I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, because [it] is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first, the Jew, [then] and the Greek. (Salvation is, according to religious beliefs, the highest «bliss» that is supposedly granted to a person by God when a person fulfills a number of religious conditions, mainly consisting in slavish obedience and obedience, which is beneficial to priests of any religion. In the first place – Jews, in the second – Greeks, Hellenes).
17 In him the truth of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written: The righteous will live by faith. (Belief in a non-existent god is very beneficial to the exploiting classes, so the «spiritual religious» government always «goes in an embrace» with the secular one in order to keep the masses «on a religious leash»).
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all the wickedness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth by unrighteousness. (Churchmen of all stripes inspire their believers with all kinds of fears and misfortunes that will follow if believers cease to be believers. Here the churchmen are silent and do not say that everything in the world is according to the will of God, including: «every wickedness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth with unrighteousness»).
19 For what can be known about God is obvious to them, because God has revealed to them. («Divine» bundles).
20 For his invisible things, his eternal power and divinity, from the creation of the world through the contemplation of creatures are visible, so that they are unresponsive. («Divine» bundles).
21 But how, when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, and did not thank him, but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened; (They behaved «wrongly.» However, everything is according to the will of God!).
22 calling themselves wise, they went mad, (Criticism of «wrong» behavior).
23 and the glory of the incorruptible God was changed into an image like a corruptible man, and birds, and quadrupeds, and reptiles – (But all according to the will of God!).
24 This is why God gave them up to uncleanness in the lusts of their hearts, so that they defiled their own bodies. (The central idea of this message is justification. It tells about the sinfulness of all people who are mired in shameful passions and are unable to rise spiritually. This applies primarily to the pagans, who, having come to know God and his commandments, nevertheless gave themselves up to idolatry, therefore God rejected them from himself and betrayed them «in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness.» Pagans – this word «sacred» writers sometimes denote those who do not believe in the true God, or in general all those who do not know and do not recognize his name. In some places of the Bible, this word means Christians not from Jews).
25 They replaced the truth of God with a lie, and worshipped and served the creature instead of the Creator, Who is blessed forever, amen. (Criticism of «wrong» behavior).
26 Therefore, God betrayed them to shameful passions: their women replaced their natural use with unnatural; (Criticism of «wrong» behavior).
27 similarly, men, abandoning the natural use of the female sex, were inflamed with lust for one another, men on men doing shame and receiving in themselves due retribution for their error. (Criticism of «wrong» behavior).
28 And as they did not care to have God in their minds, God gave them over to a perverse mind – to do lewdness, (Talion’s rule).
29 so that they are full of all unrighteousness, fornication, deceit, covetousness, malice, filled with envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice, (Criticism of «wrong» behavior).
30 slanderers, slanderers, God-haters, abusers, self-praisers, proud, inventive for evil, disobedient to parents, (Criticism of «wrong» behavior).
31 reckless, treacherous, unloving, irreconcilable, merciless. (Criticism of «wrong» behavior).
32 They know the righteous [judgment] It is God’s law that those who do such things are worthy of death; however, not only do they do them, but they also approve of those who do them. (Criticism of «wrong» behavior).
Chapter 2
1 Therefore, you are not blameless, every person who judges [another], because by the same judgment that you judge another, you condemn yourself, because judging [another], you do the same. (Talion’s rule).
2 But we know that truly there is a judgment of God on those who do such things. (The mention of the «judgment of God», which will evaluate everything «correctly», is an analogy with the human judgment).
3 Do you really think, man, that you will escape the judgment of God by condemning those who do such things and (yourself) doing the same? (The suggestion that it is impossible for a person to avoid the «judgment of God»).
4 Or do you neglect the riches of God’s goodness, meekness, and longsuffering, not understanding that God’s goodness leads you to repentance? («Divine» moralizing, revealing what is good and what is bad, from Paul’s point of view).
5 But, according to your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are gathering anger for yourself on the day of wrath and the revelation of righteous judgment from God, («Divine» moralizing, revealing what is good and what is bad, from Paul’s point of view).
6 Who will reward everyone according to his deeds: (The suggestion that it is impossible for a person to avoid the «judgment of God»).
7 those who seek glory, honor and immortality by perseverance in a good deed – eternal life; (Talion’s rule: if you behave as established by the priesthood, then, they say, you will live forever, behave badly, do not obey the priests, then, they say, God will punish you. This interpretation is beneficial to priests-priests of any religion).
8 but to those who persist and do not submit to the truth, but give themselves up to unrighteousness – rage and anger. (Talion’s rule: if you behave as established by the priesthood, then, they say, you will live forever, behave badly, do not obey the priests, then, they say, God will punish you. This interpretation is beneficial to priests-priests of any religion).
9 Sorrow and distress to every soul of a man who does evil, first, a Jew, [then] a Greek! (The Jew is in the first place, after all, «the chosen of Yahweh», the Greek-Greek is in the second, also the word «Greek» in this context means all non—Jews).
10 On the contrary, glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, first to the Jew, and then to the Greek! (The Jew is in the first place, after all, the «chosen ones of Yahweh», the Greek Greek is in the second).
11 For there is no hypocrisy with God. (Personification of God, endowing the lord of God with human features. God has no face perception, that is, He does not single out a certain person, but this is not the case, see previous verses: 9—10).
12 Those who have sinned without the law will perish outside the law; and those who have sinned under the law will be condemned according to the law (Reasoning about the law of Moses – the Torah, «divine» moralizing, revealing what is good and what is bad, from Paul’s point of view).
13 (because not the listeners of the law are righteous before God, but the executors of the law will be justified, (Reasoning about the law of Moses – the Torah, «divine» moralizing, revealing what is good and
