Romans 1:16

"So as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome."

Key Reflection

Paul expresses his ardent desire to share the gospel with the Roman believers, indicating that he is willing to devote all his energy and effort towards this mission. In first-century Rome, Christianity was still a relatively unknown and persecuted religion; thus, Paul’s eagerness underscores both his commitment to spreading the message of salvation and his recognition of the significant challenge faced by early Christian communities in the city.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 16. For I am not ashamed, etc. The Jews had cast him off, and regarded him as an apostate; and by the wise among the Gentiles he had been persecuted, and despised, and driven from place to place, and regarded as the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things, (1 Co 4:13) but still he was not ashamed of the gospel. He had so firm a conviction of its value and its truth; he had experienced so much of its consolations, and had seen so much of its efficacy, that he was so far from being ashamed of it that he gloried in it as the power of God unto salvation. Men should be ashamed of crime and folly.

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