JMNT(i)
13 Yet I do not want you to continue to fail to know (or: be unaware or remain ignorant),
brothers (= fellow believers and members of the Family),
that I often set before myself (purposed and proposed)
to come (or: go)
to you – and I was prevented until now (up to this point) –
to the end that I may have (or: could hold and enjoy)
some fruit within you folks (or: among you),
correspondingly as also [
I do]
within (or: among)
the remaining ethnic multitudes (or: the rest of the nations – the non-Israelites; the Gentiles).
14 I am (or: I continue being)
a debtor to (or: for; or: with)
both Greeks (Hellenists)
and to (for; with)
barbarians (non-Hellenists: those who do not possess Greek culture);
to (or: for; with)
both wise ones and to (for; with)
those without understanding (unintelligent ones; foolish ones; folks who lack sense).
15 In this condition (or: Thus so) –
commensurate with me, the ready (willing; eager)
one – [
I]
myself [
desire and intend]
to also bring and proclaim (or: announce)
the message of goodness, ease and well-being (or: Good News)
to and among you folks (or: for you folks)
in Rome.
16 For you see, I am not in the habit of being ashamed of (= I am proud of and thrilled about)
the Good News (message of goodness, ease and well-being),
for it continues being (or: is)
God’s power (ability; capacity) [
leading]
into deliverance (being rescued; salvation; health and wholeness; restoration to the original state and condition) –
in everyone (for everyone; to everyone)
continuously having faith and trusting (or: believing and relying upon [it]):
for (to; in) [
the]
Jew first, also for (to; in) [
the]
Greek (or: Hellenist; = non-Jew) –
17 for in It God’s justice (solidarity in fairness and equity; righteousness; [covenantal] qualities of the Way pointed out; way of righting what is wrong; right relationship [with us]; means of turning us in the right direction)
is continuously and progressively being unveiled (revealed; disclosed),
from out of faith (or: forth from out of the midst of trust and conviction),
[proceeding] into faith ([leading] into the midst of trust and conviction)
, according as it has been written, "But the one righteous (or: just)
out-of-faith will himself continue living (or: Yet the Just One will experience life in himself from out of faith; or: Now the one in accord with the Way pointed out from trust, will in himself be living; or: And the person rightwised from out of faith will continuously live; or: So the One being fair and equitable from trust will progressively receive life into Himself from that trust).
" [
Hab. 2:4]