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The Epistle of Paul to the Romans

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Introduction to Romans:
Author: The apostle Paul (1:1).Time of Writing: Approximately A.D. 60, on Paul's third ministry journey.Place of Writing: Corinth (Rom. 15:25-32; Acts 19:21; 20:1-3).Recipients: The saints in Rome (1:7).

Subject of Romans:
The Gospel of God—
To Make Sinners Sons of God
to Constitute the Body of Christ,
Which Is Expressed as the Local Churches

Romans

Chapter 1 of 16

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I.  Introduction—the gospel of God — 1:1-17

A.  Promised in the Holy Scriptures — vv. 1-2
Rom 1:1 - 1Paul, a 2slave of 3Christ 4Jesus, a 5called 6apostle, 7separated 8unto the 9gospel of God,
Rom 1:2 - 1Which He promised 2beforehand through His prophets in the 3holy Scriptures,
B.  Concerning Christ — vv. 3-4
Rom 1:3 - Concerning 1His Son, who 2came 3out of the 4aseed of David according to the 5flesh,
Rom 1:4 - Who was 1designated the 2aSon of God in 3power according to the 4Spirit of 5holiness 6out of the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord;
C.  Received by the called ones — vv. 5-7
Rom 1:5 - Through whom we have received 1grace and 2apostleship unto the 3aobedience of 4bfaith among all the Gentiles 5on behalf of His name,
Rom 1:6 - Among whom you also are the 1called ones of Jesus Christ;
Rom 1:7 - To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, the acalled 1saints: 2Grace to you and bpeace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
D.  Proclaimed with eagerness and partaken of by faith — vv. 8-15
Rom 1:8 - First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all because your afaith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
Rom 1:9 - For God is my witness, whom I 1serve in my 2spirit in the gospel of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
Rom 1:10 - Beseeching if by any means now at last I may be prospered in the will of God to come to you.
Rom 1:11 - For I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift so that you may be aestablished;
Rom 1:12 - That is, that I with you may be 1encouraged among you through the faith which is in one another, both yours and mine.
Rom 1:13 - And I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I apurposed to come to you (yet was hindered until the present), that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
Rom 1:14 - I am debtor both to Greeks and to 1barbarians, both to wise and to foolish;
Rom 1:15 - So, for my part, I am ready to announce the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
E.  The power of God's salvation — vv. 16-17
Rom 1:16 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the 1power of God unto 2salvation to everyone who believes, both to Jew first and to Greek.
Rom 1:17 - For the 1arighteousness of God is revealed in it 2out of faith to faith, as it is written, b“But the righteous shall 3have life and live by 4faith.”

II.  Condemnation — 1:18-3:20

A.  On mankind generally — 1:18-32
Rom 1:18 - 1For the 2awrath of God is revealed from heaven 3upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who 4hold down 5the truth in unrighteousness,
Rom 1:19 - Because that which is known of God is manifest 1within them, for God manifested it to them.
Rom 1:20 - For the invisible things of Him, both His eternal power and 1divine characteristics, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, 2abeing perceived by the things made, so that they would be without excuse;
Rom 1:21 - Because though 1they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or thank Him, but rather became 2vain in their reasonings, and their heart, lacking understanding, was darkened.
Rom 1:22 - Professing to be wise, they became fools
Rom 1:23 - And 1achanged the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and reptiles.
Rom 1:24 - Therefore God 1gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, so that they dishonor their bodies among themselves,
Rom 1:25 - Who exchanged the 1truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is ablessed forever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 - Therefore God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature;
Rom 1:27 - And likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the female, burned in their craving toward one another, males with males committing unseemliness and fully receiving in themselves the retribution of their error which was due.
Rom 1:28 - And even as they did not approve of holding God in their full knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things which are not fitting,
Rom 1:29 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;
Rom 1:30 - Whisperers, slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 - Senseless, faithless, affectionless, merciless;
Rom 1:32 - Who, though fully knowing the 1righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also have fellow delight in those who practice them.

Romans

Chapter 2 of 16

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B.  On the self-righteous particularly — 2:1-16
Rom 2:1 - Therefore you are without excuse, O every man who 1judges, for in what you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
Rom 2:2 - But we know that the 1judgment of God is according to 2truth upon those who practice such things.
Rom 2:3 - And do you consider this, O man, who judge those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the 1judgment of God?
Rom 2:4 - Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that God’s kindness is leading you to repentance?
Rom 2:5 - But, according to your hardness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the arighteous judgment of God,
Rom 2:6 - Who will render to each according to his works:
Rom 2:7 - 1To those who by endurance in good work seek glory and honor and incorruptibility, life eternal;
Rom 2:8 - But to those who are selfishly contentious and disobedient to the 1truth and obey unrighteousness, wrath and fury.
Rom 2:9 - Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who commits evil, both of Jew first and of Greek;
Rom 2:10 - But glory and honor and peace to everyone who works good, both to Jew first and to Greek.
Rom 2:11 - For there is no respect of persons with God.
Rom 2:12 - For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned 1under the law shall be judged by the law
Rom 2:13 - (For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Rom 2:14 - For when Gentiles, who have no law, do 1by nature the things of the law, these, though they have no law, are a law to themselves,
Rom 2:15 - Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their 1conscience bearing witness with it and their reasonings, one with the other, accusing or even excusing them.)
Rom 2:16 - In the day when God judges the secrets of men according to my gospel athrough Jesus Christ.
C.  On the religious specifically — 2:17-3:8
Rom 2:17 - 1But if you bear the name of Jew, and rest upon the law, and 2boast in God,
Rom 2:18 - And know the will, and 1approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law,
Rom 2:19 - And have confidence that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness,
Rom 2:20 - One who disciplines the foolish, a teacher of 1babes, having the proper form of the knowledge and truth in the law;
Rom 2:21 - 1You therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal?
Rom 2:22 - You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob their temples?
Rom 2:23 - You who boast in the law, do you by transgression of the law dishonor God?
Rom 2:24 - For a“the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” even as it is written.
Rom 2:25 - For circumcision profits if you practice the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Rom 2:26 - If therefore the uncircumcision keeps the 1ordinances of the law, will not his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
Rom 2:27 - And the uncircumcision by nature, if he fulfills the law, will judge you who through the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.
Rom 2:28 - 1For he is anot a Jew who is one 2outwardly; neither is bcircumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
Rom 2:29 - 1But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, 2ain spirit, not 2in letter, whose praise is not 3from men, but 3from God.

Romans

Chapter 3 of 16

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Rom 3:1 - What then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the profit of the circumcision?
Rom 3:2 - Much in every way. First, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
Rom 3:3 - For what if some disbelieved? Shall their unbelief annul the faithfulness of God?
Rom 3:4 - 1Absolutely not! But let God be true and every man a liar, as it is written, a“That You may be 2declared righteous in Your words and may overcome when You are judged.”
Rom 3:5 - But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is the God who inflicts wrath unrighteous? I speak according to man.
Rom 3:6 - Absolutely not! Otherwise how shall God judge the world?
Rom 3:7 - But if the 1atruthfulness of God has abounded in my lie unto His glory, why still am I also being judged as a sinner?
Rom 3:8 - And why not say (as we are slanderously charged and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil that good may come? whose 1judgment is just.
D.  On all the world totally — 3:9-20
Rom 3:9 - What then? Are we better? Not at all! For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin,
Rom 3:10 - Even as it is written, a“There is none righteous, not even one;
Rom 3:11 - There is none who understands, there is none who seeks out God.
Rom 3:12 - All have turned aside; together they have become useless; there is none who does 1good; there is not so much as one.
Rom 3:13 - aTheir throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they practiced deceit; bthe poison of asps is under their lips;
Rom 3:14 - aWhose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Rom 3:15 - aSwift are their feet to shed blood,
Rom 3:16 - Destruction and misery are in their ways,
Rom 3:17 - And the 1way of peace they have not known.
Rom 3:18 - aThere is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Rom 3:19 - Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, 1that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may fall under the judgment of God;
Rom 3:20 - Because aout of the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Him; for bthrough the law is the clear knowledge of sin.

III.  Justification — 3:21-5:11

A.  The definition — 3:21-31
Rom 3:21 - But now, 1apart from the law, the 2righteousness of God has been 3manifested, witness being borne to it by the Law and the Prophets;
Rom 3:22 - Even the righteousness of God through the 1faith of Jesus Christ to all those who believe, for there is no distinction;
Rom 3:23 - For aall have sinned and fall short of the 1glory of God,
Rom 3:24 - Being 1justified 2freely by His grace through the 3redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
Rom 3:25 - Whom God 1set forth as a 2apropitiation place through faith in His blood, for the demonstrating of His righteousness, in that in His forbearance God 3passed over the sins that had previously occurred,
Rom 3:26 - With a view to the demonstrating of His righteousness in the present time, so that He might be righteous and the One who 1justifies him who is of the 2faith of Jesus.
Rom 3:27 - Where then is boasting? 1It is excluded. Through what kind of law? That of works? No, but through the law of faith.
Rom 3:28 - For we account that aa man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
Rom 3:29 - Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not of the Gentiles also? Yes, of the Gentiles also,
Rom 3:30 - If indeed God is one, who will justify the circumcision 1out of faith and the auncircumcision 1through faith.
Rom 3:31 - Do we then make the law of no effect through faith? Absolutely not! Rather, we establish the law.

Romans

Chapter 4 of 16

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B.  The example — 4:1-25
Rom 4:1 - 1What then shall we say that Abraham our 2forefather according to the flesh has found?
Rom 4:2 - For if Abraham was justified out of 1works, he has something to boast in, but not before God.
Rom 4:3 - For what does the Scripture say? a“And Abraham 1believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness.”
Rom 4:4 - Now to the 1one who aworks, his 2wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to what is due.
Rom 4:5 - But to the one who does not work, but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted as righteousness.
Rom 4:6 - Even as David also speaks blessing on the man to whom God accounts righteousness apart from works:
Rom 4:7 - a“Blessed are they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered over.
Rom 4:8 - aBlessed is the man to whom the Lord shall by no means account sin.”
Rom 4:9 - Is this blessing then upon the circumcision only, or also upon the uncircumcision? For we say, Faith was accounted to Abraham as righteousness.
Rom 4:10 - How then was it accounted? While he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Rom 4:11 - And he areceived the 1sign of circumcision, a seal of the 2righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those in uncircumcision who believe, that righteousness might be accounted to them also,
Rom 4:12 - And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also 1awalk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
Rom 4:13 - For it was not through the law that athe promise was made to Abraham or to his seed bthat he would be the 1heir of the world, but through the 2righteousness of faith.
Rom 4:14 - For aif those of the law are heirs, faith has been made void and the promise has been annulled;
Rom 4:15 - For athe law works out wrath; but bwhere there is no law, neither is there transgression.
Rom 4:16 - Therefore the inheritance is out of faith that it might be according to agrace, so that the promise may be certain to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the 1father of us all
Rom 4:17 - (As it is written, a“I have appointed you a father of many nations”) in the sight of God whom he 1believed, bwho 2gives life to the dead and 3calls the things not being as being.
Rom 4:18 - He beyond hope believed 1in hope in order that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, a“So shall your seed be.”
Rom 4:19 - And not weakening in his faith, he considered his own body as 1aalready dead, bbeing about a hundred years old, as well as the cdeadening of Sarah’s womb;
Rom 4:20 - But with regard to the promise of God, he did not doubt in unbelief, but was empowered by faith, giving glory to God
Rom 4:21 - And being fully persuaded that awhat He had promised He was able also to do.
Rom 4:22 - Therefore also it was accounted to him as righteousness.
Rom 4:23 - Now it was not written for his sake only that it was accounted to him,
Rom 4:24 - But for ours also to whom it is to be accounted, who believe on 1Him who has raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
Rom 4:25 - Who was delivered for our offenses and was 1raised afor our justification.

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Chapter 5 of 16

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C.  The result — 5:1-11
Rom 5:1 - Therefore having been ajustified out of faith, we have bpeace 1toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Rom 5:2 - Through whom also we have obtained access by 1faith into this 2agrace in which we 3stand and 4boast because of the 5bhope of the cglory of God.
Rom 5:3 - And not only so, but we also boast in our 1tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces 2endurance;
Rom 5:4 - And endurance, 1approvedness; and approvedness, ahope;
Rom 5:5 - And hope does not put us to shame, because the 1alove of God has been bpoured out in our chearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Rom 5:6 - For while we were yet 1weak, in due time Christ adied for the ungodly.
Rom 5:7 - For scarcely for a righteous man will anyone die, though perhaps for the good man someone would even dare to die.
Rom 5:8 - But God commends His own alove to us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ bdied for us.
Rom 5:9 - Much more then, having now been justified in His ablood, we will be saved through Him from the bwrath.
Rom 5:10 - For if we, being enemies, were 1areconciled to God through the death of His Son, 2much more we will be 3saved 4in His 5blife, having been reconciled,
Rom 5:11 - And not only so, but also 1boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the areconciliation.

IV.  Sanctification — 5:12-8:13

A.  The gift in Christ surpassing the heritage in Adam—two men, two acts, and two results with four reigning things — 5:12-21
Rom 5:12 - Therefore just as through 1aone man 2bsin entered into the 3world, and cthrough sin, 4death; and thus 4ddeath passed on to all men because all have sinned—
Rom 5:13 - For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not 1charged to one’s account when there is no alaw.
Rom 5:14 - But 1adeath reigned from 2Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam’s 3transgression, bwho is a 4type of Him who was to come.
Rom 5:15 - But it is not that as the offense was, so also the gracious gift is; for if by the offense of the aone the many died, much more the grace of God and the free gift in grace of the one 1bman Jesus Christ have 2abounded to the many.
Rom 5:16 - And it is not that as through one who sinned, so also the free 1gift is; for the judgment was out of one offense unto condemnation, but the gracious gift is out of many offenses unto ajustification.
Rom 5:17 - For if, by the offense of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the 1abundance of grace and of the gift of 2righteousness will 3reign in 4life through the One, Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:18 - So then as it was through one offense unto condemnation to all men, so also it was through one 1righteous act unto justification of 2life to all men.
Rom 5:19 - For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were 1constituted sinners, so also through the 2obedience of the One the many will be 1constituted righteous.
Rom 5:20 - And the alaw entered in alongside that the offense might 1abound; but where sin 1abounded, grace has superabounded,
Rom 5:21 - In order that just as 1asin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through 2righteousness unto beternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans

Chapter 6 of 16

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B.  Identification with Christ — 6:1-23
1.  Identified — vv. 1-5
Rom 6:1 - What then shall we say? aShould we continue in sin that bgrace may abound?
Rom 6:2 - Absolutely not! We who have adied to sin, how shall we still live in it?
Rom 6:3 - Or are you ignorant that all of us who have been 1abaptized into 2Christ Jesus have been 1baptized into 3His death?
Rom 6:4 - We have been 1aburied therefore with Him through 2baptism into His death, in order that just as Christ was braised from the dead through the 3cglory of the Father, so also we might 4walk in dnewness of elife.
Rom 6:5 - For if we have 1grown together with Him in the 2likeness of His death, indeed we will also be 3in the 2likeness of His resurrection,
2.  Knowing — vv. 6-10
Rom 6:6 - 1Knowing this, that our 2old man has been 3acrucified with Him in order that the 4bbody of sin might be 5annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves;
Rom 6:7 - For he who has died is justified from 1sin.
Rom 6:8 - Now if we have adied 1with Christ, we believe that we will also blive 1with Him,
Rom 6:9 - Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, adies 1no more; death lords it over Him no more.
Rom 6:10 - For the death which He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life which He lives, He lives to God.
3.  Reckoning — v. 11
Rom 6:11 - So also you, 1reckon yourselves to be adead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
4.  Presenting — vv. 12-23
Rom 6:12 - 1Do not let asin therefore reign in your mortal body so that you obey 2the body’s blusts;
Rom 6:13 - Neither apresent your bmembers as cweapons of unrighteousness to sin, but 1present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as 2weapons of righteousness to God.
Rom 6:14 - For asin will not 1lord it over you, 2for you are 3not under the law but under bgrace.
Rom 6:15 - What then? aShould we sin, because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not!
Rom 6:16 - Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, his slaves you are whom you obey, whether of sin 1unto death or of obedience 1unto righteousness?
Rom 6:17 - But thanks be to God that though you were aslaves of sin, you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which you were delivered.
Rom 6:18 - And having been 1afreed from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness.
Rom 6:19 - I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now apresent your members as slaves to righteousness 1unto 2bsanctification.
Rom 6:20 - For when you were aslaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
Rom 6:21 - What fruit then did you have at that time? Things of which you are now ashamed, for the end of those things is death.
Rom 6:22 - But now, having been afreed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto 1bsanctification, and the end, ceternal 2life.
Rom 6:23 - For the 1wages of sin is 2adeath, but the gift of God is 3beternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans

Chapter 7 of 16

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C.  Bondage in the flesh by the indwelling sin — 7:1-25
1.  Two husbands — vv. 1-6
Rom 7:1 - Or are you ignorant, brothers (for I speak to those who know the law), that the 1law lords it over the man as long as he lives?
Rom 7:2 - For the married woman is bound by the 1law to her 2husband while he is living; but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the 1law regarding the husband.
Rom 7:3 - So then if, while the husband is living, she is joined to 1another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to 1another man.
Rom 7:4 - So then, my brothers, 1you also ahave been made dead to the law through the body of Christ so that 1you might be 2joined to banother, to Him who has been raised from the dead, that we might 3bear fruit to God.
Rom 7:5 - For when we were in the flesh, the passions for sins, which acted through the law, operated in our members to bear fruit to death.
Rom 7:6 - But now we have been 1discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we 2serve in 3newness of 4spirit and not in oldness of letter.
2.  Three laws — vv. 7-25
Rom 7:7 - What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! But 1I did not aknow sin except through the 2law; for neither did I know coveting, except the law had said, 3b“You shall not covet.”
Rom 7:8 - But 1sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, worked out in me coveting of every kind; for without the law sin is dead.
Rom 7:9 - And I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Rom 7:10 - And the commandment, which was unto life, this very commandment was found to me to be unto 1death.
Rom 7:11 - For sin, seizing the opportunity 1through the commandment, adeceived me and bthrough it killed me.
Rom 7:12 - So then the law is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.
Rom 7:13 - Did then that which is good become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin did, that it might 1be shown to be sin by working out death in me through that which is good, that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
Rom 7:14 - For we 1know that the law is 2spiritual; but I am 3fleshy, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15 - For what I work out, I 1do not acknowledge; for what I will, this I do not practice; but what I hate, this I do.
Rom 7:16 - But if what I do not will, this I do, I agree with the law that it is good.
Rom 7:17 - Now then it is ano longer I that work it out but sin that 1dwells in me.
Rom 7:18 - For I 1know that in me, that is, in my 2flesh, 3nothing good dwells; for 4to will is present with me, but to work out the good is not.
Rom 7:19 - For I do not do the good which I will; but the evil which I do not will, this I practice.
Rom 7:20 - But if what I do not will, this I do, it is ano longer I that work it out but sin that dwells in me.
Rom 7:21 - I find then 1the law with me who wills to do the good, that is, the 2evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22 - For I delight in the 1law of God according to the inner man,
Rom 7:23 - But I see a different 1law in my members, 2warring against the law of my mind and making me a 3captive to the alaw of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24 - 1Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from 2the body of 3this death?
Rom 7:25 - aThanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then 1with the mind I myself 2serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the 3law of sin.

Romans

Chapter 8 of 16

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D.  Freedom in the Spirit by the indwelling Christ — 8:1-13
1.  The law of the Spirit of life — vv. 1-6
Rom 8:1 - There is 1now then no 2condemnation to those who are 3in Christ Jesus.
Rom 8:2 - For the 1law of the 2Spirit of 3life has 4freed 5me in Christ Jesus from the 6alaw of sin and of death.
Rom 8:3 - For that which the 1law could 2not do, in that it was aweak through the flesh, God, sending His own Son in the 3likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
Rom 8:4 - That the righteous requirement of the law might be 1fulfilled in us, who do not 2awalk according to the flesh but according to the 3spirit.
Rom 8:5 - For those who are according to the flesh mind the 1things of the flesh; but those who are 2according to the spirit, the 3things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 - For 1the mind set on the flesh is 2death, but 3the mind set on the spirit is 2alife and bpeace.
2.  The indwelling Christ — vv. 7-13
Rom 8:7 - Because the mind set on the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, for neither can it be.
Rom 8:8 - And 1those who are 2in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9 - But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the 1Spirit of God 2dwells in you. Yet 3if anyone does not have the 4aSpirit of Christ, he is not 5of Him.
Rom 8:10 - But if 1aChrist is 2in you, though the 3body is 4dead because of sin, the 5spirit is 6life because of 7righteousness.
Rom 8:11 - And if the 1Spirit of 2the One who raised Jesus from the dead 3adwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also 4bgive life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who 3indwells you.
Rom 8:12 - So then, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to 1live according to the flesh;
Rom 8:13 - For if you live according to the flesh, you must 1die, but if by the Spirit you 2aput to death the 3practices of the body, you will live.

V.  Glorification — 8:14-39

A.  Heirs of glory — vv. 14-27
Rom 8:14 - For as many as are 1led by the 2Spirit of God, these are 3asons of God.
Rom 8:15 - For you have not received a spirit of slavery bringing you into fear again, but you have received a 1aspirit of sonship in which we bcry, 2Abba, Father!
Rom 8:16 - The Spirit Himself awitnesses 1with 2our bspirit that 3we are cchildren of God.
Rom 8:17 - And if children, aheirs also; on the one hand, heirs of God; on the other, joint heirs with Christ, 1if indeed we bsuffer with Him that we may also be cglorified with Him.
Rom 8:18 - For I 1consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming aglory to be revealed 2upon us.
Rom 8:19 - For the 1anxious watching of the creation eagerly awaits the 2revelation of the sons of God.
Rom 8:20 - For the creation was made subject to avanity, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it,
Rom 8:21 - In hope that the creation itself will also be 1freed from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the aglory of the children of God.
Rom 8:22 - For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.
Rom 8:23 - And not only so, but we ourselves also, who have 1the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves 2groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting 3asonship, the bredemption of our body.
Rom 8:24 - For we were saved in hope. But a ahope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?
Rom 8:25 - But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it through endurance.
Rom 8:26 - Moreover, 1in like manner the Spirit also joins in to help us in our 2weakness, for we do not know for what we should pray as is fitting, but the Spirit Himself aintercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Rom 8:27 - But He who searches the hearts knows what the 1mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints 2according to God.
B.  Heirs conformed — vv. 28-30
Rom 8:28 - And we know that 1all things 2work together for 3good to those who 4love God, to those who are acalled according to His 5purpose.
Rom 8:29 - Because those whom He 1foreknew, He also 2apredestinated to be 3conformed to the bimage of His Son, that He might be the 4cFirstborn among 5many dbrothers;
Rom 8:30 - And those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also 1ajustified; and those whom He justified, these He also 2bglorified.
C.  Heirs inseparable from God's love — vv. 31-39
Rom 8:31 - What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Rom 8:32 - Indeed, He who did not spare His own Son, but adelivered Him up for us all, how shall He not also with Him freely give us ball things?
Rom 8:33 - Who shall bring a acharge against God’s chosen ones? 1It is God who bjustifies.
Rom 8:34 - Who is he who condemns? 1It is Christ Jesus who adied and, rather, who bwas raised, who is also 2cat the right hand of God, who also 3dintercedes for us.
Rom 8:35 - Who shall separate us from the alove of Christ? Shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?
Rom 8:36 - As it is written, a“For Your sake we are being bput to death all day long; we have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.”
Rom 8:37 - But in all these things we 1more than conquer through Him who loved us.
Rom 8:38 - For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor things present nor things to come nor powers
Rom 8:39 - Nor height nor depth nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the 1alove of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Chapter 9 of 16

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VI.  Selection — 9:1-11:36

A.  God's selection, our destiny — 9:1-10:21
1.  Of God who calls — 9:1-13
Rom 9:1 - 1I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my 2conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
Rom 9:2 - That I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart.
Rom 9:3 - For I could wish that I myself were a 1curse, separated from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
Rom 9:4 - Who are Israelites, whose are the 1asonship and the bglory and the ccovenants and the dgiving of the law and the 2eservice and the fpromises;
Rom 9:5 - Whose are the fathers, and out of whom, as regards what is according to flesh, is the Christ, who is 1aGod bover all, cblessed forever. Amen.
Rom 9:6 - But it is not as though the word of God has fallen away, for 1anot all who are out of Israel are Israel;
Rom 9:7 - Neither is it that because they are the seed of aAbraham, they are all children; but, b“In Isaac shall your seed be called,”
Rom 9:8 - That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are the achildren of God, but the bchildren of the promise are accounted as the seed.
Rom 9:9 - For this is the word of promise, a“At this time next year I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”
Rom 9:10 - And not only so, but aRebecca also, having conceived by one, Isaac our father,
Rom 9:11 - Though the children had not yet been born nor had done anything good or bad (that the 1purpose of God according to aselection might remain, not of works but of Him who bcalls),
Rom 9:12 - It was said to her, a“The greater shall 1serve the less”;
Rom 9:13 - As it is written, a“Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”
2.  Of God's mercy — 9:14-18
Rom 9:14 - What then shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? Absolutely not!
Rom 9:15 - For to Moses He says, 1a“I will have 2bmercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have 2ccompassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
Rom 9:16 - So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
Rom 9:17 - For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, a“For this very thing I have raised you up, that I might show in you My power, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
Rom 9:18 - So then He has mercy on whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.
3.  Of God's sovereignty — 9:19-29
Rom 9:19 - You will say to me then, Why does He still find fault? For who withstands His will?
Rom 9:20 - But rather, aO man, who are you who answer back to God? Shall the thing molded say to him who molded it, Why did you make me thus?
Rom 9:21 - Or does not the apotter have authority over the clay to make out of the same lump one 1bvessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?
Rom 9:22 - And what if God, wishing to demonstrate His awrath and make His power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
Rom 9:23 - In order that He might make known the ariches of His glory upon bvessels of cmercy, which He had before prepared unto 1dglory,
Rom 9:24 - Even us, whom He has also acalled, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles?
Rom 9:25 - As He also says in Hosea, a“I will call those who were not My people My people, and her who was not beloved beloved;
Rom 9:26 - And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, aYou are not My people, there shall they be called sons of the living God.”
Rom 9:27 - And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, a“Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved;
Rom 9:28 - For the Lord will execute His word upon the earth, accomplishing it and cutting it short.”
Rom 9:29 - And as Isaiah has previously said, a“Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like bSodom and been made like Gomorrah.”
4.  Through the righteousness which is out of faith — 9:30-10:3
Rom 9:30 - What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have laid hold of righteousness, but a righteousness which is out of faith;
Rom 9:31 - But aIsrael, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to that law.
Rom 9:32 - Why? Because they pursued it not aout of faith, but as it were out of works. They stumbled at the bstone of stumbling,
Rom 9:33 - As it is written, a“Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, a rock of offense, and he who believes on Him shall not be put to shame.”

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Chapter 10 of 16

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Rom 10:1 - Brothers, the good pleasure of my heart and my petition to God for them is for their asalvation.
Rom 10:2 - For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to full knowledge;
Rom 10:3 - For because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to 1establish their own righteousness, they were not subject to the arighteousness of God.
5.  Through Christ — 10:4-21
a.  Christ, the end of the law — v. 4
Rom 10:4 - For Christ is the 1aend of the law unto righteousness to everyone who believes.
b.  Christ, incarnated and resurrected — vv. 5-7
Rom 10:5 - For Moses writes concerning the righteousness which is out of the law: a“The man who does them shall live by them.”
Rom 10:6 - But the righteousness which is out of faith speaks in this way, a“Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into bheaven?” that is, to 1bring Christ down;
Rom 10:7 - Or, “Who will descend into the 1abyss?” that is, to 2bring Christ up from the dead.
c.  Christ, who is near — v. 8
Rom 10:8 - But what does it say? 1a“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of the faith which we proclaim,
d.  Christ, believed in and called upon — vv. 9-13
Rom 10:9 - That if you aconfess with your 1mouth bJesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God has 2craised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
Rom 10:10 - For 1with the heart there is believing 2unto righteousness, and 1with the mouth there is confession 2unto salvation.
Rom 10:11 - For the Scripture says, a“Everyone who believes on Him shall not be put to shame.”
Rom 10:12 - For there is no distinction between aJew and Greek, for the same Lord is bLord of all and 1crich to all who dcall upon Him;
Rom 10:13 - For a“whoever 1calls upon the name of the Lord shall be 2bsaved.”
e.  Christ, proclaimed and heard — vv. 14-15
Rom 10:14 - How then shall they call upon Him into whom they have not 1believed? And how shall they believe into Him of whom they have not 2heard? And how shall they hear without one who proclaims Him?
Rom 10:15 - And how shall they proclaim Him unless they are sent? As it is written, a“How beautiful are the bfeet of those who announce the news of good things!”
f.  Christ, received or rejected — vv. 16-21
Rom 10:16 - But not all have 1aobeyed the gospel, for Isaiah says, b“Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”
Rom 10:17 - So faith comes out of ahearing, and hearing through the bword of Christ.
Rom 10:18 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes surely: a“Their voice has gone out into all the earth and their words to the ends of the inhabited earth.”
Rom 10:19 - But I say, Did Israel not know this? First, Moses says, a“I will bprovoke you to jealousy by them who are not a nation; by a nation without understanding I will anger you.”
Rom 10:20 - And Isaiah is very bold and says, a“I was found by those who did not seek Me; I became manifest to those who did not ask for Me.”
Rom 10:21 - But with regard to Israel he says, a“All the day long I have stretched out My hands to a people who disobey and contradict.”

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Chapter 11 of 16

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B.  The economy in God's selection — 11:1-32
1.  A remnant reserved by grace — vv. 1-10
Rom 11:1 - I say then, Has God 1cast away His people? Absolutely not! For aI also am an Israelite, out of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Rom 11:2 - God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage concerning Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
Rom 11:3 - a“Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars; and I am left alone, and they are seeking my 1life.”
Rom 11:4 - But what does the divine answer say to him? a“I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to 1bBaal.”
Rom 11:5 - In the same way then at the present time also there has come into being a remnant according to the aselection of grace.
Rom 11:6 - But if by agrace, it is no longer out of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.
Rom 11:7 - What then? That which aIsrael is seeking after, this it has not obtained, but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest have been bhardened;
Rom 11:8 - As it is written, a“God gave them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes to see not and ears to hear not, until this very day.”
Rom 11:9 - And David says, a“Let their table become a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a retribution to them;
Rom 11:10 - aLet their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see; and bend their back continually.”
2.  The Gentiles saved through Israel's stumbling — vv. 11-22
Rom 11:11 - I say then, Have they 1stumbled so as to fall? Absolutely not! But by their misstep salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
Rom 11:12 - But if their misstep has become riches for the world, and their loss, riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness be!
Rom 11:13 - But I am speaking to you, the Gentiles. Inasmuch therefore as I am an apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
Rom 11:14 - If perhaps I may provoke those of my flesh to jealousy and save some of them.
Rom 11:15 - For if their being cast aside is the reconciliation of the world, what will their being received back be, if not life from the dead?
Rom 11:16 - Now if the adough offered as the 1firstfruits is holy, the lump is also; and if the 1root is holy, the branches are also.
Rom 11:17 - But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were 1grafted in among them and became a fellow partaker of the root of fatness of the 2aolive tree,
Rom 11:18 - Do not boast against the branches; but if you boast, remember that it is not you who bear the root, but the root you.
Rom 11:19 - You will say then, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.
Rom 11:20 - Rightly said: they were broken off because of aunbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be high-minded, but fear;
Rom 11:21 - For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you.
Rom 11:22 - Behold then the kindness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but on you, the akindness of God, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be bcut off.
3.  Israel restored through the Gentiles' receiving mercy — vv. 23-32
Rom 11:23 - And they also, if they do not continue in aunbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able 1to graft them in again.
Rom 11:24 - For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted contrary to nature into the cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own aolive tree!
Rom 11:25 - For I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery (lest you be wise in yourselves), that ahardness has come upon Israel in part, until the fullness of the 1Gentiles comes in;
Rom 11:26 - And thus all Israel will be saved, as it is written, a“The Deliverer will come out of Zion; He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
Rom 11:27 - And this is the covenant from Me with them, when I take away their sins.”
Rom 11:28 - According to the gospel they are enemies 1for your sake, but according to the aselection they are beloved 1for the fathers’ sake.
Rom 11:29 - For the agracious gifts and the bcalling of God are irrevocable.
Rom 11:30 - For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have been shown amercy because of their disobedience,
Rom 11:31 - So these also now have disobeyed, so that because of the mercy shown to you they also now may be shown mercy.
Rom 11:32 - For God has ashut up all in disobedience that He might 1show bmercy to all.
C.  The praise for God's selection — 11:33-36
Rom 11:33 - 1Oh, the adepth of the briches and 2cwisdom and dknowledge of God! How eunsearchable are His judgments and untraceable His ways!
Rom 11:34 - aFor who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has become His counselor?
Rom 11:35 - Or who has first given to Him, and it will be repaid to him?
Rom 11:36 - Because aout from Him and bthrough Him and cto Him are all things. dTo Him be the glory forever. Amen.

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Chapter 12 of 16

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VII.  Transformation — 12:1-15:13

A.  In practicing the Body life — 12:1-21
1.  By the presenting of our bodies — v. 1
Rom 12:1 - 1I 2aexhort you therefore, brothers, through the 3bcompassions of God to 4cpresent your bodies a 5living dsacrifice, holy, ewell pleasing to God, which is your 6reasonable 7fservice.
2.  By the renewing of the mind — vv. 2-3
Rom 12:2 - And do 1not be afashioned according to 2this bage, but be 3ctransformed by the 4drenewing of the emind that you may 5fprove what the 6gwill of God is, that which is good and hwell pleasing and perfect.
Rom 12:3 - For I say, through the agrace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to 1think more bhighly of himself than he ought to think, but to think so as to be csober-minded, as God has apportioned to each a dmeasure of faith.
3.  By the exercising of the gifts — vv. 4-8
Rom 12:4 - For just as in aone body we have bmany members, and all the members do not have the csame 1function,
Rom 12:5 - So we who are many are one Body 1in Christ, and individually 2amembers one of another.
Rom 12:6 - And having 1agifts that differ according to the bgrace given to us, whether 2cprophecy, let us prophesy according to the dproportion of faith;
Rom 12:7 - Or 1service, let us be faithful in that service; or he who ateaches, in that teaching;
Rom 12:8 - Or he who aexhorts, in that exhortation; he who 1bgives, in simplicity; he who 2cleads, in diligence; he who 3shows dmercy, in cheerfulness.
4.  By the living of a life of the highest virtues — vv. 9-21
Rom 12:9 - 1Let alove be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; bcling to what is good.
Rom 12:10 - aLove one another warmly in brotherly love; take the lead in showing honor one to another.
Rom 12:11 - Do not be slothful in zeal, but be 1aburning in spirit, 2bserving the Lord.
Rom 12:12 - Rejoice in hope; aendure in tribulation; bpersevere in prayer.
Rom 12:13 - 1aContribute to the needs of the saints; pursue bhospitality.
Rom 12:14 - 1aBless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
Rom 12:15 - 1Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
Rom 12:16 - Be of the asame mind toward one another, not bsetting your mind on the high things but going along with the 1lowly; do not be cwise in yourselves.
Rom 12:17 - aRepay no one evil for evil; 1btake forethought for things honorable in the sight of all men.
Rom 12:18 - If possible, as far as it depends on you, live in apeace with all men.
Rom 12:19 - Do not 1avenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath of God, for it is written, a“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Rom 12:20 - aBut “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will heap coals of fire upon his head.”
Rom 12:21 - Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.

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Chapter 13 of 16

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B.  In being subject to authorities — 13:1-7
Rom 13:1 - Let every 1person be 2asubject to the authorities over him, for bthere is no authority except 3from God, and those which exist are 4ordained by God.
Rom 13:2 - So then he who resists the authority opposes God’s ordination, and those who oppose will receive 1judgment to themselves.
Rom 13:3 - For the arulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you want to have no fear of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from him;
Rom 13:4 - For he is a 1servant of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, fear; he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is a 1servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who practices evil.
Rom 13:5 - Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience.
Rom 13:6 - For because of this you also pay taxes; for they are God’s 1officers, attending constantly to this very thing.
Rom 13:7 - aRender to all the things due: tax to whom tax is due, custom to whom custom is due, fear to whom fear is due, honor to whom honor is due.
C.  In practicing love — 13:8-10
Rom 13:8 - Owe nothing to anyone except to alove one another; for he who 1loves the other has bfulfilled the law.
Rom 13:9 - For, a“You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, b“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Rom 13:10 - aLove does not work evil to his neighbor; therefore love is the bfulfillment of the law.
D.  In waging the warfare — 13:11-14
Rom 13:11 - And this, knowing the atime, that it is already the hour for you to be braised from sleep; for now is our 1salvation cnearer than when we believed.
Rom 13:12 - The 1night is far advanced, and the aday has drawn near. Let us therefore cast off the bworks of darkness, and let us put on the cweapons of light.
Rom 13:13 - Let us walk becomingly as in the aday; not in breveling and cdrunkenness, not in fornication and licentiousness, not in dstrife and ejealousy.
Rom 13:14 - But 1aput on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no 2provision for the bflesh to fulfill its lusts.

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Chapter 14 of 16

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E.  In receiving the believers — 14:1-15:13
1.  According to God's receiving — 14:1-9
Rom 14:1 - 1Now him who is aweak in faith 2breceive, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his 3considerations.
Rom 14:2 - One believes that he may eat all things, but he who is weak aeats vegetables.
Rom 14:3 - He who eats, let him 1not despise him who does not eat; and he who does not eat, let him 1not judge him who eats, for 2God has received him.
Rom 14:4 - Who are you who judge another’s household servant? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will be made to stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
Rom 14:5 - One judges one aday above another; another judges every day alike. Let each be fully bpersuaded in his own mind.
Rom 14:6 - He who regards that day, regards it to the Lord; and he who eats, aeats to the Lord, for he gives bthanks to God; and he who does not eat, does not eat to the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.
Rom 14:7 - For none of us alives to himself, and none dies to himself;
Rom 14:8 - For whether we live, we alive to the Lord, and whether we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore whether we live or we die, we are the bLord’s.
Rom 14:9 - For Christ adied and lived again for this, that He might be bLord both of the dead and of the living.
2.  In the light of the judgment seat — 14:10-12
Rom 14:10 - But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the 1ajudgment seat of God,
Rom 14:11 - For it is written, a“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall openly confess to God.”
Rom 14:12 - So then each one of us will agive an account concerning himself to God.
3.  In the principle of love — 14:13-15
Rom 14:13 - Therefore let us ajudge one another no longer, but rather judge this: bnot to put a stumbling block or cause of falling before your brother.
Rom 14:14 - I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that there is anothing 1unclean of itself, except to him who considers something to be 1unclean; to that man it is 1unclean.
Rom 14:15 - For if because of food your brother is 1wounded, you no longer awalk according to love. Do not bdestroy by your food that man for whom Christ died.
4.  For the kingdom life — 14:16-23
Rom 14:16 - Therefore do not let your agood be slandered;
Rom 14:17 - For the 1akingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but 2brighteousness and cpeace and djoy in the Holy Spirit.
Rom 14:18 - For he who 1aserves Christ in this is well pleasing to God and approved by men.
Rom 14:19 - So then let us 1apursue the things of peace and the things for bbuilding up one another.
Rom 14:20 - Do not abreak down the 1work of God for the sake of food. bAll things indeed are clean, but it is evil for a man to eat while cstumbling others.
Rom 14:21 - It is good anot to eat meat nor drink wine nor to do anything by which your brother stumbles.
Rom 14:22 - The faith which you have, have to yourself before God. Blessed is he who does not judge himself in what he approves;
Rom 14:23 - But he who adoubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not out of faith; for all that is not out of faith is sin.

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Chapter 15 of 16

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5.  According to Christ — 15:1-13
Rom 15:1 - But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those who are aweak and not to please ourselves.
Rom 15:2 - Let each of us please his neighbor with a view to what is good for abuilding up.
Rom 15:3 - For Christ also did not please Himself, but as it is written, a“The reproaches of those who reproached You fell upon Me.”
Rom 15:4 - For the things that were awritten previously were written for our instruction, in order that through endurance and through the 1encouragement of the Scriptures we might have bhope.
Rom 15:5 - Now the aGod of endurance and encouragement grant you to be of the bsame mind toward one another according to 1cChrist Jesus,
Rom 15:6 - That 1with aone accord you may with bone mouth cglorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 15:7 - Therefore areceive one another, as 1Christ also received you to the glory of God.
Rom 15:8 - For I say that Christ has become a 1servant of the circumcision for the sake of God’s 2atruthfulness, to confirm the bpromises given to the fathers,
Rom 15:9 - And that the Gentiles should glorify God for His amercy, as it is written, b“Therefore I will 1extol You among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to Your name.”
Rom 15:10 - And again he says, a“Rejoice, Gentiles, with His people.”
Rom 15:11 - And again, a“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples speak praise to Him.”
Rom 15:12 - And again, Isaiah says, a“There shall be the 1broot of Jesse, even He who rises to rule the Gentiles; con Him will the Gentiles hope.”
Rom 15:13 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and apeace in believing, that you may abound in bhope in the cpower of the Holy Spirit.

VIII.  Conclusion—the consummation of the gospel — 15:14-16:27

A.  The Gentiles offered — 15:14-24
Rom 15:14 - But I myself also am persuaded concerning you, my brothers, that you yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
Rom 15:15 - But I have written the more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you of them again because of the agrace given to me by God
Rom 15:16 - That I might be a 1minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a 2laboring 3apriest of the gospel of God, in order that the boffering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been csanctified in the Holy Spirit.
Rom 15:17 - I have therefore my 1aboasting in Christ Jesus bin the things pertaining to God.
Rom 15:18 - For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which aChrist has not accomplished through me for the bobedience of the Gentiles, by word and by work,
Rom 15:19 - In the power of asigns and wonders, in the bpower of the Spirit of God; so that cfrom Jerusalem and round about to 1Illyricum, I have 2dfully preached the gospel of Christ,
Rom 15:20 - But have done so aspiring to announce the gospel not where Christ has been named, so that I would not build upon aanother’s foundation;
Rom 15:21 - But as it is written, a“They will see, they to whom nothing concerning Him was announced; and those who have not heard will understand.”
Rom 15:22 - For this reason also I have been ahindered these many times from coming to you.
Rom 15:23 - But now I no longer have place in these regions and have had a desire since many years ago to acome to you
Rom 15:24 - Whenever I may go to 1aSpain, for I hope to see you in passing and be bsent forward there by you, if first I am cfilled, at least in part, by your company.
B.  The communication between the Gentile and Jewish saints — 15:25-33
Rom 15:25 - But now I am agoing to Jerusalem, 1bministering to the saints.
Rom 15:26 - For aMacedonia and bAchaia have been pleased to make some 1contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
Rom 15:27 - For they were pleased to do it, and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have shared in their aspiritual things, they ought also to 1do service to them in material things.
Rom 15:28 - When therefore I have finished this and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to aSpain.
Rom 15:29 - And I know that when I come to you, I will acome in the 1fullness of the blessing of Christ.
Rom 15:30 - Now I aexhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the blove of the Spirit, to cstrive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
Rom 15:31 - That I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my 1aservice for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
Rom 15:32 - So that coming to you in joy through the awill of God, I may brefresh myself and rest with you.
Rom 15:33 - Now the aGod of peace be with you all. Amen.

Romans

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C.  The concern between the churches — 16:1-24
Rom 16:1 - I 1commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a adeaconess of the 2church which is in bCenchrea,
Rom 16:2 - That you areceive her in the Lord in a manner 1worthy of the saints and assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself has also been the 2patroness of many, of myself as well.
Rom 16:3 - Greet aPrisca and aAquila, my bfellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Rom 16:4 - Who 1risked their own necks for my 2life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the 3achurches of the Gentiles;
Rom 16:5 - And greet the 1achurch, which is in their 2house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the firstfruits of Asia unto Christ.
Rom 16:6 - Greet Mary, one who has labored much for you.
Rom 16:7 - Greet Andronicus and Junia, my akinsmen and my bfellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
Rom 16:8 - Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.
Rom 16:9 - Greet Urbanus, our afellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.
Rom 16:10 - Greet Apelles, 1approved in Christ. Greet 2those of the household of Aristobulus.
Rom 16:11 - Greet Herodion, my akinsman. Greet 1those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.
Rom 16:12 - Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved sister, one who has labored much in the Lord.
Rom 16:13 - Greet aRufus, bchosen in the Lord, and his mother as well as 1mine.
Rom 16:14 - Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers with them.
Rom 16:15 - Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them.
Rom 16:16 - Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the 1achurches of Christ greet you.
Rom 16:17 - Now I aexhort you, brothers, to bmark those who make cdivisions and causes of 1stumbling contrary to the dteaching which you have learned, and 2eturn away from them.
Rom 16:18 - For such men do not 1aserve our Lord Christ, but their own 2bstomach, and through csmooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the 3simple.
Rom 16:19 - For the report of your aobedience has reached to all; therefore I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and guileless as to what is evil.
Rom 16:20 - Now the aGod of peace will 1bcrush Satan cunder your feet shortly. The 2dgrace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
Rom 16:21 - aTimothy, my bfellow worker, greets you, as well as Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my ckinsmen.
Rom 16:22 - I, Tertius, who write this epistle, greet you in the Lord.
Rom 16:23 - aGaius, my host and host of the whole church, greets you. bErastus, the city treasurer, greets you, and Quartus the brother.
Rom 16:24 - See note 241.
D.  The concluding praise — 16:25-27
Rom 16:25 - aNow to Him who is able to 1bestablish you according to 2cmy gospel, that is, the dproclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the 3emystery, which has been kept in silence in the 4times of the ages
Rom 16:26 - But has now been manifested, and through the aprophetic writings, according to the command of the 1beternal God, has been made known to all the Gentiles for the cobedience of faith;
Rom 16:27 - To the aonly 1wise God through Jesus Christ, to Him be the bglory forever and ever. Amen.
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