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God had promised the gospel before by his prophets in the holy Scriptures.
According to the flesh, God’s Son was born out of the descendants of David.
Jesus Christ was declared to be the Son of God by the resurrection from the dead.
Paul received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations.
Paul thanks God because their faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
Paul desires to see them in order to give them some spiritual gift in order to strengthen them.
Paul had been unable to visit because he was hindered until now.
Paul says the gospel is the power of God for salvation for every one who believes.
Paul quotes the scripture, “The righteous will live by faith.”
The ungodly and unrighteous hold back the truth even though that which is known about God is visible to them.
The unseen things about God are clearly visible through the created things.
God’s everlasting power and divine nature are clearly visible.
Those who do not glorify God nor give him thanks become foolish in their thoughts and their hearts are darkened.
God gives them over to the lusts of their hearts for uncleanness, for their bodies to be dishonored among themselves.
The women burn in their lust for one another, and the men burn in their lust for one another.
God gives them up to a disapproved mind, to do those things that are not proper.
Those who have a depraved mind are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and evil intentions.
Those with a depraved mind understand that those who practice such things are worthy of death.
They do unrighteous things anyway, and approve of those who practice them.
Some people are without excuse in their judging because what they judge in another they practice themselves.
God judges according to truth when he judges those who practice unrighteousness.
God’s patience, kindness, and goodness are meant to lead a person to repentance.
Those with hard, unrepentant hearts are storing up for themselves wrath on the day of God’s righteous judgment.
Those who have done consistent, good actions will receive eternal life.
Those who obey unrighteousness receive wrath and anger.
God shows no partiality, because those who sin, either Jew or Greek, will perish.
The doers of the law are justified before God.
Gentiles show that they are a law to themselves when, by nature, they do the things of the Law.
Paul challenges them that if they teach others the law, they should also teach themselves.
Paul mentions the sins of stealing, adultery, and the robbery of temples.
God’s name is being dishonored because the Jewish teachers of the law are transgressing the law.
Paul says that a Jewish person’s circumcision can become uncircumcision if that person is a violator of the law.
Paul says that a Gentile person’s uncircumcision can be considered circumcision if that person keeps the requirements of the law.
Paul says that a true Jew is a Jew inwardly, with a circumcision of the heart.
A true Jew receives praise from God.
First of all among the advantages of the Jew is that they were entrusted with revelation from God.
Even though every man is a liar, God is found to be true.
Because God is righteous, he is able to judge the world.
Judgment comes on those who say, “Let us do evil, that good may come.”
It is written that there is none righteous, not one.
According to what is written, none understands and none seeks out God.
No flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
The full awareness of sin comes through the law.
By the witnesses of the Law and the Prophets has a righteousness without the law now been made known.
The righteousness without the law is the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe.
A person is justified before God freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
God provided Christ Jesus as a propitiation through faith in his blood.
God showed that he is the one who justifies anyone because of faith in Jesus.
A person is justified by faith totally apart from the works of the law.
God justifies both by faith.
We uphold the law through faith.
Abraham would have had reason to boast if he had been justified by works.
The scripture says that Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
God justifies the people who trust in him.
According to David, blessed is the man whose sins are forgiven and whose sins are not counted by the Lord.
Abraham’s faith was counted as righteousness before he was circumcised.
Abraham is the father of all who believe, both the physically uncircumcised and the circumcised.
It was promised to Abraham and his descendants that they would be heirs of the world.
If the promise had come through the law, then faith would be empty and the promise not true.
The promise is given by faith so that it is by grace, and so that it is sure.
Paul says that God gives life to the dead and calls things that do not exist into existence.
Abraham confidently trusted God and did not hesitate in unbelief.
When God made the promise to Abraham, Abraham was about a hundred years old and Sarah’s womb was dead.
Abraham confidently trusted God and did not hesitate in unbelief.
The account of Abraham was written for his benefit and also for our benefit.
We believe God has raised Jesus from the dead, who was delivered up for our sins and raised for our justification.
Because they are justified by faith, believers have peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Suffering produces endurance, character, and hope.
God demonstrates his love toward us, because while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Being justified by Christ’s blood, believers are saved from the wrath of God.
Unbelievers are enemies of God before they are reconciled to God through Jesus.
Because of the sin of one man, sin entered into the world, death entered through sin, and death spread to all people.
Adam was the one man through whom sin entered the world.
By Adam’s sin many died, but the grace of God and his free gift through Christ abounds to many.
The judgment of condemnation resulted from Adam’s sin, but justification resulted from God’s free gift.
Death ruled from Adam’s sin, and those who receive God’s gift rule through the life of Jesus Christ.
Many were made sinners through Adam’s disobedience, and many will be made righteous through the obedience of Christ.
The law came alongside in order that the trespass might increase.
God’s grace abounded more than the trespass.
People baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into Christ’s death.
Believers should walk in newness of life.
Believers are united to Christ in his death and resurrection.
Our old man was crucified with Christ so that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
We know that death no longer rules over Christ because Christ has been raised from the dead.
Christ died to sin once for all.
A believer should think of himself as dead to sin.
A believer lives his life for God.
A believer should present the members of his body to God as tools of righteousness.
A believer lives under grace, which allows him to rule over sin.
The end result of a person who makes himself a servant of God is righteousness.
Slaves of God have their fruit for sanctification.
The wages of sin is death.
The free gift of God is eternal life.
The law controls a person for as long as he lives.
A married woman is bound by the law of marriage until her husband dies.
Once she is free from the law of marriage, a woman may marry another man.
Believers are made dead to the law through the body of Christ.
Having been made dead to the law, believers are able to be joined to Christ.
The law makes sin known.
No, the law is not sin.
Sin, through the commandment of the law, brings about every lust in a person.
The law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
Paul says that sin, through the law, brings about death in him.
When Paul does that which he does not want, then he agrees with the law that the law is good.
Sin that lives in Paul causes him to do the things that he does not wish to do.
No good thing lives in Paul’s flesh.
Paul finds the principle in him that he wants to do what is good, but evil is actually present in him.
Paul’s inner man rejoices in the law of God.
In the members of his body, Paul finds the principle of sin taking him captive.
Paul gives thanks to God for his deliverance through Jesus Christ.
The principle of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made Paul free from the law of sin and death.
The law was unable because it was weak through the flesh.
Those who walk according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
The flesh is hostile toward God and is not able to be subject to the law.
People who do not belong to God lack the Spirit of Christ living in them.
God gives life to the believer’s mortal body through his Spirit, who lives in the believer.
The sons of God are led by the Spirit of God.
A believer is included into God’s family by adoption.
As children of God, believers are also heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.
The sufferings of the present time are to be endured so that believers may be glorified with Christ when the sons of God are revealed.
At the present time, the creation is under the slavery of decay.
The creation will be delivered into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Believers are to wait with confidence and patience for the redemption of the body.
The Spirit himself intercedes in behalf of the saints according to the will of God.
God works all things together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose.
God has predestined those whom he foreknew to be conformed to the image of his Son.
Those he predestined, God also called, justified, and glorified.
Believers know that God will freely give them all things because God gave up his own Son on behalf of all believers.
Christ Jesus is interceding on behalf of the saints at the right hand of God.
Believers are more than conquerors through the one who loved them.
Paul is convinced that no created thing can separate the believer from the love of God.
Paul would be willing to be cursed by God for the sake of his brothers.
The Israelites have adoption, the glory, the covenants, the law, the worship of God, and the promises.
Paul says that not everyone in Israel truly belongs to Israel, and not all of Abraham’s descendants are truly his children.
The children of the flesh are not counted as the children of God.
The children of the promise are counted as the children of God.
The purpose of God according to choice was the cause behind the statement given to Rebecca.
The cause behind God’s gifts of mercy and compassion is God’s choice.
The cause behind God’s gifts of mercy and compassion is not the will or actions of the person receiving the gifts.
Paul replies, “Who are you who answers against God?”
God endured with much patience those prepared for destruction.
God made known to them the riches of his glory.
God has called from both Jews and Gentiles those on whom he is having mercy.
From all the children of Israel, a remnant will be saved.
The Gentiles attained it through the righteousness by faith.
Israel did not arrive at it because they pursued it by works, and not by faith.
The Israelites stumbled over the stone of stumbling and the rock of offense.
Those who do not stumble, but believe, will not be ashamed.
Paul’s desire is for the Israelites’ salvation.
The Israelites are seeking to establish their own righteousness.
The Israelites do not know of God’s righteousness.
Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness for everyone who believes.
The word of faith is near, in the mouth and in the heart.
Paul says a person must acknowledge with the mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in the heart that God raised him from the dead.
Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.
Paul says that first a preacher is sent and the good news is heard and believed so that a person can call on the name of the Lord.
The word of Christ is heard, which brings faith.
Yes, Israel heard the gospel.
God said he would provoke Israel to jealousy by appearing a nation that had not known him.
When God reached out to Israel, he found a disobedient and resistant people.
May it never be!
Paul says that there is a remnant remaining that has been preserved because of the choice of grace.
The chosen among the Israelites obtained salvation, and the rest were hardened.
The spirit of dullness made their eyes unable to see and their ears unable to hear.
Salvation has come to the Gentiles.
The salvation of the Gentiles will provoke the Israelites to jealousy.
The root is Israel, and the wild branches are the Gentiles.
Paul says the wild branches must avoid the attitude of boasting over the natural branches that were broken off.
Paul warns the wild branches that if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare the wild branches if they fall into unbelief.
God can graft back into the olive tree natural branches that do not continue in their unbelief.
The partial hardening of Israel will last until the completion of the Gentiles comes in.
The Israelites continue to be loved by God because of the ancestors and because the call of God is unchangeable.
Both Jew and Gentile have been shown to be disobedient.
God has shown mercy to the disobedient, both Jew and Gentile.
No person can search God’s judgments and give him advice.
All things are from God, through God, and to God.
A believer’s spiritual service is to present himself a living sacrifice to God.
A transformed mind enables a believer to know what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.
A believer should not think of himself more highly than he ought to think.
The many believers are one body in Christ, and individually members of each other.
Each believer should exercise his gifts according to the proportion of his faith.
Believers should be affectionate to one another and respect one another.
Believers should share in the needs of the saints.
Believers should bless, and not curse, those who persecute them.
Believers should accept lowly people.
As much as is possible, believers should seek peace with all people.
Believers should not avenge themselves, because vengeance belongs to the Lord.
Believers should overcome evil with good.
Earthly authorities are appointed by God and get their authority from God.
Those who oppose the earthly authority will receive judgment upon themselves.
Paul tells believers to do what is good so that they can be unafraid of the ruling authority.
God has given rulers the authority to carry the sword and to punish the one who does evil.
God has given rulers the authority to require payment of taxes.
Paul says that believers should owe love to others.
A believer fulfills the law by loving his neighbor.
Paul lists the commandments to not commit adultery, not kill, not steal, and not covet as part of the law.
A believer fulfills the law by loving his neighbor.
Paul says believers should put aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
Believers are not to walk in wild celebrations, drunkenness, sexual immorality, uncontrolled lust, strife, or jealousy.
The believer should make no provision for the lusts of the flesh.
A person who is stronger in faith eats anything, but a person who is weaker in faith eats only vegetables.
Believers who differ on what they eat should not despise or judge each other.
God has received both the one who eats anything and the one who eats only vegetables.
Paul mentions as an issue of personal conviction whether one day is valued over another or all days are valued equally.
Believers live and die for the Lord.
All believers will ultimately stand before the judgment seat of God.
A brother should not place a stumbling block or a snare for another brother on issues of personal conviction.
Paul is persuaded that no foods are unclean.
The kingdom of God is about righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Paul says it is good if the brother does not eat meat or drink wine in the presence of the other brother.
Whatever actions are not taken from faith are sin.
Believers with strong faith should bear the weaknesses of those with weak faith, in order to build them up.
Christ did not live to please himself, but served others.
The Scriptures written previously were written for our instruction.
Paul desires that the believers be of the same mind with each other.
Christ lived to served others.
The scriptures say the Gentiles will rejoice and praise the Lord.
The believers will be filled with joy and peace, and will abound in hope.
Paul’s mission is to be a servant of Christ Jesus sent to the Gentiles.
Christ has worked through Paul by word and action, by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Paul desires to proclaim the gospel where Christ is not known by name.
Paul plans to travel to Spain, which will also allow him to come to Rome.
Paul is now going to Jerusalem to serve the believers there.
The Gentiles believers owe the Jewish believers material things because the Gentile believers have shared in the spiritual things of the Jewish believers.
Paul wishes to be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea.
Sister Phoebe has become a helper of Paul and of many others.
Prisca and Aquila have risked their lives for Paul in the past.
The believers in Rome are meeting in the house of Prisca and Aquila.
Andronicus and Junias have been fellow prisoners with Paul in the past.
The believers greet one another with a holy kiss.
Paul tells the believers to turn away from those causing divisions and stumbling.
Some are going beyond the teaching they have learned, deceiving the hearts of the innocent.
Paul wants the believers to be wise to that which is good, and innocent to that which is evil.
The God of peace will soon be crushing Satan under the believers’ feet.
Tertius actually wrote down this epistle.
Erastus is the treasurer of the city.
Paul is now preaching the revelation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Paul is preaching for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles.