![]() ( AF)ġ6 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, ( AG) because it is the power of God ( AH) that brings salvation to everyone who believes: ( AI) first to the Jew, ( AJ) then to the Gentile. 15 That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome. 13 I do not want you to be unaware, ( AB) brothers and sisters, ( AC) that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) ( AD) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.ġ4 I am obligated ( AE) both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. ( Y)ġ1 I long to see you ( Z) so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift ( AA) to make you strong- 12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith. ( T) 9 God, whom I serve ( U) in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness ( V) how constantly I remember you 10 in my prayers at all times ( W) and I pray that now at last by God’s will ( X) the way may be opened for me to come to you. ( R) Paul’s Longing to Visit RomeĨ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, ( S) because your faith is being reported all over the world. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. ( O)ħ To all in Rome who are loved by God ( P) and called to be his holy people: ( Q) 6 And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ. ( K) 5 Through him we received grace ( L) and apostleship to call all the Gentiles ( M) to the obedience that comes from faith ( N) for his name’s sake. He holds degrees from Swarthmore College (B.A) and Yale University (B.D, Ph.D.), and is an ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches, USA.1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle ( A) and set apart ( B) for the gospel of God ( C)- 2 the gospel he promised beforehand ( D) through his prophets ( E) in the Holy Scriptures ( F) 3 regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life ( G) was a descendant of David, ( H) 4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power ( I) by his resurrection from the dead: ( J) Jesus Christ our Lord. He is also the co-editor of the Westminster Bible Companion and Feasting on the Word commentary series. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor Emeritus of Christian Communication at Yale Divinity School, is the author of several books including Fact and Faith, The Shape of Scriptural Authority, Between the Bible and the Church, and What’s Good About This News? Preaching from the Gospels and Galatians. He holds degrees from Boston College (B.A), Cambridge University (M.A.), and Harvard University (Ph.D.).ĭavid Bartlett, J. His publications include Essays on John and Hebrews, Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, First-Century Cynicism in the Epistles of Heraclitus, The Interpretation of Biblical History in the Antiquitates Judaicae of Flavius Josephus, Nag Hammadi Codex I: The Jung Codex, and The Acts of Thomas, as well as numerous book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. Harold Attridge, Sterling Professor of Divinity at Yale Divinity School, has made scholarly contributions to New Testament exegesis and to the study of Hellenistic Judaism and the history of the early Church. ![]() We hope that you, too, will come out of this study “transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). As you begin your journey through this powerful, historic letter, we offer a friendly word of warning: those who have gone before you have rarely emerged from their own journeys through Romans unchanged. It has shaped and formed the thought of some of the Christian church’s most significant figures including Saint Augustine, Martin Luther, John Wesley, and Karl Barth. ![]() Paul’s letter to the Romans has been enormously influential in the development of Christian faith, theological reflection, and practice.
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