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Today's Bible Reading :: Romans 1 - 3 (ESV)

Romans 1

Romans 2

Romans 3

Romans 1

Greeting

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Rom 1:1 - Paul, a servant[fn] of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

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Rom 1:2 - which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

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Rom 1:3 - concerning his Son, who was descended from David[fn] according to the flesh

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Rom 1:4 - and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

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Rom 1:5 - through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

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Rom 1:6 - including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,

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Rom 1:7 - To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Longing to Go to Rome

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Rom 1:8 - First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.

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Rom 1:9 - For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you

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Rom 1:10 - always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God’s will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

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Rom 1:11 - For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—

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Rom 1:12 - that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.

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Rom 1:13 - I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,[fn] that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.

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Rom 1:14 - I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians,[fn] both to the wise and to the foolish.

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Rom 1:15 - So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

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Rom 1:16 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

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Rom 1:17 - For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith,[fn] as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”[fn]

God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness

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Rom 1:18 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

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Rom 1:19 - For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

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Rom 1:20 - For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[fn] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

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Rom 1:21 - For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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Rom 1:22 - Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

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Rom 1:23 - and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

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Rom 1:24 - Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

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Rom 1:25 - because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

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Rom 1:26 - For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;

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Rom 1:27 - and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

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Rom 1:28 - And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

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Rom 1:29 - They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,

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Rom 1:30 - slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

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Rom 1:31 - foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

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Rom 1:32 - Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

ESV Footnotes

(1:1)

For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

(1:3)

Or who came from the offspring of David

(1:13)

Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters

(1:14)

That is, non-Greeks

(1:17)

Or beginning and ending in faith

(1:17)

Or The one who by faith is righteous shall live

(1:20)

Or clearly perceived from the creation of the world

Romans 2

God’s Righteous Judgment

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Rom 2:1 - Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.

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Rom 2:2 - We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.

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Rom 2:3 - Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?

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Rom 2:4 - Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

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Rom 2:5 - But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

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Rom 2:6 - He will render to each one according to his works:

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Rom 2:7 - to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

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Rom 2:8 - but for those who are self-seeking[fn] and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

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Rom 2:9 - There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,

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Rom 2:10 - but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.

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Rom 2:11 - For God shows no partiality.

God’s Judgment and the Law

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Rom 2:12 - For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

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Rom 2:13 - For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

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Rom 2:14 - For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

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Rom 2:15 - They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them

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Rom 2:16 - on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

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Rom 2:17 - But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God

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Rom 2:18 - and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law;

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Rom 2:19 - and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

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Rom 2:20 - an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

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Rom 2:21 - you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?

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Rom 2:22 - You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

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Rom 2:23 - You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.

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Rom 2:24 - For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

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Rom 2:25 - For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

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Rom 2:26 - So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded[fn] as circumcision?

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Rom 2:27 - Then he who is physically[fn] uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code[fn] and circumcision but break the law.

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Rom 2:28 - For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.

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Rom 2:29 - But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.

ESV Footnotes

Or contentious

Or counted

Or is by nature

Or the letter

Romans 3

God’s Righteousness Upheld

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Rom 3:1 - Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

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Rom 3:2 - Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

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Rom 3:3 - What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

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Rom 3:4 - By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written,
“That you may be justified in your words,
and prevail when you are judged.”

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Rom 3:5 - But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

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Rom 3:6 - By no means! For then how could God judge the world?

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Rom 3:7 - But if through my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

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Rom 3:8 - And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

No One Is Righteous

(Psa 14:1–3; 53:1–4 )

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Rom 3:9 - What then? Are we Jews[fn] any better off?[fn] No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,

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Rom 3:10 - as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;

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Rom 3:11 - no one understands;
no one seeks for God.

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Rom 3:12 - All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”

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Rom 3:13 - “Their throat is an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”

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Rom 3:14 - “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”

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Rom 3:15 - “Their feet are swift to shed blood;

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Rom 3:16 - in their paths are ruin and misery,

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Rom 3:17 - and the way of peace they have not known.”

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Rom 3:18 - “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

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Rom 3:19 - Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

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Rom 3:20 - For by works of the law no human being[fn] will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

The Righteousness of God Through Faith

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Rom 3:21 - But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—

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Rom 3:22 - the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:

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Rom 3:23 - for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

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Rom 3:24 - and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

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Rom 3:25 - whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

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Rom 3:26 - It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

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Rom 3:27 - Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

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Rom 3:28 - For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

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Rom 3:29 - Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

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Rom 3:30 - since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

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Rom 3:31 - Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

See the ESV Preface

ESV Footnotes

(3:9)

Greek Are we

(3:9)

Or at any disadvantage?

(3:20)

Greek flesh

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version copyright © 2001, 2007, 2011, 2016, 2025 by Crossway Books and Bibles, a Publishing Ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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For more information on this translation, see the ESV Preface.

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Today's Bible Reading :: Romans 1 - 3 (ESV)

Romans 1

Greeting

Longing to Go to Rome

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness

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Romans 2

God’s Righteous Judgment

God’s Judgment and the Law

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Romans 3

God’s Righteousness Upheld

No One Is Righteous

The Righteousness of God Through Faith

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