Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

As he also says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ‘My beloved.’”

I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my good friend Stachys.

For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my compatriots and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit –

Greet Herodion, my compatriot. Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

But about Israel he says, “All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!”

“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life!”