Romans 1:3-12

³That good news is about his son, Jesus Christ, our leader. He was born as a human baby into King David’s family, but really, he is God’s own son. God showed us in a powerful way that Jesus is his son. He did it like this. People killed Jesus, but God used his Holy Spirit to make him alive again.

⁵God is very good to me. He picked me out to go to all the people that are not Jews to tell them about Jesus, and get them to believe in him and do whatever he says.

⁶You people are not Jews, so God sent me to you too. You heard God call out to you to come to Jesus Christ, so now you belong to him.

⁷I’m sending this letter to all you people that belong to God, and that live in the city called Rome. God called out to you to come and follow him, and to be his people. I pray to God, and to our leader, Jesus Christ. I ask them to show you that they love you, and to make you feel happy and quiet inside yourselves.

⁸The first thing I want to do is to say thank you to my God. Jesus Christ has opened the way for me to talk to God like this. I thank him for all of you Christian mob there. You really believe in Jesus now and people everywhere in the world tell about you to other people.

⁹I pray to God all the time and I ask him to help you. (This is true – God knows it is true.) I work hard for God, I tell everyone the Good News about his son.

¹⁰Whenever I pray to him I ask him to let me come and see you soon, if he agrees to that.

¹¹I have been waiting for a long time. I really want to see you. I want to help you get more power from God to make you strong.

¹²Then I will see how much you trust God and you will see how much I trust God, and this will make all of us happy.