JMNT(i)
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]
18 You see, God’s personal emotion (or: inherent fervor; mental bent; natural impulse; teeming desire and swelling passion; temperament; disposition; or: anger; wrath)
is continuously and progressively being unveiled (revealed; disclosed)
from heaven upon every irreverence (lack of awe or absence of pious fear; disrespect)
and injustice (wrong; unrighteousness; situation or act contrary to the Way pointed out)
of mankind (or: that arises from humans) –
the folks continuously holding down (restraining; stopping while possessing)
the Truth (or: reality)
in the sphere of (or: within the midst of)
injustice (unrighteousness; that which is not right; unfairness and inequality) –