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All of you there in Rome [i.e., the church there] are also among such obedient believers. You are called Jesus Christ's [people], loved by God and called to be His holy people. May you have unearned favor and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithBenedictionsBelovedHoliness, Believers' Growth InSaintsNames And Titles For The ChristianChurch, Examples OfAll Believers Are SaintsGod's Love In ChristGrace Be To YouPeace And ComfortGod's Love For UsLoving EveryoneMissing SomeoneGods LoveBeing LovedBeing Positivechristianityfatherhoodreality

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

Verse ConceptsHarvestPlansSowing And ReapingFruitful LabourHindering God's Work

For I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to them which are no Greeks, unto the learned and also unto the unlearned.

Verse ConceptsBarbariansGreeksNecessityPreaching Gospel To ForeignersWise Man Or FoolDebtculture

This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. For not only did the women among them exchange the natural use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, but the men also,

Verse ConceptsdesiresSodomySexual PerversionEvil PassionsGod Handing OverWomen Doing WrongExchanging Good For BadAffectionsexLove And RelationshipsWomen's RolesPassionChange And GrowthSame Sex Marriage

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Verse ConceptsBad PeopleIndecencyRetributionPunishment, According To DeedsSodomyRelationship Of Men And WomenErrorgayssexPassionRelationships And DatingBeing GayMan And WomanFalling Away From God

if you are also confident that you yourself are a guide for the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Verse ConceptsLiving In The LightLightBelieving In Yourself

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Verse ConceptsLyingWhat Sin?

This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus' faithfulness.

Verse ConceptsAssurance, nature ofGod, Justice OfImputed RighteousnessRighteous By Faith

yes, also of nations; since one is God who shall declare righteous the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, spiritualMonotheismJustification Under The GospelGod Is OneNecessity Of CircumcisionRighteous By FaithThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile

Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

Verse ConceptsCouncil of JerusalemNecessity Of CircumcisionRighteous By Faith

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, spiritualPraiseSealsAbraham, God's Covenant WithAbraham, New Testament ReferencesReckoningRighteous By FaithRighteousness imputed

And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Had Faithfootprints

for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfEffect Of The LawGod Has AngerNo SinWithout The LawLegaldisobediencelawwrath

And, without becoming weak in his faith, he attentively considered his own body, already deadened - he being a hundred years old, the deadening also of Sarah's womb;

Verse ConceptsBodyWeakness, SpiritualThe Age At FatherhoodWombLimitations Of The BodyGrace Verse LawWeaknesschildbearing

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them also that sinned not, with like transgression as did Adam: which is the similitude of him that is to come.

Verse ConceptsAdam and Jesus ChristForeshadowingTypes Of ChristChrist, Types OfAntitypesSin Producing DeathNot Like ThingsSin Produces DeathAdam and eve disobey god

for if by one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ;??18 therefore, as through the fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also through the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to justification of life;

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfAbundance, SpiritualGenerosity, God'sGrace, And Christian LifeJustification, Results OfRighteousness, As FaithVictory, Over Spiritual ForcesImputed RighteousnessGrowth In GraceLife Through ChristSin Producing DeathOnly One PersonAuthority Of DisciplesSin Produces DeathThe Grace Of GodRighteousnessGod's GraceTragedy

in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Verse Conceptseternal life, gift ofSin, Causes OfSin, Universality OfGrace, Description OfComplicityJustified By GraceExercise

For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.

Verse ConceptsSin Producing DeathDeceiving OneselfRight Time For The DevilEffect Of The LawSin Produces DeathDeception

For nature was subjected to imperfection, not by its own will, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject??21 yet not without the hope that some day nature itself also will be freed from the thralldom of decay, into the freedom which belongs to the glory of the children of God.

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, Effects Of FallDecayNot My Will But God'sUseless EndeavourThe Universe AffectedliberationMoral Decay

And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --

Verse ConceptsElection, Results InPredestined PeopleGloryRiches Of GraceGod Will Show MercyMercy And Grace

As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

Verse ConceptsBelovedReinstatementUnlovingGod's Call

Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

Verse ConceptsRemnantSmall RemnantsGod Saves The NeedyMany In Israel

As also Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and should have resembled Gomorrah.

Verse ConceptsRemnantSmall RemnantsPredicting The FutureSimilar Items

He also says of Israel, All the day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.

Verse ConceptsObstinacy Against GodHand Of GodGod's HandGod's Hands Stretched Outdisobediencerebellion

in these words, "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I alone am left, and they seek my life also."

Verse ConceptsMartyrdom, Examples OfDestruction Of The TempleKilling ProphetsProphets KilledSole SurvivorsOnly One PersonAttempting To Kill Me

Now if the Jews sinning meant blessings for [the rest of] the world, and their [spiritual] defection meant blessings for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness [also produce blessings]! [Note: "Fullness" here may mean either a large or the complete number of Jews who will be saved, or become completely obedient to God].

Verse ConceptsGrowth Of The ChurchFullness Of The KingdomIsrael HardenedDefeat Of God's People

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Figurative UsesNot Sparing

For as indeed ye also once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of these;

Verse ConceptsReceiving God's Mercydisobedience

He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord. He who eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God.

Verse ConceptsAbstinence as a disciplineConsciences, In Decision MakingThankfulnessThanksgivingThanksgiving Before MealsThanking God For FoodDaysTable GraceThankfulness To OthersGiving ThanksEating MeatThanksThanksgiving Offered To God

But why do you judge your brother? Or also, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

Verse ConceptsJudgment SeatStandingJesus Christ, JudgeNot JudgingDo Not DespiseJudgement SeatBelittlingJudging Others Actionscriticism

and for the Gentiles to glorify God for His mercy [to them, since God had no covenant with them]. As it is written and forever remains written,

Therefore I praise You among the Gentiles,
And sing praises to Your name.”

Verse ConceptsThe Gentiles ConversionI Will Sing PraisesI Will Praise You With MusicPraise God For His Benefits