Letter to the Romans
You and I will be helped at the same time: you by my faith and I by your faith.
(Romans 1:12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
We can encourage each other by the faith that is ours.
(Romans 1:14, Contemporary English Bible)
It doesn’t matter if people are civilized and educated, or if they are uncivilized and uneducated. I must tell the good news to everyone.
(Romans 1:14-15, Contemporary English Version)
It is God’s power to save all who believe.
(Romans 1:16, Good News Bible)
The gospel reveals how God puts people right with himself: it is through faith from beginning to end.
(Romans 1:17, Good News Bible)
God punishes them, because what men can know about God is plain to them. God himself made it plain to them. Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen.
(Romans 1:19-20, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
God’s eternal power and character cannot be seen.
(Romans 1:20, Contemporary English Version)
Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen: they are perceived in the things that God has made.
(Romans 1:20, Good News Bible)
Because men refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not.
(Romans 1:28, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
When you judge others and then do the same things which they do, you condemn yourself.
(Romans 2:1)
God is kind because he is trying to lead you to repent.
(Romans 2:4)
The reason God is good to you is because he wants you to turn to him.
(Romans 2:4, Contemporary English Version)
God will reward every person according to what he has done.
(Romans 2:6)
There will be suffering and pain for all those who do what is evil.
(Romans 2:9, Good News Bible)
God judges everyone by the same standard.
(Romans 2:11)
God treats all men alike.
(Romans 2:11, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
It is not by hearing the Law that people are put right with God, but by doing what the Law commands.
(Romans 2:13)
Do you bring shame on God by breaking his law?
(Romans 2:23, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
If the Gentile, who is not circumcised, obeys the commands of the Law, will not God regard him as though he were circumcised?
(Romans 2:26, Good News Bible)
Who is a real Jew, truly circumcised? Not the man who is a Jew on the outside, whose circumcision is a physical thing. Rather, the real Jew is the man who is a Jew on the inside, that is, whose heart has been circumcised.
(Romans 2:28-29, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The real Jew is the person who is a Jew on the inside, that is, whose heart has been circumcised, and this is the work of God’s Spirit, not of the written Law.
(Romans 2:29)
To be a real Jew you must obey the Law. True circumcision is something that happens deep in your heart, not something done to your body.
(Romans 2:29, Contemporary English Version)
God must be true, even though every man is a liar.
(Romans 3:4, Good News Bible)
God tells the truth, even if everyone else is a liar.
(Romans 3:4, Contemporary English Version)
If God is not just, how can he judge the world?
(Romans 3:6, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
No one is put right in God’s sight by doing what the Law requires; what the Law does is to make man know that he has sinned.
(Romans 3:20, Good News Bible)
God doesn’t accept people simply because they obey the Law.
(Romans 3:20, Contemporary English Version)
God puts men right through their faith in Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in Christ for there is no difference at all; all men have sinned and are far away from God’s saving presence. But by the free gift of God’s grace they are all put right with him through Christ Jesus, who sets them free. God offered him so that by his death he should become the means by which men’s sins are forgiven, through their faith in him. God offered Christ to show how he puts men right with himself.
(Romans 3:22-25, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
(Romans 3:23)
All of us have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory. But God treats us much better than we deserve.
(Romans 3:23-24, Contemporary English Version)
A person is put right with God only through faith, and not by doing what the Law commands.
(Romans 3:28)
People are acceptable to God because they have faith, and not because they obey the Law.
(Romans 3:28, Contemporary English Version)
God is one, and he will put the Jews right with himself on the basis of their faith, and the Gentiles right through their faith.
(Romans 3:30, Good News Bible)
There is only one God, and he accepts Gentiles as well as Jews, simply because of their faith.
(Romans 3:30, Contemporary English Version)
The person who depends on his faith, not on his deeds, and who believes in the God who declares the guilty to be innocent, it is his faith that God takes into account in order to put him right with himself.
(Romans 4:5, Good News Bible)
You cannot make God accept you because of something you do. God accepts sinners only because they have faith in him.
(Romans 4:5, Contemporary English Version)
Abraham is the spiritual father o all who believe in God and are accepted s righteous by him, even though they are not circumcised.
(Romans 4:11, Good News Bible)
If what God promises is to be given to those who obey the Law, then man’s faith means nothing and God’s promise is worthless.
(Romans 4:14, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
God becomes angry when his Law is broken.
(Romans 4:15, Contemporary English Version)
God’s free gift to all of Abraham’s descendants - not just to those who obey the Law, but also to those who believe as Abraham did. For Abraham is the spiritual father of us all.
(Romans 4:16, Good News Bible)
Everything depends on having faith in God, so that God`s promise is assured by his great kindness.
(Romans 4:16, Contemporary English Version)
Abraham is the spiritual father of us all.
(Romans 4:16, Good News Bible)
The God who brings the dead to life and whose command brings into being what did not exist.
(Romans 4:17, Good News Bible)
His faith filled him with power.
(Romans 4:20, Good News Bible)
He was absolutely sure that God would be able to do what he had promised. That is why Abraham, through faith, “was accepted as righteous by God.”
(Romans 4:21-22, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
By faith we have been made acceptable to God.
(Romans 5:1, Contemporary English Version)
We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
(Romans 5:1, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Trouble produces endurance, endurance brings God’s approval, and his approval creates hope.
(Romans 5:4)
God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit.
(Romans 5:5 Good News Bible)
God has shown us how much he loves us - it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!
(Romans 5:8, Good News Bible)
God showed how much he loved us by having Christ die for us, even though we were sinful.
(Romans 5:8, Contemporary English Version)
We were God’s enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his Son.
(Romans 5:10, Good News Bible)
Adam sinned, and that sin brought death into the world. Now everyone has sinned, and so everyone must die.
(Romans 5:12, Contemporary English Version)
Sin came into the world through one man, and his sin brought death with it. As a result, death spread to the whole human race, because all men sinned.
(Romans 5:12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Adam was a figure of the one who was to come.
(Romans 5:14, Good News Bible)
Because of the good thing that Christ has done, God accepts us and gives us the gift of life.
(Romans 5:18, Contemporary English Version)
As the one sin condemned all men, in the same way the one righteous act sets all men free and gives them life.
(Romans 5:18, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Just as all people were made sinners as the result of the disobedience of one man, in the same way they will all be put right with God as the result of the obedience of the one man.
(Romans 5:19)
Where sin increased, God’s grace increased much more.
(Romans 5:20)
We were baptized so that we would live a new life.
(Romans 6:4, Contemporary English Version)
Our old being has been put to death with Christ on his cross, in order that the power of the sinful self might be destroyed, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin.
(Romans 6:6, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
You are to think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God in union with Christ Jesus.
(Romans 6:11, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Give yourselves to God, as mean who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes.
(Romans 6:13, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Sin must not be your master.
(Romans 6:14, Good News Bible)
When you surrender yourselves as slaves to obey someone, you are in fact the slaves of the master you obey.
(Romans 6:16, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
You do not belong to yourselves but to God: he bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God’s glory.
(Romans 6:19-20)
You must make every part of your body serve God, so that you will belong completely to him.
(Romans 6:19, Contemporary English Version)
You have been set free from sin, and you are God`s slaves. This will make you holy and will lead you to eternal life.
(Romans 6:22, Contemporary English Version)
For sin pays its wage - death; but God’s free gift is eternal life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 6:23, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
You are part of the body of Christ,; and now you belong to him who was raised from death in order that we might be useful in the service of God.
(Romans 7:4, Good News Bible)
You are now part of the body of Christ.
(Romans 7:4, Contemporary English Version)
Now we can serve God in a new way by obeying his Spirit, and not in the old way by obeying the written Law.
(Romans 7:6, Contemporary English Version)
No longer do we serve in the old way of a written law, but in the new was of the Spirit.
(Romans 7:6, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
I am mortal man, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do.
(Romans 7:14-15, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
I don`t understand why I act the way I do. I don`t do what I know is right. I do the things I hate.
(Romans 7:15, Contemporary English Version)
Even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.
(Romans 7:18, Good News Bible)
My inner being delights in the Law of God. But I see a different law at work in my body - a law that fights against the law which my mind approves of.
(Romans 7:22-23, Good News Bible)
By myself I can serve God’s law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.
(Romans 7:25, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The law of the Spirit, which brings us life in union with Christ Jesus, has set me free from the law of sin and death.
(Romans 8:2, Good News Bible)
The Holy Spirit will give you life that comes from Christ Jesus, and will set you free from sin and death.
(Romans 8:2, Contemporary English Version)
God set you free when he sent his own Son to be like us sinners and to be a sacrifice for our sin.
(Romans 8:3, Contemporary English Version)
Those who live as their human nature tells them to, have their minds controlled by what human nature wants. Those who live as the Spirit tells them to, have their minds controlled by what the Spirit wants. To have your mind controlled by what human nature wants will result in death; to have your mind controlled by what the Spirit wants will result in life and peace.
(Romans 8:5-6, Good News Bible)
Everyone who is ruled by the Holy Spirit thinks about spiritual things.
(Romans 8:5, Contemporary English Version)
To be controlled by the Spirit results in life and peace.
(Romans 8:6)
If our minds are ruled by the Spirit, we will have life and peace.
(Romans 8:6, Contemporary English Version)
Those who obey their human nature cannot please God.
(Romans 8:8)
If anyone doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ living in him, he is not a Christian at all.
(Romans 8:9, Living Bible)
Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
(Romans 8:9, Good News Bible)
You are alive because God has accepted you, even though your bodies must die.
(Romans 8:10, Contemporary English Version)
If the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from death, lives in you, then he who raised Christ from death will also give life to your mortal bodies by the presence of his Spirit in you.
(Romans 8:11, Good News Bible)
If you live according to your human nature, you are going to die.
(Romans 8:13, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Those who are led by God’s spirit are God’s children.
(Romans 8:14, Good News Bible)
Only those people who are led by God`s Spirit are his children.
(Romans 8:14, Contemporary English Version)
The Spirit makes you God’s children.
(Romans 8:15, Good News Bible)
If we share Christ’s suffering, we will also share his glory.
(Romans 8:17, Good News Bible)
God has mercy on anyone he wishes.
(Romans 8:18, Good News Bible)
Who are you, my friend, to talk back to God?
(Romans 8:20, Good News Bible)
It was by hope that we were saved.
(Romans 8:24, Good News Bible)
In all things God works for good with those who love him.
(Romans 8:28, Good News Bible)
If God is for us, who can be against us?
(Romans 8:31)
If God is on our side, can anyone be against us?
(Romans 8:31, Contemporary English Version)
I am sure that nothing can separate us form God`s love.
(Romans 8:38, Contemporary English Version)
There is nothing in all creation that will ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Jesus Christ.”
(Romans 8:39)
Not all of the people of Israel are the true people of God.
(Romans 9:6, Contemporary English Version)
Not all the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.
(Romans 9:6, Good News For Modern Man New Testament )
Everything then depends on God`s mercy and not on what people want or do.
(Romans 9:16, Contemporary English Version)
It does not depend on what man wants or does, but only on god’s mercy.
(Romans 9:16, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
God has mercy on whom he wishes, and he makes stubborn whom he wishes.
(Romans 9:18, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Who are you to talk back to God?
(Romans 9:20)
The Gentiles, who were not trying to put themselves right with God, were put right with him through faith; while the chosen people, who were seeking a law that would put them right with God, did not find it. And why not? Because what they did was not based on faith but on works.
(Romans 9:30-32, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Christ has brought the Law to an end, so that everyone who believes is put right with God.
(Romans 10:4, Good News Bible)
“God’s message Is near you, on your lips and in your heart” - that is, the message of faith that we preach. If you declare with your lips, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
(Romans 10:8-9, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
It is by our faith that we are put right with God.
(Romans 10:10, Good News Bible)
There is no difference between Jews and Gentiles; God is the same Lord of all, and richly blesses all who call to him.
(Romans 10:12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
How can they call on him if they have not believed? And how can they believe, if they have not heard the message? And how can they hear, if they message is not preached? And how can the message be preached, if the messengers are not sent out?
(Romans 10:14-15, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
There is no difference between Jews and Gentiles; God is the same Lord of all and richly blesses all who call to him.
(Romans 10:12, Good News Bible)
There is only one Lord, and he is generous to everyone who asks for his help.
(Romans 10:12, Contemporary English Version)
Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message comes through preaching Christ.
(Romans 10:17, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
There is a small number of those whom God has chosen, because of his mercy. His choice is based on his mercy, not on what they have done. For if God’s choice were based on what people do, then his grace would not be real grace.
(Romans 11:5-6, God News Bible)
The Jews, if they abandon their unbelief, will be put back in the place where they were, for God is able to put them back again. You Gentiles are like the branch of a wild olive tree that is broken off, and then, contrary to nature, is joined to the cultivated olive tree.
(Romans 11:23-24, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The stubbornness of the people of Israel is not permanent, but will last only until the complete number of Gentiles comes to God.
(Romans 11:25, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
God does not change his mind about whom he chooses and blesses.
(Romans 11:29)
God made all people prisoners of disobedience, so that he might show mercy to them all.
(Romans 11:32)
Who can measure the wealth and wisdom and knowledge of God? Who can understand his decisions or explain what he does?
(Romans 11:33, Contemporary English Version)
Everything comes from the Lord.
(Romans 11:36, Contemporary English Version)
Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer.
(Romans 12:1, Good News Bible)
Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind.
(Romans 12:2)
Don`t be like the people of this world, but let God change the way you think.
(Romans 12:2, Contemporary English Version)
Do not think of yourselves more highly than you should. Instead, be modest in your thinking, and each one of you judge himself according to the amount of faith that God has given him.
(Romans 12:3, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
God has given each of us the ability to do certain things well.
(Romans 12:6, Living Bible)
We are to use our different gifts in accordance with the grace that God has given us. If our gift is to preach God’s message we must do it according to the faith that we have. If it is to serve, we must serve. If it is to teach, we must teach. If it is to encourage others, we must do so. Whoever shares what he has with others, must do it generously; whoever has authority, must work hard; whoever shows kindness to others, must do it cheerfully.
(Romans 12:6-8, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Love must be completely sincere. Hate what is evil, hold on to what is good.
(Romans 12:9)
Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion.
(Romans 12:11, Good News Bible)
Be eager to show respect for one another.
(Romans 12:11, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Let your hope make you glad.
(Romans 12:12, Contemporary English Version)
Let your hope keep you joyful, be patient in your troubles, and pray at all times.
(Romans 12:12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Be patient in trouble, and prayerful always.
(Romans 12:12, Living Bible)
Ask God to bless those who persecute you; yes, ask him to bless, not to curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice weep with those who weep.
(Romans 12:14-15, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
When others are happy, be happy with them, and when they are sad, be sad. Be friendly with everyone.
(Romans 12:15-16, Contemporary English Version)
Do not be proud, but accept humble duties. Do not think of yourselves as wise.
(Romans 12:16, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Live at peace with everyone.
(Romans 12:18)
Don`t try to get even. Let God take revenge.
(Romans 12:19, Contemporary English Version)
Do not let evil defeat you; instead, conquer evil with good.
(Romans 12:21)
Don`t let evil defeat you, but defat evil with good.
(Romans 12:21, Contemporary English Version)
Render to all men their dues.
(Romans 13:7)
Be in debt to no one - the only debt you should have is to love one another.
(Romans 13:8, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The only obligation you have is to love one another.
(Romans 13:8)
If you love others, you have done all that the Law demands.
(Romans 13:8, Contemporary English Version)
To love, then, is to obey the whole Law.
(Romans 13:10)
Let us stop doing the things that belong to the dark.
(Romans 13:12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Let us conduct ourselves properly, as people who live in the light of day.
(Romans 13:13)
As the Lord Jesus Christ to help you live as you should.
(Romans 13:14, Living Bible)
Let the Lord Jesus Christ be as near to you as the clothes you wear.
(Romans 13:14. Contemporary English Version)
The one who eats only vegetables is not to pass judgment on the one who will eat anything.
(Romans 14:3, Good News Bible)
None of us lives only for himself.
(Romans 14:7)
Alive or dead, we still belong to the Lord.
(Romans 14:8, Contemporary English Version)
Every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.
(Romans 14:12)
Let us stop judging one another.
(Romans 14:13, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Do not let what you regard as good get a bad name.
(Romans 14:16)
We must always aim at those things that bring peace and that help strengthen one another.
(Romans 14:19, Good News Bible)
We should try to live at peace and help each other have a strong faith.
(Romans 14:19, Contemporary English Version)
It is wrong for anyone to hurt the conscience of others.
(Romans 14:20)
Happy are those who do not feel guilty when they do something they judge is right.
(Romans 14:22, Good News Bible)
Anything that is not based on faith is sin.
(Romans 14:23, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
We should not please ourselves. Instead, each of us should please his brother for his own good, in order to build him up in the faith.
(Romans 15:1-2, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Let each one of us make it a practice to please (make happy) his neighbor for his good and for his true welfare.
(Romans 15:2)
Everything written in the Scriptures was written to teach us, in order that we might have hope through the patience and encouragement which the Scriptures give us.
(Romans 15:4)
Accept one another for the glory of God, as Christ has accepted you.
(Romans 15:7)
Honor God by accepting each other.
(Romans 15:7, Contemporary English Bible)
May God, the source of all hope, fill you with all joy and peace by means of your faith in him.
(Romans 15:13, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
My ambition has always been to proclaim the Good \news in places where Christ has not been heard of.
(Romans 15:20, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Since the Jews shred their spiritual blessings with the Gentiles, the Gentiles ought to use their material blessings to help the Jews.
(Romans 15:27, Good News Bible)
I will come to you full of joy.
(Romans 15:32, Good News Bible)
I want you to be wise about what is good, but innocent in what is evil.
(Romans 16:19, Good News Bible)