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Romans 1:5

Good News Translation

Through him God gave me the privilege of being an apostle for the sake of Christ, in order to lead people of all nations to believe and obey.

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People from one end of the world to the other honor me. Everywhere they burn incense to me and offer acceptable sacrifices. All of them honor me!

A curse on the cheater who sacrifices a worthless animal to me, when he has in his flock a good animal that he promised to give me! For I am a great king, and people of all nations fear me.”

Out of the fullness of his grace he has blessed us all, giving us one blessing after another.

to serve as an apostle in the place of Judas, who left to go to the place where he belongs.”

Simon has just explained how God first showed his care for the Gentiles by taking from among them a people to belong to him.

And so the word of God continued to spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem grew larger and larger, and a great number of priests accepted the faith.

The Lord said to him, “Go, because I have chosen him to serve me, to make my name known to Gentiles and kings and to the people of Israel.

And because of God's gracious gift to me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you should. Instead, be modest in your thinking, and judge yourself according to the amount of faith that God has given you.

Now, however, that truth has been brought out into the open through the writings of the prophets; and by the command of the eternal God it is made known to all nations, so that all may believe and obey.

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles also? Of course he is.

But by God's grace I am what I am, and the grace that he gave me was not without effect. On the contrary, I have worked harder than any of the other apostles, although it was not really my own doing, but God's grace working with me.

Even if others do not accept me as an apostle, surely you do! Because of your life in union with the Lord you yourselves are proof of the fact that I am an apostle.

Let us, then, who were the first to hope in Christ, praise God's glory!

Let us praise God for his glorious grace, for the free gift he gave us in his dear Son!

When he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey him,




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