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Text -- Romans 1:1-14 (NET)
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Salutation
1:1 From Paul , a slave of Christ Jesus , called to be an apostle , set apart for the gospel of God .
1:2 This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures ,
1:3 concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh ,
1:4 who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead , Jesus Christ our Lord .
1:5 Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name .
1:6 You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ .
1:7 To all those loved by God in Rome , called to be saints : Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ !
Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome
1:8 First of all , I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you , because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world .
1:9 For God , whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son , is my witness that I continually remember remember you
1:10 and I always ask in my prayers , if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God .
1:11 For I long to see you , so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you ,
1:12 that is , that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith , both yours and mine .
1:13 I do not want you to be unaware , brothers and sisters , that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now ), so that I may have some fruit even among you , just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles .
1:14 I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians , both to the wise and to the foolish .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Romans, Epistle to the |
Fall of man |
Inclusiveness |
Zeal |
Jesus, The Christ |
PAPYRUS |
TEXT AND MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT |
HEBREWS, EPISTLE TO THE |
ATHEISM |
Gentiles |
SON OF GOD, THE |
God |
Salvation |
Church |
Rome |
Barbarian |
SPIRIT |
SPIRITUAL GIFTS |
PAULINE THEOLOGY |
PERSON OF CHRIST, 1-3 |
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NET Notes -> Rom 1:1; Rom 1:1; Rom 1:1; Rom 1:1; Rom 1:1; Rom 1:1; Rom 1:2; Rom 1:3; Rom 1:3; Rom 1:4; Rom 1:4; Rom 1:4; Rom 1:5; Rom 1:5; Rom 1:5; Rom 1:5; Rom 1:6; Rom 1:6; Rom 1:7; Rom 1:7; Rom 1:7; Rom 1:8; Rom 1:9; Rom 1:9; Rom 1:10; Rom 1:10; Rom 1:11; Rom 1:12; Rom 1:13; Rom 1:13; Rom 1:13; Rom 1:14
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NET Notes: Rom 1:2 Grk “the gospel of God, which he promised.” Because of the length and complexity of this sentence in Greek, it was divided into shorter En...
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NET Notes: Rom 1:3 Grk “according to the flesh,” indicating Jesus’ earthly life, a reference to its weakness. This phrase implies that Jesus was more t...
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NET Notes: Rom 1:4 Or “by his resurrection.” Most interpreters see this as a reference to Jesus’ own resurrection, although some take it to refer to th...
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NET Notes: Rom 1:5 The phrase ὑπακοὴν πίστεως has been variously understood as (1) an objective g...
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NET Notes: Rom 1:8 Grk “First.” Paul never mentions a second point, so J. B. Phillips translated “I must begin by telling you….”
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NET Notes: Rom 1:11 Paul does not mean here that he is going to bestow upon the Roman believers what is commonly known as a “spiritual gift,” that is, a speci...
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NET Notes: Rom 1:12 Grk “that is, to be comforted together with you through the faith in one another.”
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NET Notes: Rom 1:13 Grk “in order that I might have some fruit also among you just as also among the rest of the Gentiles.”
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