Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁸ First, I am giving-thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for you all because your faith is being proclaimed in the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness— Whom I am serving in my spirit in^[a] the good-news of His Son— how unceasingly I am making mention of you ¹⁰ always in my prayers, asking if somehow now at last I shall be prospered in the will of God to come to you.

¹¹ For I am yearning to see you in order that I may impart some spiritual gift to you so that you may be established. ¹² And this is that I may be encouraged-together-with you among you— through each other’s faith, both yours and mine.

¹³ And I do not want you to be-unaware, brothers, that often I planned to come to you— and was prevented until now— in order that I might have some fruit among you also, as indeed among the other Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, both to wise and foolish. ¹⁵ So for my part, I am eager also to announce-the-good-news to you, the ones in Rome.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed-of the good-news, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone believing^[b]— both to the Jew first and to the Greek. ¹⁷ For the righteousness of ^[c] God is revealed in it from faith to faith, just as it has been written [in Hab 2:4]: “But the righteous one shall live by faith”.