Romans 1:15

New Living Translation

So I am eager to come to you in Rome, too, to preach the Good News.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
That is why I want so much to tell the Good News to you there in Rome.

Revised Standard Version
so I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Lykewyse as moche as in me is I am redy to preache the Gospell to you of Rome also.

Hebrew Names Version
So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

International Standard Version
That is why I am so eager to proclaim the gospel to you who live in Rome,who live in Rome">[fn] too.

New American Standard Bible
So, for my part, I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

New Century Version
That is why I want so much to preach the Good News to you in Rome.

Update Bible Version
So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome.

Webster's Bible Translation
So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

English Standard Version
So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

World English Bible
So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Therefore, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also who are at Rome.

Weymouth's New Testament
so that for my part I am willing and eager to proclaim the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y am dettour, so that that is in me is redi to preche the gospel also to you that ben at Rome.

English Revised Version
So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome.

Berean Standard Bible
That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

Amplified Bible
So, for my part, I am ready and eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

American Standard Version
So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome.

Bible in Basic English
For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome.

Complete Jewish Bible
therefore I am eager to proclaim the Good News also to you who live in Rome.

Darby Translation
so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who [are] in Rome.

Etheridge Translation
because to every man am I obligated to preach; and so am I urged to evangelize unto you also who are in Ruma.

Murdock Translation
And so I am eager to preach to you also who are at Rome.

King James Version (1611)
So, as much as in mee is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also.

New Life Bible
So I want to preach the Good News to you who live in Rome also.

New Revised Standard
—hence my eagerness to proclaim the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore, as much as in me is, I am readie to preach ye Gospel to you also that are at Rome.

George Lamsa Translation
So I am eager to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, the eagerness on my part - unto you also who are in Rome, to announce the joyful message.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So (as much as is in me) I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are at Rome.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So that as much as in me is, I am redy to preache the Gospell to you that are at Rome also.

Good News Translation
So then, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who live in Rome.

Christian Standard Bible®
So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

King James Version
So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

Lexham English Bible
Thus I am eager to proclaim the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

Literal Translation
so as far as lies in me, I am eager to preach the gospel to you in Rome also.

Young's Literal Translation
so, as much as in me is, I am ready also to you who [are] in Rome to proclaim good news,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore (as moch as i me is) I am ready to preach the Gospell vnto you at Rome also.

Mace New Testament (1729)
so, that as far as it depends upon me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also, who are at Rome.

New English Translation
Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.

New King James Version
So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.

Simplified Cowboy Version
But I can't wait to get to y'all and tell y'all what I know of the good news.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So, for my part, I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

Legacy Standard Bible
In this way, for my part, I am eager to proclaim the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

Contextual Overview

⁸ Let me say first that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith in him is being talked about all over the world. ⁹ God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heart by spreading the Good News about his Son. ¹⁰ One of the things I always pray for is the opportunity, God willing, to come at last to see you. ¹¹ For I long to visit you so I can bring you some spiritual gift that will help you grow strong in the Lord. ¹² When we get together, I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours. ¹³ I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to visit you, but I was prevented until now. I want to work among you and see spiritual fruit, just as I have seen among other Gentiles. ¹⁴ For I have a great sense of obligation to people in both the civilized world and the rest of the world, to the educated and uneducated alike. ¹⁵ So I am eager to come to you in Rome, too, to preach the Good News.

Bible Verse Review
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so: Romans 12:18, 1 Kings 8:18, Mark 14:8, 2 Corinthians 8:12

I: Isaiah 6:8, Matthew 9:38, John 4:34, Acts 21:13, 1 Corinthians 9:17, 2 Corinthians 10:15, 2 Corinthians 10:16

Reciprocal: Acts 2:10 - strangers Acts 5:42 - they Acts 19:21 - I must Acts 23:11 - for 1 Peter 1:12 - that have 1 Peter 5:2 - of

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So, as much as in me is, I am ready,.... This explains what he was a debtor to one and another for, namely,

to preach the Gospel; expresses the readiness of his mind to that work, whatever difficulties lay in his way; and declares what a willing mind he had to preach it also to the Romans, as elsewhere:

to you that are at Rome also; the metropolis of the Roman empire, a very public place, the seat of Satan, and where was the heat of persecution.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am debtor - This does not mean that they had conferred any favor on him, which bound him to make this return, but that he was under obligation to preach the gospel to all to whom it was possible. This obligation arose from the favor that God had shown him in appointing him to this work. He was specially chosen as a vessel to bear the gospel to the Gentiles Acts 9:15; Romans 11:13, and he did not feel that he had discharged the obligation until he had made the gospel known as far as possible among all the nations of the earth.

To the Greeks - This term properly denotes “those who dwelt in Greece.” But as the Greeks were the most polished people of antiquity, the term came to be synonymous with the polished, the refined, the wise, as opposed to barbarians. In this place it doubtless means the same as “the wise,” and includes the Romans also, as it cannot be supposed that Paul would designate the Romans as barbarians. Besides, the Romans claimed an origin from Greece, and Dionysius Halicarnassus (book i.) shows that the Italian and Roman people were of Greek descent.

Barbarians - All who were not included under the general name of Greeks. Thus, Ammonius says that “all who were not Greeks were barbarians.” This term “barbarian,” Βάρβαρος Barbaros, properly denotes one who speaks a foreign language, a foreigner, and the Greeks applied it to all who did not use their tongue; compare 1 Corinthians 14:11, “I shall be unto him that speaketh, a barbarian, etc. that is, I shall speak a language which he cannot understand. The word did not, therefore, of necessity denote any rusticity of manners, or any lack of refinement.

To the wise - To those who esteemed themselves to be wise, or who boasted of their wisdom. The term is synonymous with “the Greeks,” who prided themselves much in their wisdom. 1 Corinthians 1:22, “the Greeks seek after wisdom;” compare 1 Corinthians 1:19; 1Co 3:18-19; 1 Corinthians 4:10; 2 Corinthians 11:19.

Unwise - Those who were regarded as the ignorant and unpolished part of mankind. The expression is equivalent to ours, ‘to the learned and the unlearned.’ It was an evidence of the proper spirit to be willing to preach the gospel to either. The gospel claims to have power to instruct all mankind, and they who are called to preach it, should be able to instruct those who esteem themselves to be wise, and who are endowed with science, learning, and talent; and they should be willing to labor to enlighten the most obscure, ignorant, and degraded portions of the race. This is the true spirit of the Christian ministry.

So, as much as in me is - As far as opportunity may be offered, and according to my ability.

I am ready ... - I am prepared to preach among you, and to show the power of the gospel, even in the splendid metropolis of the world. He was not deterred by any fear; nor was he indifferent to their welfare; but he was under the direction of God. and as far as he gave him opportunity, he was ready to make known to them the gospel, as he had done at Antioch, Ephesus, Athens, and Corinth.

This closes the introduction or preface to the Epistle. Having shown his deep interest in their welfare, he proceeds in the next verse to state to them the great doctrines of that gospel which he was desirous of proclaiming to them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 1:15. I am ready to preach — προθυμον; I have a ready mind. I was only prevented by the providence of God from visiting you long ago. His time is best: in the mean time I write, by his direction, to comfort and instruct you.