1 From Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus and an apostle chosen and called by God to preach his Good News.
2 The Good News was promised long ago by God through his prophets, as written in the Holy Scriptures. 3 It is about his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: as to his humanity, he was born a descendant of David; 4 as to his divine holiness, he was shown with great power to be the Son of God by being raised from death. 5 Through him God gave me the privilege of being an apostle for the sake of Christ, in order to lead people of all nations to believe and obey. 6 This also includes you who are in Rome, whom God has called to belong to Jesus Christ.
7 And so I write to all of you in Rome whom God loves and has called to be his own people:
May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
Prayer of Thanksgiving
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because the whole world is hearing about your faith. 9 God is my witness that what I say is true—the God whom I serve with all my heart by preaching the Good News about his Son. God knows that I remember you 10 every time I pray. I ask that God in his good will may at last make it possible for me to visit you now. 11 For I want very much to see you, in order to share a spiritual blessing with you to make you strong. 12 What I mean is that both you and I will be helped at the same time, you by my faith and I by yours.
13 You must remember, my friends, that many times I have planned to visit you, but something has always kept me from doing so. I want to win converts among you also, as I have among other Gentiles. 14 For I have an obligation to all peoples, to the civilized and to the savage, to the educated and to the ignorant. 15 So then, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who live in Rome.
The Power of the Gospel
16 I have complete confidence in the gospel; it is God's power to save all who believe, first the Jews and also the Gentiles. 17 For the gospel reveals how God puts people right with himself: it is through faith from beginning to end. As the scripture says, “The person who is put right with God through faith shall live.”
Human Guilt
18 God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways prevent the truth from being known. 19 God punishes them, because what can be known about God is plain to them, for God himself made it plain. 20 Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made. So those people have no excuse at all! 21 They know God, but they do not give him the honor that belongs to him, nor do they thank him. Instead, their thoughts have become complete nonsense, and their empty minds are filled with darkness. 22 They say they are wise, but they are fools; 23 instead of worshiping the immortal God, they worship images made to look like mortals or birds or animals or reptiles.
24 And so God has given those people over to do the filthy things their hearts desire, and they do shameful things with each other. 25 They exchange the truth about God for a lie; they worship and serve what God has created instead of the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever! Amen.
26 Because they do this, God has given them over to shameful passions. Even the women pervert the natural use of their sex by unnatural acts. 27 In the same way the men give up natural sexual relations with women and burn with passion for each other. Men do shameful things with each other, and as a result they bring upon themselves the punishment they deserve for their wrongdoing.
28 Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do. 29 They are filled with all kinds of wickedness, evil, greed, and vice; they are full of jealousy, murder, fighting, deceit, and malice. They gossip 30 and speak evil of one another; they are hateful to God, insolent, proud, and boastful; they think of more ways to do evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no conscience; they do not keep their promises, and they show no kindness or pity for others. 32 They know that God's law says that people who live in this way deserve death. Yet, not only do they continue to do these very things, but they even approve of others who do them.
I.
Īvods.
1 Pōvuls, Jezus Kristus kolps, paaicynōtais apostols, izvālātais Dīva Evangelijam, 2 kuru (Dīvs) caur sovim pravīšim svātajūs Rokstūs īprīkš apsūleja, 3 par sovu Dālu, kas pēc mīsas nōk nu Davida ciļts, 4 bet, pēc svātō Gora, caur sovu augšamceļšonūs nu myrūnim pīrōdeja, ka ir vareigais Dīva Dāls — myusu Kungs Jezus Kristus. 5 Caur Jū mes sajēmem apostolatu un žēlesteibu, lai Jō vōrda deļ ticeibai pakļautu vysas tautas. 6 Pi tom pīdarat arī jyus, Jezus Kristus aicynōtī.
7 Vysim Dīva nūmīļōtajim un aicynōtajim svātajim Romā.
Žēlesteiba jums un mīrs nu Dīva, myusu Tāva un nu Kunga Jezus Kristus.
8 Vyspyrms es pasateicu sovam Dīvam caur Jezu Kristu par jums vysim, ka jyusu ticeiba gūdam teik cyldynōta vysā pasaulī. 9 Man līcinīks ir Dīvs, kuram es nu vysas sovas sirds kolpoju, sludynōdams Jō Dāla Evangeliju, ka es sovōs lyugšonōs vysod jyusus pīmiņu, 10 lyugdams, lai man beidzūt, saskaņā ar Dīva grybu, pasaškērtu uz jums ceļš. 11 Jo es ilgojūs jyusus redzēt, lai jyusu pastyprynōšonai snāgtu jums kaut kaidu goreigu žēlesteibas dōvonu. 12 Un it seviški, lai mes vīns ūtru īprīcynōtu myusu ticeibā, kura ir kai muna, tai arī jyusu. 13 Brōļi, es nagrybu nu jums slēpt, ka jau daudz reižu es gribēju pi jums aizīt, bet leidz šam es beju aizkavāts, — lai arī nu jums man byutu kaids nūpalns, kai ir nu pōrejom tautom. 14 Man ir pīnōkums sludynōt Evangeliju kai grekim, tai arī tim, kas pi grekim napīdar, mōceitim un namōceitim, 15 un, par cik tys nu manis ir atkōreigs, arī jums, kas dzeivojit Romā. 16 Es Evangelija nasakauneju. Tys ir Dīva spāks pesteišonai ikvīnam ticeigajam, pyrmōk jūdam, tad arī pogōnam. 17 Jymā atsaklōj Dīva taisneiba nu ticeibas ticēšonai, kai stōv raksteits: Taisneigais dzeivoj nu ticeibas.
Pogōni atstōjuši eistū Dīvu un nūgrymuši grākūs.
18 Tai tad atsaklōj nu dabasim Dīva dusme par ikvīnu tūs cylvāku nataisneibu un bezdīveibu, kuri nataisneibā nūmōc patīseibu, 19 jo tys, kas par Dīvu ir jōzyna, jim ir labi zynoms, jo Dīvs jim tū ir atklōjis. 20 Tys, kas Jymā ir naradzams, kai Jō myužeigō vareiba un cīveiba, Jō dorbūs ar prōtu ir skaidri uztverams jau nu pasauļa radeišonas. Tōpēc jī nav attaisnojami. 21 Lai gon jī Dīvu pazyna, tūmār Jō kai Dīva nagūdynōja un napasateice, bet gon sovā prōtōšonā palyka nīceigi un jūs nasaprateigō sirds aptymsa. 22 Dīžōdamīs, ka šī asūt gudri, jī palyka par muļkim, 23 un namērsteigō Dīva gūdeibu jī atvītōja ar mērsteigō cylvāka, pat putnu, četrkōjaiņu, vai rōpuļu attālu.
24 Tōpēc Dīvs jūs atdeve jūs pošu sirds kōreibom — naceisteibai, un jī sovstarpeigi apgāneja sovas mīsas. 25 Dīva taisneibu jī atvītōja ar malim, radeibu gūdynōja un pīlyudze vairōk na kai Radeitōju, kas lai ir slaveits myužeigi. Amen.
26 Tōpēc Dīvs jūs atstōja naceistūs kōreibu varā: jūs sīvītes dabyskū sadzeivi atvītōja ar pretdabyskū; 27 tai pat arī veiri atstōja dabyskū sadzeivi ar sīvom un īsadaga naceistā kōreibā vīns pret ūtru, veirīši, pīkūpdami bezkauneibu ar veirīšim, par sovim moldim sajēme sovu nūpeļneitū strōpi.
28 Un tōpēc, ka jī Dīva atzeišonu nauzskateja par vajadzeigu, Dīvs jūs atstōja naprōteigā pōrlīceibā: dareit tū, kas napīdar. 29 Jī ir pylni vysaidas nataisneibas, ļaunuma, montkōreibas, ļauneibas, pylni skaudeibas, slapkaveibas, kiļdu, viļteibas un ļaundareibas; jī ir apmalōtōji, 30 aprunōtōji, Dīva naīradzātōji, pasmōdātōji, lepneigī, ļaunumā veiklī, dzymdynōtōjim napaklauseigī, 31 naprōteigī, nauzticeigī, cītsirdeigī, nažēleigī. 32 Lai gon jī Dīva lyukumu zyna ka tī, kas taidas lītas dora, ir nūdūdami nōvei, tūmār na tik vin poši tū dora, bet arī pīkreit tim, kas tū dora.
