Romans

chapter 1 of 16 (32 verses.)

Romans 1

Paul Sends Good News To Persecuted Brothers1

[This is a letter to you, 😇, from] Paul, a servant of Yahshua, [YAH's] Messiah. [YAH] called [me] to be [His] emissary. [YAH] set [me] apart [from the world. He has commissioned me to spend my whole life proclaiming] the Good News of Elohim:
The entire modern world is fundamentally Roman. The prevailing norms in politics, the arts, education, medicine, religion, sports, the military, etc. all trace their roots to Greco-Roman antiquity. Paul writes this book to you, a Hebrew in a Roman world.

[For millennia], through His prophets in the holy scriptures, YAH has promised this Amazing News, 😇.

[The news, 😇, is that] through [ancient king] David's baby-seed[s], YAH physically procreated a ‘son’: Yahshua [the] Messiah, our Master.

With power, by resurrecting [Yahshua] from the dead, Elohim declared [Yahshua] to be His Sacred-Spirit [born] ‘son’, 😇.

Through Yahshua, and for Yahshua's reputation, [YAH] gives us [believers] divine ambassadorship. [Our job is] to [promote] obedience [and] faith among all nations, 😇.

And [YAH] calls you, 😇, to belong to Yahshua, [YAH's] Messiah.

[I write this] to everyone in [the Roman Empire]. Elohim loves [you]. [He] calls [you] to separate [from the world-system]. [I pray for] grace and peace to [flow to] you, 😇, from YHVH our Father and from the Master: Yahshua, [YAH's] Messiah.
The United Nations = The Modern Roman Empire.

For starters, I thank my Eloah [YHVH] for you all. Because of Yahshua [the] Messiah, people all over the world [rave] about your faith, 😇.
or, “I pray to YHVH through Yahshua.”

I serve [YAH]. With [all] my spirit, [I herald] the Good News of his Son. [YAH] is my witness that without fail I always mention you [Romanized believers] in my prayers, 😇.

[Every day] I beg that somehow if Elohim is willing, I [can] finally now succeed in journeying to you.

For I long to see you, 😇, to share with you any spiritual gift that grows your strength.

I mean [that] I want you and I to be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, 😇.

I want you to be aware, [Roman] brothers, that I've often planned to come to you to reap a [spiritual] harvest among you, just as I [‘harvested’ believers] among the other beast-nations. But [spiritual forces] blocked me.

I have a duty to [evangelize] the Greeks, and people [beyond the Roman Empire]; to [help both] wise and unwise [people].

So, as far as it's in my [power], I'm eager to also herald the Good News to you [believers trapped] in [the] Roman [Empire].

For I'm not ashamed of the Good-News of [the] Messiah, 😇. [YAH's Good-News] is the power of Elohim. [The gospel brings] salvation [to] everyone who [actively, fruitfully] believes [it]. [The gospel which came] first to the Jew[s] is now [coming] to the beast-nationals.

The Good-News reveals how Elohim fixes us. [Our repair-process begins and ends with] faith, 😇. As [Habakkuk] writes, “All just [people] live by faith.”

Night-Stars Clarify YAH's Goodness & Power18

From heaven, Elohim is revealing [his] wrath, 😇. [He] fights all [the] unholiness and unrighteousness of humans who suppress the truth by wickedness.

—Because all [we] can know about [YHVH] the Eloah is plain to men, 😇. Elohim continually shows mankind [clear evidence of His loving and all-powerful nature].

Ever since [YAH] created the kosmos, [all people] have clearly seen His invisible [attributes] (including eternal power and divinity). The things [YAH] created make [YAH's nature] obvious. So, 😇, [unbelieving] humans have no excuse.

Mankind Hates The Creator, His Thoughts & Law21

—Because although humans know [about YHVH] the Eloah, they fail to glorify YHVH as Elohim. They're not even thankful, 😇. Rather, [mankind] becomes [trapped] in futile fantasies. So their foolish hearts turn black [with spiritual cancer].
Fantasies like: pornography, democracy, social insurance, the popular vote, fiat money, health insurance, pharmaceutical ‘cures,’ propaganda, bogus religion, etc.

Professing themselves to be wise, people become [professional] fools, 😇.

And people keep exchanging the glory of [YHVH] the incorruptible Eloah for images resembling corruptible humans, birds, four-footed beasts, and creeping [reptiles & bugs]!

Sexual Sin Is An Expression Of Man's Idolatry24

So, 😇, YHVH gives [humans] up to get dirty in the lusts of their own hearts. [They] dishonor their own bodies with one another.
This verse isn't directly addressing homosexuality, but all shared bodily sin. The word translated ‘men’ is ‘autos,’ a neuter pronoun (them) referring to ‘Anthropos’ (humans) in verse 18.

People morph the truth of YHVH into lie[s, 😇]. They worship and serve creations [and ordinances and institutions and buildings,] instead of the eternally-adored Creator!
Most church activity lies fixated on maintaining buildings and milking the socio-economic status quo for money.

All Fornication Spreads Deadly Disease26

Because of this, YHVH surrenders people, 😇. He abandons them to [their] vile pathologies. Even their females exchange natural [relations] for unnatural [fornication].
This verse condemns all female sexual sin, not just lesbian fornication. This verse is the closest the bible comes to addressing lesbianism. Surprisingly, Moses condemns male-male sex while refraining from direct comment on lesbianism. The Mosaic Law, being largely concerned with prevention of plague, targets MSM (male-male) intercourse as a top-level public health peril. Monogamous WSW (woman-woman) activity bears no explicit Mosaic-Law penalty, because WSW is a less common disease-transmission vector than MSM. (Generally, women nest, while men hunt for new bedmates.) Male penetration and insemination multiply STD epidemic risk. Fem-fem sexual interactions are common in polygamy, a problematic but biblically-permitted union where one man sleeps with multiple women, often simultaneously, in a lifelong closed-loop marriage. However, Paul here re-confirms, as did Christ, that the Creator's design for sexual relationships is: celibacy or heterosexual monogamy. All valid Judeo-Christian authorities agree.

Likewise, 😇, [human] males also abandon natural relations. They burn up in their [lusts] for each other. [They] commit unspeakable acts. So [fornicators] receive in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Most translations add many words to this verse to twist it into a monotonously anti-gay speech. This passage is about ALL sin, not just homosexual sin. This section should be used to promote fidelity. The bible is not a homophobic's queer-bashing stick. The Creator loves homosexuals. But the average male-male homosexual bond is not strong enough to promote monogamy. Predictably, MSM families tend to break up, creating constantly changing parental structures. Divorce damages parents' psyches and tortures children. Most queer men swap mates. So MSM's propagate deadly sexually-transmitted diseases at alarming rates. The risk for anal cancer is 17 to 31 times higher among gay and bisexual men than among heterosexual men.—“HPV and Men — CDC Fact Sheet”. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. April 3, 2008 & “Cancer in a population-based cohort of men and women in registered homosexual partnerships”. Am. J. Epidemiol. 157 (11): 966–72. Much homosexuality is rooted in child sexual abuse.

Mankind Hates YAH, So YAH Lets Them Go Bad28

[Humans] choose not to invest in knowing YHVH. So YHVH surrenders men to [their] reprobate mindsets, 😇. [YAH lets people] commit wrong acts [during their short lives on earth].
Yah lets humanity choose its own path. Many so-called ‘minor’ STD's (such as herpes, HPV and mononucleosis) frequently develop into incurable cancers that eat away peoples' genitals, throats, mouths, lips, anuses and tongues. You can't outsmart God. Antibiotic and anti-viral development can't keep pace with pathogenic mutation. So you shouldn't even sip from the cup of anyone you're not married to, let alone get nasty with them.

[Men] overflow with all [kinds of] unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness. [They're] stuffed with envy, murder, strife, deceit [and] malice, 😇. They [love] gossip.

[Humans are] backbiters, 😇, haters of Elohim, spiteful, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil [schemes and machines], disobedient to parents;

[Humans lie] void of understanding: [they're] covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless, unmerciful, 😇:

Mankind knows that YHVH righteously decrees that [people] who commit such errors deserve death. Yet mankind not only continues to commit these very sins, 😇 — mankind takes pleasure in everyone who wreaks [such evils]!
The world's communication media spew almost 100% pornography, gossip, lies and trumped-up conflict, because humans LOVE evil. The religious media spews muted and whitewashed versions of the same sins.