Romans 1:13-29

¹³But I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, though I have been hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit of my labors among you also, as among the other gentiles.

¹⁴I am debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, both to the wise and the unwise.

¹⁵So, according to my ability, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also in Rome.

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for to every believer, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, it is the power of God unto salvation.

¹⁷For therein is revealed the righteousness which is of God from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of men, who keep down the truth in unrighteousness.

¹⁹Because that which may be known of God is manifest within them; for God made it manifest to them.

²⁰For, ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, even his eternal power and divinity, being perceived from his works, are clearly seen, so that they might be without excuse.

²¹Because though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful to him; but became perverse in their reasonings, and their senseless minds were darkened;

²²professing to be wise, they became fools,

²³and for the glory of the incorruptible God they substituted images of corruptible man, and of birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

²⁴Wherefore God also gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to debase their bodies with one another;

²⁵because they changed the true God for false gods, and adored and worshipped created things rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

²⁶For this cause God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women indulged in unnatural lust,

²⁷and in like manner the men also, neglecting the natural use of the female, burned with lust for one another, men with men practising that which is shameful, and receiving in themselves the due recompense of their error.

²⁸And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are shameful;

²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, malice, covetousness, wickedness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; backbiters,