13. But I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you, (though I have been hindered even to the present time) so that I might obtain some fruit among you also, just as also among the other Gentiles.
14. To the Greeks and to the uncivilized, to the wise and to the foolish, I am in debt.
15. So within me there is a prompting to evangelize to you also who are at Rome.
16. For I am not ashamed of the Gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation for all believers, the Jew first, and the Greek.
17. For the justice of God is revealed within it, by faith unto faith, just as it was written: "For the just one lives by faith."
18. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven over every impiety and injustice among those men who fend off the truth of God with injustice.
19. For what is known about God is manifest in them. For God has manifested it to them.
20. For unseen things about him have been made conspicuous, since the creation of the world, being understood by the things that were made; likewise his everlasting virtue and divinity, so much so that they have no excuse.
21. For although they had known God, they did not glorify God, nor give thanks. Instead, they became weakened in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was obscured.
22. For, while proclaiming themselves to be wise, they became foolish.
23. And they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of four-legged beasts, and of serpents.