Romans 6:1–4 slams the door on the lie that grace excuses sin. Paul says— “By no means!” Thus, because of our union with Christ, we have been spiritually baptized (completely transformed) into His dea...  Read More

In Romans 5:12–21, Paul traces humanity’s story through two Adams. Through the first Adam’s, sin entered into the world through his defiance of God’s command causing death to spread to all—contaminati...  Read More

Paul’s “how much more” argument moves from what God has already done to what He will certainly do. If, while we were God’s enemies, we were justified by Christ’s blood and reconciled through His death...  Read More

At just the right time, after centuries of divine foreshadowing—the tabernacle sacrifices, Isaac’s near-sacrifice with a substitute, the Passover lamb, and the promises to David—God unveiled His decis...  Read More

Since we are all sinners and incapable of saving ourselves, God did for us—what we could not do for ourselves... He provided a single, sufficient sacrifice in Jesus to make it possible for our sins to...  Read More

Paul shows us that God’s saving promise rests in faith alone in the grace initiative of God—and therefore guaranteed to all who share Abraham’s faith (v.16). Abraham believed the God who “gives life t...  Read More

In Romans 4, Paul continues the argument he began in Romans 3: that no one can earn righteousness through the Law or through moral effort. To prove his point, Paul reaches back to the story of Abraham...  Read More

Paul’s words in this passage are a turning point in his letter to the Romans. For two chapters he has been building the case that everyone—Jew and Gentile alike—has fallen short of God’s perfect stand...  Read More

After proving in Romans 1:16-3:20 that no one is righteous or deserving of God’s forgiveness—and that the Law can save no one but only expose one’s sin, Paul announced the good news that the righteous...  Read More

Paul brings his argument to a sobering verdict—There is no one righteous…not even one. Both Jews and Gentiles alike are subject to the power, pain, and penalty of sin equally – and our minds, motives,...  Read More

After showing in chapters 1–2 that both Gentiles and Jews stand guilty before a holy God, Paul anticipates the pushback: “So what advantage is there to being a Jew?” He answers—MUCH—because they were ...  Read More

In this passage, Paul turns to the Jewish believers who were putting their confidence in their ability to keep the Law and in their circumcision as proof of their faith superiority. He says bluntly th...  Read More