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So take courage, men, because I believe God that it will be just the way it was told to me.

After he said these things and had taken some bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all of them, and after he broke it, he began to eat.

They expected that he would begin to swell up or suddenly drop dead. After they waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

Now the brothers and sisters from there had heard the news about us and had come to meet us as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

After arranging a day with him, many came to him at his lodging. From dawn to dusk he expounded and testified about the kingdom of God. He tried to persuade them about Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

Therefore, let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen.”

proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God—

and was appointed to be the powerful Son of God according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection of the dead.

To all who are in Rome, loved by God, called as saints.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith is being reported in all the world.

God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in telling the good news about his Son—that I constantly mention you,

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.

since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them.

For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.

For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.