Romans 1:10-22

¹⁰And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.

¹¹For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

¹²That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.

¹³You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

¹⁴I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.

¹⁵For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome.

¹⁶For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.

¹⁷For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.

¹⁸For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;

¹⁹Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.

²⁰For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

²¹Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

²²Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,