Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.

so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, both yours and mine.

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

To 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!

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus,

But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God

I 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.

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.

Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.