Romans

Below are links to all the posts of chapter summaries and brief thoughts on each chapter of Romans: (1) Romans 1 – Apostle, Thanksgiving, Not Ashamed of the Gospel, Sin (2) Romans 2 – God’s Judgment, The Law (3) Romans 3 – God Upholds His Righteousness, No One Is Righteous, Righteousness of God Through Faith (4) Romans 4 – Abraham Justified by Faith, Promise to Abraham Realized Through Faith (5) Romans 5 – Peace with God Through Faith, Death in…

Paul commends Phoebe – deacon of the church at Cenchreae – and encourages to welcome her in the Lord and help her in whatever she needs. Greet…  Prisca and Aquila – fellow workers in Christ who risked their lives for Paul’s and all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks for them. The church in their house. Epaenetus – the 1st convert to Christ in Asia. Mary – who worked hard for them. Andronicus and Junia – fellow prisoners who were Christians before Paul. Ampliatus – beloved. Urbanus – fellow worker in Christ.…

The strong have an obligation to bear with the failing of the weak. Don’t please yourself. Please your neighbor for his good, and build him up. Christ did not please himself. What was written in the past was for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of Scripture we might have hope. May the God of endurance and encouragement help us live in harmony with one another, that together we might glorify the God and Father of our…

Welcome the weak in faith but don’t quarrel over opinions. The one who eats shouldn’t despise the one who abstains, and the one who abstains shouldn’t pass judgment on the one who eats. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It’s before his own master that he stands or falls. One person esteems one day as better than another while another esteems all days alike. Be fully convinced in your mind. The one who observes days,…

Be subject to governing authorities. God instituted government. If you resist government you resist what God appointed. Rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Our authorities are God’s servant for our good. Government carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Be subject not only to avoid God’s wrath but for the sake of conscience. This is why we pay taxes. Pay to all those what is owed them – taxes, revenue, respect, and honor. Owe no…

By the mercies of God present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, as your spiritual worship. Don’t be conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good acceptable and perfect. Don’t think more highly of yourself than you ought, but soberly according to the measure of faith God has assigned. Members don’t all have the same function,…

God has not rejected His people. Paul is an Israelite – descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Elijah appealed to God against Israel, but God’s reply was, “I have kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” At the present time there was a remnant, chosen by grace. If by grace it’s no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer…

It was Paul’s heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel that they may be saved. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. Moses writes about righteousness that is based on the law, the person who does the commandments shall live by them. The righteousness based on faith says that the word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart; because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and…

Paul is speaking truth in Christ. He had sorrow in his heart. He wished he was damned and cut off for the sake of his fellow Jews. To them belong adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, the promises, the patriarchs, and from their race in the flesh came Jesus Christ who is God over all. The Word of God hasn’t failed. Not all who descended from Israel belong to Israel, not all are children…

There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. The law of the Spirit of life has set us free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. God has done what the law couldn’t do. He sent his Son, and in Him condemned sin in the flesh, so that the righteous requirement of the law would be fulfilled in us who walk not in our flesh but the Spirit – setting our minds on things…