Romans 1:16

New Catholic Bible

The Gospel of God^[a]

¹⁶Power of Salvation for All Believers. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, since it is the power of God that offers salvation to everyone who has faith—to Jews first, and then to Gentiles as well.

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Romans 1:16 This extremely dense paragraph sums up the entire Letter. When we hear the word “gospel” we should not think of a book, but of the proclamation of salvation through faith. The citation in v. 17 from the prophet Habakkuk (2:4), each word of which here takes on a Christian value, constitutes the theological pivot of the entire Letter.

Romans 1:16

New International Version

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel,^(A) because it is the power of God^(B) that brings salvation to everyone who believes:^(C) first to the Jew,^(D) then to the Gentile.^(E)