12. I mean that I want us to help each other with the faith that we have. Your faith will help me, and my faith will help you.
13. Brothers, I want you to know that I planned many times to come to you. But this has not been possible. I wanted to come so that I could help you grow spiritually. I wanted to help you as I have helped the other non-Jewish people.
14. I must serve all people—Greeks and non-Greeks, the wise and the foolish.
15. That is why I want so much to preach the Good News to you in Rome.
16. I am not ashamed of the Good News. It is the power God uses to save everyone who believes—to save the Jews first, and then to save the non-Jews.
17. The Good News shows how God makes people right with himself. God’s way of making people right with him begins and ends with faith. As the Scripture says, “The person who is made right with God by faith will live forever.”
18. God’s anger is shown from heaven against all the evil and wrong things that people do. By their own evil lives they hide the truth.
19. God shows his anger because everything that may be known about God has been made clear. Yes, God has clearly shown them everything that may be known about him.