13 I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), [why do you intend to do so?] in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. [Why must you reap among the Gentiles?] 14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. 15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. [But aren’t you ashamed of the Gospel?] 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel [Why not ashamed?], for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. [How can it be the power for salvation?] 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” [But why do we all need salvation?] 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. [How do they suppress the truth?] 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. [When and how has he shown it to them?] 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been done. So they are without excuse. [What did they do with what they were shown?] 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. [So how did God respond?] 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. [What happened as a result of this dishonoring?] 26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. [What did God do in response to these passions and shameless acts?] 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. [But surely they struggled with these sins, didn’t they?] 32 Though they know God’s decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. [You only mean Gentiles only, right?  Jews don’t approve of such practices.  You’ve been describing Gentiles only, right?] 2:1 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. 2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. 3 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. [Wait! God doesn’t judge Jews and Gentiles the same way does he?] 6 He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. 11 For God shows no partiality.