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Text -- Romans 1:1-30 (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 .
1:15 Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome .
The Power of the Gospel
1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel , for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes , to the Jew first and also to the Greek .
1:17 For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith , just as it is written , “The righteous by faith will live .”
The Condemnation of the Unrighteous
1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness ,
1:19 because what can be known about God is plain to them , because God has made it plain to them .
1:20 For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature– have been clearly seen , because they are understood through what has been made . So people are without excuse .
1:21 For although they knew God , they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks , but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened .
1:22 Although they claimed to be wise , they became fools
1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles .
1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity , to dishonor their bodies among themselves .
1:25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator , who is blessed forever ! Amen .
1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions . For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones ,
1:27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another . Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error .
1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God , God gave them over to a depraved mind , to do what should not be done .
1:29 They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness , wickedness , covetousness , malice . They are rife with envy , murder , strife , deceit , hostility . They are gossips ,
1:30 slanderers , haters of God , insolent , arrogant , boastful , contrivers of all sorts of evil , disobedient to parents ,
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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 |
Atheism |
Rome |
Gentiles |
Justification |
GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE |
Wicked |
Idolatry |
God |
Inclusiveness |
Zeal |
WORSHIP |
Lasciviousness |
Jesus, The Christ |
Blindness |
Gospel |
PAPYRUS |
EVIL |
TEXT AND MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT |
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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; Rom 1:15; Rom 1:15; Rom 1:16; Rom 1:17; Rom 1:17; Rom 1:17; Rom 1:17; Rom 1:18; Rom 1:18; Rom 1:18; Rom 1:19; Rom 1:20; Rom 1:21; Rom 1:22; Rom 1:23; Rom 1:23; Rom 1:24; Rom 1:24; Rom 1:24; Rom 1:25; Rom 1:25; Rom 1:25; Rom 1:26; Rom 1:27; Rom 1:27; Rom 1:27; Rom 1:28; Rom 1:28; Rom 1:29; Rom 1:29
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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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NET Notes: Rom 1:20 Grk “they”; the referent (people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Rom 1:26 Grk “for their females exchanged the natural function for that which is contrary to nature.” The term χρῆσις...
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NET Notes: Rom 1:27 Grk “another, men committing…and receiving,” continuing the description of their deeds. Because of the length and complexity of the ...
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