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Romans 15:22-33

Romans 15:22-33

Paul plans to carry the Gentile churches' gift to poor believers in Jerusalem before traveling through Rome toward Spain. He asks the Romans to partne...

Romans 15:7-21

Romans 15:7-21

Christ fulfills God's promises to Israel and extends mercy and hope to the Gentiles, so believers receive one another and glorify God together. Paul t...

Romans 14:14-15:6

Romans 14:14-15:6

Strong and weak believers must reject both contemptuous liberty and coercive legalism. Christlike love willingly bears with another's conscience, purs...

Romans 14:1-13

Romans 14:1-13

Believers with strong and weak consciences may hold different convictions about indifferent matters, but neither may despise or judge the other. Each ...

Romans 13

Romans 13

Romans 13 calls Christians to submit to governing authorities under God's supreme rule, fulfill the law by loving their neighbors, and wake from spiri...

Romans 12:9-21

Romans 12:9-21

The transformed Christian life is marked by sincere love: clinging to good, serving diligently, enduring tribulation prayerfully, practicing hospitali...

Romans 12:1-8

Romans 12:1-8

In view of God's mercies, Christians offer their whole embodied lives as living sacrifices, resisting conformity to the world through renewed minds. W...

Romans 11:11-36

Romans 11:11-36

Gentile believers are wild olive branches grafted into God's cultivated tree through Israel's unbelief, so they must not boast over the broken natural...

Romans 10:14-11:10

Romans 10:14–11:10

People must hear the Word through sent gospel preachers in order to believe and call upon Christ, yet many in Israel reject the God who stretches out ...

Romans 9:30-10:13

Romans 9:30-10:13

Gentiles attain righteousness by faith while Israel stumbles by seeking righteousness through law-keeping. God's righteousness is embodied in Jesus Ch...

Romans 9:14-29

Romans 9:14-29

God is not unrighteous in sovereignly showing mercy: fallen people deserve judgment, while compassion is his free gift rather than a human achievement...

Romans 9:1-13

Romans 9:1-13

Paul grieves deeply for unbelieving Israel despite all its covenant privileges and Christ's coming from Israel according to the flesh. God's promise h...

Romans 8:31-39

Romans 8:31-39

Believers can have complete confidence in God because the Father justifies, Christ died, rose, and intercedes, and the Spirit also intercedes. Trials,...

Romans 8:18-30

Romans 8:18-30

Creation and believers groan under present suffering while eagerly awaiting bodily redemption. Christian hope rests in God's promises: the Spirit help...

Romans 8:1-17

Romans 8:1-17

Romans 8:1-17

No Condemnation

Those who are in Christ are no longer condemned or enslaved to sin. God sent his Son to accomplish what the law could not, and the Spirit who raised J...

Romans 7:13-25

Romans 7:13-25

There is no condemnation for those in Christ. What the law could not accomplish through sinful flesh, God accomplished by sending his Son; he now give...

Romans 7:1-12

Romans 7:1-12

Through Christ believers have died to the law's condemnation, are united to the risen Christ, and bear fruit to God in the Spirit. The law itself rema...

Romans 6:15-23

Romans 6:15-23

Freedom from the law never means freedom to sin: everyone serves the master they obey. Grace transfers believers from slavery to sin and death into be...

Romans 6:1-14

Romans 6:1-14

Grace never licenses continued sin because those united to Christ have been baptized into his death and raised into new life. The old self was crucifi...

Romans 5:12-21

Romans 5:12-21

Adam's one transgression brought sin, death, condemnation, and radical corruption to those he represented. Jesus Christ, the better representative and...

Romans 5:1-11

Romans 5:1-11

Justified by faith, believers have peace and access to grace through Jesus and can rejoice even in tribulation as God produces perseverance, character...

Romans 4:13-25

Romans 4:13-25

God's promise to Abraham came through faith and grace rather than the law. Abraham trusted the God who gives life to the dead, did not waver despite h...

Romans 4:1-12

Romans 4:1-12

Abraham was not justified by works but believed God's promise and was counted righteous by grace. David celebrates the same blessing of forgiven and c...