Romans 1:3-12

³This good message is about the one whom we know as his Son. As to his Son's physical/human nature, he was born a descendant of King David.

⁴As to his divine nature, it was shown { God showed} powerfully that he is ◄God's own Son/the man who is also God►. God showed this by his Holy Spirit causing him to become alive again after he died. He is Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁵He is the one who appointed me, who did not deserve it, to be an apostle. He did that in order that many among the non-Jews would honor him and would obey him as a result of their believing my message about him.

⁶You believers who are living in Rome city are included among those whom God has chosen to belong to Jesus Christ.

⁷I am writing this letter to all of you in Rome whom God loves and whom he has chosen to become his people. I pray that God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord will continue to act kindly toward you and will continue to cause you to have inner peace.

⁸As I begin this letter, I thank my God for all you believers in Rome. It is because of what Jesus Christ has done for us that I am able to do that. I thank him because your trusting in Jesus Christ is something that people all over the Roman Empire HYP are talking about.

⁹God, whom I devotedly serve as I proclaim to people the gospel concerning his Son, knows that I tell the truth when I say that I always mention you whenever DOU I pray to God HYP.

¹⁰I especially ask God that if he desires me to visit you, somehow at last I shall be able to do so.

¹¹I pray this because I long to visit you to help you spiritually, in order that you will become stronger spiritually.

¹²I long to visit you in order that you and I might encourage each other by means of our sharing with each other how each of us trusts in Jesus.