Anointed One) our Master, 5 through whom we have
obtained favor and our responsibility of being envoys dispatched so that
there might be obedience to the Faith among all the pagans, on behalf of
His name ["Yesu"], 6 among whom you also are the Called Ones who
belong to Yesu (the Anointed One); 7 to all who are God's dearly loved
ones in Rome, the Called and Pure Ones.
May favor and peace be yours+ from God our Father and the
Master Yesu (the Anointed One)!
8 First of all, I am continually thanking my God through Yesu
(the Anointed One) for all of you, because your faith is continually
being announced throughout the whole world. 9 For God, to whom I am
continually offering divine '~ervice with my spirit by spreading the Good
Message about His Son, is my witness of how I am continually making
mention of you without ceasing, 10 always in my prayers petitioning that
if somehow it is what God wants, that I might now at last be prospered
to come·to you. For am desiringto see you+, so that I might share
some spiritual favor with you, so that you might be solidly established;
12 that is, so that while I am among you, I might be encouraged together
with you+ by means of each other's faith, both yours+ and mine.
13 Now I don't want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, that
often I have determined to come to you (and have been prevented even
until now), so that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among
the rest of the pagans. 14 I am a debtor to both Greek-speaking and
non-Greek-speaking people, to both the wise and the foolish; 15 this is
why, for my part, I have this eagerness to spread the Good Message also
to you who are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the Good Message,
for it is God's power for the Salvation [from Destruction] of everyone
who is continually having faith in it (to the Jew first, and also to the
non-Jew). 17 For in it is revealed God's method for making people right
[and just] before Him, a method that is based on faith and results in faith;
just as it has been written, "Now the person who is just [and right], must
be continually living on the basis of faith!" [Hab. 2:41.
18 For God's anger is being revealed from heaven against all the
lack of devotion and injustice of the humans who are holding back the
Truth by their injustice, 19 since what is known about God is apparent to
them, because God has made it apparent to them. 20 For ever since the
creation of the world, His invisible attributes,· His constant power and
godly nature, have been clearly seen, since they can be comprehended
through the things that He has made, so that they are without a defense.
21 For although they knew God, they didn't glorify Him as God or
give Him thanks; rather, they became involved in their meaningless
reasonings, and their unintelligent hearts became clouded with darkness.
22 Asserting that they were wise, they became stupid, 23 and exchanged
the glory of the nondecaying God for images having the likeness of
things that are subject to decay: humans, birds, four-legged animals, and
reptiles.
24 For this reason God delivered them over to the uncleanliness
that is in the desires of their hearts, to be dishonoring their bodies
among themselves. 25 For they exchanged God's Truth for a lie, and
were devoted to and offered. divine service to the creature rather than
·the Creator, who is blessed for the remaining ages [the present age and the
Last Age]. Amen ["let it be true")!
26 For this reason God delivered them over to dishonorable
passions, so that their females exchanged their natural use for an
unnatural one. 27 Likewise, their males also left the natural use of the
female, and became inflamed in their craving for one another, males with
males practicing acts that aren't respectable, and getting back for themselves
the repayment that they ought to have for their going astray.
28 Now as they didn't approve of continually acknowledging God
fully, God delivered them over to having disapproved minds, to be doing
those things that aren't suitable, 29 being filled with all kinds of injustice,
wickedness, badness, and greed. They are bulging with envy, murder,
conflict, fraud, and bad attitudes. 30 They are gossipers, speakers
against one another, detesters of God, those filled with outrage, proud,
arrogant, inventors of bad things, unpersuadable by their parents,
31 unintelligent, failing to fulfill agreements, without natural affection,
and unmerciful. 32 Although they know full well about God's just
Sentence, that those who are practicing such things deserve Death
[in the Fiery Destruction of the Second Death*], they are not only
continually doing them, but also are continually approving of those who
are practicing them.
