Romans 1 (NET)

Romans 1:1¹From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 9:15Rom 15:161 Cor 1:1Jer 1:5Col 1:1Titus 1:12 Cor 1:1Rom 1:91 Cor 9:11 Tim 1:1

Romans 1:2²This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Titus 1:2Luke 1:70Rom 3:21Rom 16:26Acts 10:43Rom 3:2Luke 24:26-27Acts 26:6

Romans 1:3³concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 4:4Matt 1:1Jer 23:5-6John 1:14Luke 1:31-33Matt 1:20-23Amos 9:11Isa 9:6-71 John 4:9-10Gen 3:15

Romans 1:4⁴who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 1:19-23Heb 5:5-6Heb 9:142 Cor 13:4Acts 13:33-35Acts 5:30-32John 2:18-211 Pet 1:112 Pet 1:21Acts 17:31

Romans 1:5⁵Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 9:15Acts 6:7Rom 16:26Mal 1:111 Cor 15:10Heb 5:9Rom 12:31 Pet 2:9-10Acts 1:25Gal 1:15-16

Romans 1:6⁶You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:9Rev 17:142 Pet 1:10Heb 3:11 Cor 1:91 Pet 2:212 Tim 1:9Eph 1:11Rom 8:28-301 Thess 2:12

Romans 1:7⁷To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 1:2Jude 1:1-2Eph 1:21 Thess 1:12 John 1:32 Thess 3:162 Pet 1:2-32 Thess 2:16-172 Thess 3:18Phlm 1:3

Romans 1:8⁸First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 16:191 Cor 1:41 Thess 1:8-9Rom 6:171 Pet 4:11Col 1:3Eph 1:15Phil 1:31 Pet 2:5Heb 13:15

Romans 1:9⁹For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember youCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 6:182 Tim 1:3Eph 1:16-19Rom 9:11 Thess 5:172 Cor 1:231 Cor 14:14-151 Thess 1:21 Thess 3:102 Cor 11:10-11

Romans 1:10¹⁰and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 15:30-32Acts 18:21Jas 4:15Phlm 1:221 Thess 2:181 Thess 3:10-11Acts 19:21Heb 13:19Phil 4:6Rom 15:22-24

Romans 1:11¹¹For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 1:12Rom 16:252 Thess 3:3Rom 15:292 Pet 3:17-181 Pet 5:101 Pet 5:122 Thess 2:17Acts 8:15-191 Thess 3:13

Romans 1:12¹²that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, both yours and mine.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 3:7-103 John 1:3-42 Cor 7:132 Cor 7:4-72 Pet 1:1Titus 1:41 Thess 2:17-202 Cor 2:1-3Acts 11:23Rom 15:32

Romans 1:13¹³I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 19:21Phil 4:172 Tim 4:171 Thess 2:181 Thess 4:132 Cor 1:81 Cor 10:11 Cor 12:1Acts 16:6-7Rom 15:22-28

Romans 1:14¹⁴I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 9:16-23Acts 9:15Col 3:11Acts 22:21Acts 26:17-18Jas 3:17-18Rom 12:162 Cor 11:19Acts 13:2-4Eph 5:15-17

Romans 1:15¹⁵Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 15:201 Cor 9:17Isa 6:82 Cor 10:15-161 Kgs 8:18Matt 9:382 Cor 8:12Acts 21:13John 4:34Mark 14:8

Romans 1:16¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 8:382 Tim 1:81 Pet 4:162 Tim 1:12Ps 40:9-10Luke 9:261 Thess 1:5-61 Cor 1:18-242 Cor 4:4Rom 10:17

Romans 1:17¹⁷For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 2:4Gal 3:11Heb 10:38Phil 3:9Heb 11:6-7Rom 9:30Rom 3:21Rom 3:3John 3:36

Romans 1:18¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 5:61 Tim 4:1-2Rom 1:32Col 3:62 Thess 2:10Rom 4:15Rom 5:9Rom 6:13John 3:19-21Rom 2:3

Romans 1:19¹⁹because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 14:16-17Ps 19:1-6Rom 1:20Acts 17:23-30Isa 40:26John 1:9Jer 10:10-13

Romans 1:20²⁰For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 1:19Isa 40:26Ps 19:1-6Ps 8:3Ps 33:6-9Rom 2:15John 15:22John 1:18Ps 104:51 Tim 1:17

Romans 1:21²¹For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 4:17-182 Kgs 17:15Jer 2:52 Tim 3:2Ps 50:23John 3:19Rev 14:71 Pet 2:9Ps 81:12Rev 15:4

Romans 1:22²²Although they claimed to be wise, they became foolsCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:19-21Prov 26:12Rom 11:25Prov 25:14Jer 8:8-91 Cor 3:18-19Jer 10:14Isa 47:10Matt 6:23

Romans 1:23²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 106:20Jer 2:11Acts 17:291 Pet 4:3Ps 115:5-8Rom 1:25Deut 5:8Ezek 8:10Ps 135:15-18Deut 4:15-18

Romans 1:24²⁴Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 81:11-12Acts 7:42Acts 14:16Matt 15:142 Thess 2:10-12Eph 4:18-19Rom 1:26-28Lev 18:221 Cor 6:131 Cor 6:18

Romans 1:25²⁵They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 2:18Jer 13:251 John 2:15-16Isa 44:20Amos 2:42 Cor 11:31Jer 10:14-15Rom 9:51 John 5:20Rom 1:23

Romans 1:26²⁶For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jude 1:71 Tim 1:10Lev 18:22-28Rom 1:241 Cor 6:9Eph 4:19Gen 19:5Judg 19:22Eph 5:121 Thess 4:5

Romans 1:27²⁷and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 20:13Lev 18:22Rom 1:23-24

Romans 1:28²⁸And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Thess 2:10-12Rom 1:21Titus 1:16Jer 9:6Rom 1:242 Tim 3:8Rom 8:7-8Prov 5:12-13Jer 4:22Jer 6:30

Romans 1:29²⁹They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 12:20Prov 16:28Prov 26:20Ps 41:7

Romans 1:30³⁰slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 3:2Jude 1:162 Pet 2:18Jas 3:5Jas 4:16Rom 8:7-8Titus 3:31 Kgs 20:112 Chr 19:22 Chr 25:19

Romans 1:31³¹senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 3:3Prov 18:2Rom 3:11Isa 33:8Jer 4:22Matt 15:162 Kgs 18:14-37Isa 27:11Rom 1:20-21

Romans 1:32³²Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 1:21Rom 2:1-5Rom 6:21Ps 50:18Rom 1:18Luke 11:48Rom 2:21-23Acts 22:20Hos 7:3Mark 14:10-11