Romans:1

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* I am Paul , a servant of Jesus Christ . He called me to be an apostle and to tell Gods good news . * Through his prophets long ago God promised this good news to people , in the holy writings . * The good news was about his Son . He is Jesus Christ our Lord . He was a man born in Davids family . * He came alive from death . That showed he was Gods Son . He had Gods power . Gods Holy Spirit did all this . * This same Jesus Christ was kind to me . And he made me an apostle . I am sent in his name so that people in all nations will obey him . * You are some of them . You were called to belong to Jesus Christ . * I send greetings to all the Christians who live in the city of Rome . God loves you and has called you to be his people . May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you . In their kindness may they give you peace . * People in all the world have heard that you believe . I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you . * God knows that I always talk to him about you . I worship him in my heart while I tell the good news about his Son . * I ask God that in some way now I may be able to visit you , if he wishes me to do it . * I want very much to see you . I want to give you some gift from the Holy Spirit to make you stronger . * I mean to say that we will both be helped . I will be helped because you believe , and you will be helped because I believe . * My brothers , I want you to know that I have often planned to come to you . But something has stopped me until now . I planned to come so that I might see good things happen among you . I have done this in the other nations which are not Jewish . * This is something I must do for the Greek people and for all other people . I must do it for people who are wise and for people who are not wise . * That is why I want so much to tell the good news to you people in the city of Rome also . * I am not ashamed of the good news of Jesus Christ . The good news is the power God uses to save every one who believes . The good news was for the Jews first , but also for those who are not Jews . * The good news shows how God puts a person right . God puts a person right when that person believes in his Son and keeps on believing . The holy writings say , A person who is put right because he believes , will live for ever . * God is angry . He has shown it from heaven . He is angry because of all the bad and wrong things people do . These people hold back Gods truth by the wrong things they do . * They know about God . God himself has shown them . * People cannot see that God has power which lasts for ever . They cannot see that he is really God . But ever since he made the world , he has clearly shown this by the things he made . So they cannot say , I did not know about God . * Even though they knew he was God , they did not worship him as God . They did not thank him . Their thoughts were no good . Their foolish minds became dark . * They said they were wise people , but they were foolish people . * They did not worship God who cannot die . But they worshipped things made to look like a man who does die . They worshipped things made to look like birds and animals and snakes . * So God left them to do the things their hearts wanted to do . They did the things that are not right to do with their bodies . They did not respect their own bodies . * They would not believe what was true about God . They believed a lie . They worshipped and worked for something that was made by God . They did not worship God-God who made all things . He is the one to worship for ever . Amen . May it be so ! * That is why God left them to do the wrong things they wanted to do . Their women left the right way for women and did things that are wrong for women to do . * Their men also left the right way with women . They wanted to have sex with one another . They did wrong things with other men . Their own bodies were punished because of the wrong things they did . * They did not want to know God . So he left them to their wrong thoughts and to do things that are not right . * They were very bad . They did every kind of wrong thing . They were greedy . They hated people . They were very jealous . They killed many people . They fought . They fooled people . They told lies about people . They carried stories from one person to another . * They said wrong things about people . They hated God . They did not respect people . They were proud . They talked big . They even thought of new wrong things to do . They did not obey their parents . bwe @Romans:1:31 @.They were foolish . They did not do what they said they would do . They did not love people . They were not kind . * They know that God says that people who do such things should die . Even so , they not only do them , but they praise other people who do them .

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