Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁸ People in all the world have heard that you believe. I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you.

⁹ God knows that I always talk to him about you. I worship him in my heart while I tell the good news about his Son.

¹⁰ I ask God that in some way now I may be able to visit you, if he wishes me to do it.

¹¹ I want very much to see you. I want to give you some gift from the Holy Spirit to make you stronger.

¹² I mean to say that we will both be helped. I will be helped because you believe, and you will be helped because I believe.

¹³ My brothers, I want you to know that I have often planned to come to you. But something has stopped me until now. I planned to come so that I might see good things happen among you. I have done this in the other nations which are not Jewish.

¹⁴ This is something I must do for the Greek people and for all other people. I must do it for people who are wise and for people who are not wise.

¹⁵ That is why I want so much to tell the good news to you people in the city of Rome also.

¹⁶ I am not ashamed of the good news of Jesus Christ. The good news is the power God uses to save every one who believes. The good news was for the Jews first, but also for those who are not Jews.

¹⁷ The good news shows how God puts a person right. God puts a person right when that person believes in his Son and keeps on believing. The holy writings say, `A person who is put right because he believes, will live for ever.'