Romans: Concise YAML Overview
romans:
title: "The Epistle of Paul to the Romans"
theme: "The righteousness of God revealed through faith"
key_verse: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, 'The righteous shall live by faith.'"
sections:
introduction:
greeting: "Paul's introduction and credentials"
thanksgiving: "Paul's desire to visit Rome"
theme_statement: "The gospel reveals God's righteousness through faith"
universal_need_for_salvation:
gentile_guilt: "Condemnation of Gentile unrighteousness"
jewish_guilt: "God's impartial judgment - Jews equally culpable"
universal_guilt: "All have sinned and fall short of God's glory"
justification_by_faith:
righteousness_through_faith: "Justification apart from the law"
abraham_as_example: "Abraham justified by faith, not works"
results_of_justification: "Peace with God, hope, love, reconciliation"
adam_and_christ: "Two representatives: Death in Adam, life in Christ"
sanctification:
freedom_from_sin: "Dead to sin, alive in Christ"
freedom_from_law: "Released from law, joined to Christ"
life_in_the_spirit: "No condemnation, led by the Spirit"
future_glory: "Creation's redemption, believer's adoption, eternal security"
israel_in_gods_plan:
israels_past: "God's sovereign election of Israel"
israels_present: "Israel's rejection of Christ and the gospel"
israels_future: "A remnant saved, future restoration promised"
christian_living:
transformed_life: "Living sacrifices, spiritual gifts, genuine love"
submission_to_authorities: "Respect for government, love as fulfillment of law"
dealing_with_differences: "Strong and weak believers, avoiding judgment"
conclusion:
pauls_ministry: "Ministry plans and travel intentions"
personal_greetings: "Commendations and greetings to believers in Rome"
final_instructions: "Warnings, greetings from companions, benediction"
key_theological_concepts:
righteousness: "God's righteous character and the righteous status He gives believers"
justification: "Being declared righteous by God through faith in Christ"
sanctification: "Growth in holiness through the power of the Holy Spirit"
faith: "Trust in God and His promises as the means of salvation"
grace: "God's unmerited favor toward sinners"
law: "God's revealed will, unable to save but shows need for Christ"
election: "God's sovereign choice in salvation"
israel: "God's covenant people with a past, present, and future role"
Romans: Detailed YAML Structure
romans:
meta:
title: "The Epistle of Paul to the Romans"
theme: "The righteousness of God revealed through faith"
key_verse: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, 'The righteous shall live by faith.'"
recipients: "Believers in Rome, both Jewish and Gentile Christians"
purpose: "To explain the gospel systematically, address tensions between Jewish and Gentile believers, and prepare for Paul's visit"
section_1:
title: "Introduction and Theme"
subsections:
greeting:
content: "Paul's introduction and apostolic credentials"
key_elements:
- "Paul identifies himself as a servant of Christ"
- "Gospel was promised through prophets"
- "Jesus' dual nature: human (David's descendant) and divine (Son of God)"
- "Recipients are loved by God and called to be saints"
key_verse: "Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God"
thanksgiving_and_prayer:
content: "Paul's desire to visit Rome and minister there"
key_elements:
- "Thanks for their faith known throughout the world"
- "Paul's persistent prayers for the Romans"
- "His desire to visit and impart spiritual gifts"
- "Paul's sense of obligation to preach to all people"
key_verse: "I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome"
theme_statement:
content: "The gospel reveals God's righteousness through faith"
key_elements:
- "Not ashamed of the gospel"
- "Gospel is God's power for salvation"
- "Salvation is for everyone who believes"
- "God's righteousness revealed through faith"
key_verse: "For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith"
section_2:
title: "The Universal Need for Salvation"
subsections:
gentile_guilt:
content: "God's wrath against unrighteousness"
key_elements:
- "God's wrath revealed against ungodliness"
- "Natural revelation ignored"
- "Futile thinking and idolatry"
- "God gave them over to depravity"
- "List of vices resulting from rejection of God"
key_verse: "For what can be known about God is plain to them... So they are without excuse"
jewish_guilt:
content: "God's judgment is impartial"
key_elements:
- "Self-righteous judgment condemned"
- "God judges according to truth"
- "Jews and Gentiles judged by the same standard"
- "Possession of the law doesn't guarantee righteousness"
- "True circumcision is of the heart"
key_verse: "For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something external and physical. Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart"
universal_guilt:
content: "All humans are under sin's power"
key_elements:
- "Jewish advantages acknowledged"
- "God remains faithful despite human unfaithfulness"
- "Scripture confirms universal sinfulness"
- "The law brings knowledge of sin, not salvation"
key_verse: "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"
section_3:
title: "Justification by Faith"
subsections:
righteousness_through_faith:
content: "God's righteousness revealed apart from law"
key_elements:
- "Righteousness through faith in Christ"
- "Justification as a gift by grace"
- "Christ as the propitiation for sins"
- "Law upheld, not abolished"
key_verse: "God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith"
abraham_as_example:
content: "Abraham justified by faith before circumcision"
key_elements:
- "Abraham justified by faith, not works"
- "David confirms justification apart from works"
- "Abraham justified before circumcision"
- "Promise comes through faith"
- "Abraham's faith as our example"
key_verse: "It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise... but through the righteousness that comes by faith"
results_of_justification:
content: "Benefits of being justified by faith"
key_elements:
- "Peace with God"
- "Access to grace"
- "Rejoicing in hope"
- "God's love demonstrated in Christ's death"
- "Reconciliation with God"
key_verse: "We rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation"
adam_and_christ:
content: "Adam and Christ compared as representative heads"
key_elements:
- "Sin entered through one man (Adam)"
- "Death spread to all because all sinned"
- "Contrast between Adam's disobedience and Christ's obedience"
- "Law increased trespass, grace abounded more"
- "Reign of grace through righteousness"
key_verse: "For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous"
section_4:
title: "Sanctification: Freedom from Sin's Dominion"
subsections:
freedom_from_sin:
content: "Believers died to sin and live in Christ"
key_elements:
- "Dead to sin through union with Christ"
- "Baptism symbolizes death, burial, and resurrection with Christ"
- "Consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God"
- "Present yourselves to God as instruments of righteousness"
- "Freed from sin to become slaves of righteousness"
key_verse: "For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace"
freedom_from_law:
content: "Released from law, joined to Christ"
key_elements:
- "Death releases from the law (marriage analogy)"
- "Purpose of the law in revealing sin"
- "Internal struggle between desire to do good and sin's power"
- "The law is spiritual but humans are carnal"
- "Deliverance through Jesus Christ"
key_verse: "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
life_in_the_spirit:
content: "Walking according to the Spirit"
key_elements:
- "No condemnation for those in Christ"
- "Law of the Spirit of life sets free from law of sin and death"
- "Contrast between flesh and Spirit mindsets"
- Spirit:
- "Indwells believers"
- "Gives life"
- "Leads God's children"
- "Testifies we are God's children"
- "Heirs with Christ, sharing in suffering and glory"
key_verse: "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God"
future_glory:
content: "Present suffering and future redemption"
key_elements:
- "Present sufferings insignificant compared to coming glory"
- "Creation awaits redemption"
- "Believers groan, awaiting adoption and redemption"
- "Spirit helps in weakness and intercedes"
- "God's sovereign work in salvation (golden chain)"
- "Nothing can separate from God's love in Christ"
key_verse: "We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose"
section_5:
title: "God's Faithfulness to Israel"
subsections:
israels_past:
content: "God's sovereign election"
key_elements:
- "Paul's sorrow over Israel's unbelief"
- "Israel's privileges enumerated"
- "Not all ethnic Israel is true Israel"
- "God's sovereignty in election (Jacob/Esau, Moses/Pharaoh)"
- "Potter and clay analogy"
- "Remnant preserved by God's mercy"
key_verse: "So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy"
israels_present:
content: "Israel's rejection of Christ and the gospel"
key_elements:
- "Israel pursued righteousness by works, not faith"
- "Christ is the end/goal of the law"
- "Salvation available through confessing Christ"
- "Faith comes through hearing the word"
- "Israel heard but disobeyed"
key_verse: "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved"
israels_future:
content: "God's plan for Israel's restoration"
key_elements:
- "God has not rejected His people"
- "Present remnant chosen by grace"
- "Israel's stumbling brought salvation to Gentiles"
- "Warning to Gentiles against pride"
- "Olive tree analogy (wild and natural branches)"
- "All Israel will be saved"
- "Doxology of God's unsearchable wisdom"
key_verse: "For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable"
section_6:
title: "Christian Living"
subsections:
transformed_life:
content: "Life as a living sacrifice"
key_elements:
- "Bodies as living sacrifices"
- "Renewal of the mind"
- "Spiritual gifts for service"
- "Genuine love"
- "Christian attitudes and behaviors"
- "Overcoming evil with good"
key_verse: "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind"
submission_to_authorities:
content: "Christian relationship to government and neighbors"
key_elements:
- "Submission to governing authorities"
- "Paying taxes and respect"
- "Love as fulfillment of the law"
- "Urgency of salvation"
- "Putting on Christ, making no provision for the flesh"
key_verse: "Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law"
dealing_with_differences:
content: "Unity despite differences in non-essentials"
key_elements:
- "Accepting those weak in faith"
- "Matters of conscience (food, days)"
- "Not judging fellow believers"
- "Not causing others to stumble"
- "Building up others"
- "Christ's example of service"
- "Jews and Gentiles glorifying God together"
key_verse: "May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus"
section_7:
title: "Conclusion and Greetings"
subsections:
pauls_ministry_and_plans:
content: "Paul's past ministry and future plans"
key_elements:
- "Confidence in Roman believers"
- "Paul's ministerial role to Gentiles"
- "Plan to visit Rome on way to Spain"
- "Collection for Jerusalem saints"
- "Request for prayer"
key_verse: "I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you"
personal_greetings:
content: "Commendations and greetings"
key_elements:
- "Commendation of Phoebe"
- "Greetings to various Roman believers"
- "Notable women in ministry"
- "Households and house churches"
- "Holy kiss greeting"
key_verse: "I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae"
final_instructions_and_benediction:
content: "Warnings, final greetings, and doxology"
key_elements:
- "Warning against divisive teachers"
- "Satan to be crushed under their feet"
- "Greetings from Paul's companions"
- "Scribe Tertius's personal greeting"
- "Final doxology"
key_verse: "To the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen."
theological_themes:
sin:
universal: "All have sinned and fall short of God's glory"
consequences: "Death and separation from God"
power: "Sin as an enslaving power"
salvation:
justification: "Declared righteous through faith in Christ"
redemption: "Purchased from sin's slavery"
reconciliation: "Restored relationship with God"
propitiation: "God's wrath satisfied through Christ's sacrifice"
sanctification:
death_to_sin: "Dead to sin, alive to God"
spirit_led: "Life guided by the Holy Spirit"
transformation: "Renewed mind and character"
sovereignty:
election: "God's sovereign choice in salvation"
providence: "All things work together for good"
predestination: "Foreknown, predestined, called, justified, glorified"
eschatology:
future_glory: "Suffering followed by glory"
israels_restoration: "All Israel will be saved"
creation_redemption: "Creation liberated from bondage to decay"
Section 2: Universal Need for Salvation (Romans 1:18-3:20)
universal_need_for_salvation:
gentile_guilt:
wrath_revealed: "God's wrath revealed against ungodliness and unrighteousness"
natural_revelation:
- "What can be known about God is plain"
- "God's invisible attributes perceived in creation"
- "People are without excuse"
rejection_of_god:
- "Did not honor God or give thanks"
- "Futile thinking, foolish hearts darkened"
- "Claiming to be wise, became fools"
- "Exchanged God's glory for idols"
divine_judgment:
- "God gave them up to impurity"
- "Exchanged truth for lie, worshiped creation"
- "God gave them up to dishonorable passions"
- "God gave them up to a debased mind"
catalog_of_vices: "Filled with all manner of unrighteousness"
culpability: "Know God's decree but do these things and approve of others who practice them"
key_verse: "For what can be known about God is plain to them... So they are without excuse"
jewish_guilt:
judgment_of_others:
- "No excuse when judging others"
- "Condemn self by practicing same things"
divine_judgment:
- "God's judgment is according to truth"
- "Based on works, not religious identity"
- "Will render to each according to works"
impartiality:
- "Glory, honor, peace for everyone doing good"
- "No partiality with God"
- "Not hearers but doers of law justified"
law_and_conscience:
- "Gentiles who don't have law do by nature law's requirements"
- "Law written on hearts, conscience bearing witness"
jewish_hypocrisy:
- "Rely on law, boast in God, know his will"
- "Teach others but don't teach self"
- "Dishonor God by breaking the law"
- "God's name blasphemed among Gentiles because of Jews"
true_circumcision:
- "Value of circumcision only if you obey law"
- "If uncircumcised keeps law, counts as circumcision"
- "True Jew is one inwardly"
- "True circumcision is of heart, by Spirit"
key_verse: "For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something external and physical. Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart"
universal_guilt:
jewish_advantage:
- "Much in every way"
- "Entrusted with oracles of God"
gods_faithfulness:
- "Jewish unfaithfulness doesn't nullify God's faithfulness"
- "God must be true though every man a liar"
- "Human unrighteousness demonstrates God's righteousness"
all_under_sin:
- "Jews and Greeks all under sin"
- "None righteous, not even one"
- "None understands or seeks God"
- "All turned aside, become worthless"
scripture_witness: "Series of Old Testament quotes confirming universal sinfulness"
law_purpose:
- "Speaks to those under the law"
- "Every mouth stopped, whole world accountable"
- "No one justified by works of law"
- "Through law comes knowledge of sin"
key_verse: "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"
Section 3: Justification by Faith (Romans 3:21-5:21)
justification_by_faith:
righteousness_through_faith:
revelation_of_righteousness: "Righteousness of God manifested apart from law"
means_of_righteousness: "Through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe"
universal_need: "No distinction - all have sinned and fall short"
justification_described:
- "Justified by grace as a gift"
- "Through redemption in Christ Jesus"
- "God put forward as propitiation by his blood"
purpose_of_justification:
- "To show God's righteousness"
- "Passed over former sins"
- "To prove God is just and justifier"
implications:
- "Boasting excluded"
- "Law of faith, not works"
- "God is God of Jews and Gentiles"
- "Justified by faith apart from works"
- "Law upheld, not overthrown"
key_verse: "For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law"
abraham_as_example:
abraham_justified_by_faith:
- "What did Abraham discover?"
- "If justified by works, has reason to boast"
- "Scripture: Abraham believed God, counted as righteousness"
works_vs_faith:
- "Wages to worker not counted as gift but due"
- "Faith counted as righteousness to one who doesn't work"
david_confirms: "Blessed is the one whose lawless deeds forgiven"
timing_of_justification:
- "Faith counted before circumcision, not after"
- "Received circumcision as seal of righteousness by faith"
- "Father of uncircumcised who believe and circumcised who follow faith"
promise_through_faith:
- "Promise to Abraham not through law but righteousness of faith"
- "If adherents of law are heirs, faith is void and promise nullified"
- "Law brings wrath, but where no law no transgression"
- "Promise guaranteed to all offspring through faith"
abrahams_faith_described:
- "Believed God who gives life to dead, calls nonexistent into existence"
- "Hoped against hope to become father of many nations"
- "Did not weaken in faith considering his own body"
- "Grew strong in faith, giving glory to God"
- "Fully convinced God able to do what he promised"
application_to_believers: "Counted to us who believe in him who raised Jesus from dead"
key_verse: "It was not written for his sake alone that it was counted to him, but for ours also"
results_of_justification:
peace_with_god: "Having been justified by faith, we have peace with God"
access_to_grace: "Access by faith into grace in which we stand"
rejoicing_in_hope: "Rejoice in hope of glory of God"
rejoicing_in_suffering:
- "Suffering produces endurance"
- "Endurance produces character"
- "Character produces hope"
- "Hope doesn't put to shame"
gods_love_demonstrated:
- "God's love poured into hearts through Holy Spirit"
- "Christ died for ungodly at right time"
- "Rarely would one die for a righteous or good person"
- "God shows love - Christ died while we were sinners"
future_salvation_assured:
- "Justified by his blood, saved from wrath"
- "If reconciled when enemies, saved by his life"
- "Rejoice in God through Christ, received reconciliation"
key_verse: "God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us"
adam_and_christ:
sin_entered_through_adam:
- "Sin came into world through one man"
- "Death through sin"
- "Death spread to all because all sinned"
sin_before_the_law:
- "Sin in world before law"
- "Sin not counted where no law"
- "Death reigned from Adam to Moses"
adam_as_type_of_christ: "Adam was type of the one to come"
contrast_of_gifts:
- "Not like trespass - free gift not like transgressions"
- "Many died through one man's sin"
- "Grace and gift by grace abound for many"
- "Gift not like result of one sin"
- "Judgment after one sin brought condemnation"
- "Free gift after many trespasses brings justification"
reigns_contrasted:
- "Death reigned through one man"
- "Recipients of grace reign in life through Christ"
conclusion_of_contrast:
- "One trespass led to condemnation for all"
- "One act of righteousness leads to justification and life"
- "By one man's disobedience many made sinners"
- "By one man's obedience many made righteous"
role_of_law: "Law came to increase trespass"
grace_abounding: "Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more"
ultimate_purpose: "Grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus"
key_verse: "For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous"
Section 4: Sanctification (Romans 6:1-8:39)
sanctification:
freedom_from_sin:
question_of_continuing_in_sin: "Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?"
decisive_answer: "By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?"
baptism_significance:
- "Baptized into Christ Jesus, baptized into his death"
- "Buried with him by baptism into death"
- "As Christ raised, we too walk in newness of life"
- "United with him in death, also in resurrection"
crucifixion_of_old_self:
- "Old self crucified with him"
- "Body of sin brought to nothing"
- "No longer enslaved to sin"
- "One who died freed from sin"
life_with_christ:
- "If died with Christ, we will live with him"
- "Christ no longer dies, death no longer has dominion"
- "Death he died to sin once for all"
- "Life he lives to God"
consider_yourselves: "Consider yourselves dead to sin, alive to God in Christ"
practical_implications:
- "Let not sin reign in mortal body"
- "Do not present members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness"
- "Present yourselves to God and members as instruments for righteousness"
sin_shall_not_have_dominion: "Sin will have no dominion - not under law but grace"
slavery_question: "Shall we sin because not under law but grace?"
slaves_to_whom_you_obey:
- "Present selves as slaves - either of sin or obedience"
- "Slaves of sin leading to death"
- "Slaves of obedience leading to righteousness"
thanks_for_transformation:
- "Once slaves of sin, became obedient from heart"
- "Set free from sin, became slaves of righteousness"
contrasting_slaveries:
- "Once presented members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness"
- "Now present members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification"
- "When slaves of sin, free from righteousness"
- "What fruit then? Things of which now ashamed"
- "End of those things is death"
present_reality:
- "Now set free from sin, slaves of God"
- "Fruit leading to sanctification and eternal life"
conclusion: "Wages of sin is death, free gift of God is eternal life in Christ"
key_verse: "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord"
freedom_from_law:
law_binding_until_death:
- "Law has jurisdiction over person as long as he lives"
- "Married woman bound by law to husband while living"
- "If husband dies, released from law of marriage"
application_to_believers:
- "Put to death to law through body of Christ"
- "Belong to another - him raised from dead"
- "To bear fruit for God"
- "Released from law, having died to what held captive"
- "Serve in new way of Spirit, not old way of written code"
law_not_sin: "Is the law sin? By no means!"
law_reveals_sin:
- "Would not have known sin except through law"
- "Wouldn't know coveting if law hadn't said don't covet"
- "Sin seizing opportunity through commandment"
- "Produced all kinds of covetousness"
sin_and_death:
- "Apart from law, sin lies dead"
- "Once alive apart from law"
- "When commandment came, sin revived, I died"
- "Commandment meant for life brought death"
- "Sin deceived and killed through commandment"
law_is_good:
- "Law is holy, commandment holy, righteous, good"
- "Did that which is good bring death? No!"
- "Sin producing death through what is good"
- "To show sin's sinfulness"
conflict_of_two_natures:
- "Law is spiritual, I am carnal, sold under sin"
- "Don't understand my actions"
- "Don't do what I want, but what I hate"
- "If do what I don't want, I agree law is good"
- "No longer I who do it, but sin dwelling in me"
- "Nothing good dwells in me (my flesh)"
- "Desire to do right, but not ability"
- "Do evil I don't want"
conflicting_laws:
- "Delight in law of God in inner being"
- "See another law in members"
- "Waging war against law of mind"
- "Making me captive to law of sin"
cry_for_deliverance: "Wretched man! Who will deliver me from this body of death?"
answer: "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
conclusion: "I myself serve law of God with mind, but law of sin with flesh"
key_verse: "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
life_in_the_spirit:
no_condemnation: "No condemnation for those in Christ Jesus"
law_of_spirit:
- "Law of Spirit of life has set you free"
- "From law of sin and death"
what_law_couldnt_do:
- "Law weakened by flesh, couldn't do"
- "God did by sending his Son"
- "In likeness of sinful flesh"
- "For sin, condemned sin in flesh"
- "Righteous requirement of law fulfilled in us"
mindsets_contrasted:
- "Those who live according to flesh set minds on flesh"
- "Those who live according to Spirit set minds on Spirit"
- "To set mind on flesh is death"
- "To set mind on Spirit is life and peace"
hostile_mindset:
- "Mind of flesh hostile to God"
- "Does not submit to God's law, cannot"
- "Those in flesh cannot please God"
spirit_indwelling:
- "You not in flesh but Spirit"
- "If Spirit of God dwells in you"
- "Anyone who doesn't have Spirit of Christ doesn't belong to him"
- "If Christ in you, body dead because of sin, Spirit life because of righteousness"
resurrection_promise:
- "If Spirit of him who raised Jesus dwells in you"
- "He will give life to mortal bodies through Spirit"
obligation:
- "We are debtors, not to flesh"
- "If live according to flesh, you will die"
- "If by Spirit put deeds of body to death, you will live"
led_by_spirit:
- "All who are led by Spirit of God are sons of God"
- "Not received spirit of slavery to fall back into fear"
- "Received Spirit of adoption as sons"
- "By him we cry 'Abba! Father!'"
spirit_testifies:
- "Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit"
- "That we are children of God"
heirs:
- "If children, then heirs"
- "Heirs of God, fellow heirs with Christ"
- "If indeed we suffer with him"
- "In order that we may also be glorified with him"
key_verse: "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God"
future_glory:
sufferings_vs_glory: "Present sufferings not worth comparing with glory to be revealed"
creation_waits:
- "Creation waits with eager longing"
- "For revealing of sons of God"
- "Creation subjected to futility"
- "Not willingly, but because of him who subjected it"
- "In hope creation itself will be set free"
- "From bondage to corruption"
- "Into freedom of glory of children of God"
- "Creation groaning in pains of childbirth"
believers_groan:
- "We ourselves groan inwardly"
- "Have firstfruits of Spirit"
- "Waiting for adoption as sons"
- "Redemption of our bodies"
hope:
- "Saved in hope"
- "Hope seen is not hope"
- "If hope for what we don't see, wait for it with patience"
spirit_helps_weakness:
- "Spirit helps us in our weakness"
- "Don't know what to pray for"
- "Spirit intercedes with groanings too deep for words"
- "He who searches hearts knows mind of Spirit"
- "Spirit intercedes for saints according to will of God"
all_things_for_good:
- "All things work together for good"
- "For those who love God"
- "Called according to his purpose"
golden_chain:
- "Those whom he foreknew"
- "He also predestined to be conformed to image of his Son"
- "Those whom he predestined he also called"
- "Those whom he called he also justified"
- "Those whom he justified he also glorified"
gods_protection:
- "If God is for us, who can be against us?"
- "He who did not spare his own Son"
- "How will he not graciously give us all things?"
no_accusation:
- "Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?"
- "God is the one who justifies"
- "Who is to condemn?"
- "Christ Jesus is the one who died, was raised, at right hand of God, interceding"
inseparable_love:
- "Who shall separate us from love of Christ?"
- "Tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, sword?"
- "For your sake we are killed all day long"
- "In all these things we are more than conquerors"
- "Nothing can separate us from love of God in Christ Jesus"
key_verse: "We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose"
Section 5: Israel in God's Plan (Romans 9:1-11:36)
israel_in_gods_plan:
israels_past:
pauls_sorrow:
- "Speaking truth in Christ, not lying"
- "Conscience bearing witness in Holy Spirit"
- "Great sorrow and unceasing anguish in heart"
- "Could wish self accursed, cut off from Christ"
- "For sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh"
israelite_privileges:
- "Israelites"
- "Adoption"
- "Glory"
- "Covenants"
- "Giving of law"
- "Worship"
- "Promises"
- "Patriarchs"
- "From their race, Christ according to flesh"
- "He is God over all, blessed forever"
true_israel:
- "Word of God has not failed"
- "Not all from Israel belong to Israel"
- "Not all Abraham's children are his offspring"
- "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named"
- "Children of promise counted as offspring"
gods_purpose_in_election:
- "When Rebecca had conceived children by one man"
- "Before born or done good or evil"
- "In order that God's purpose of election might stand"
- "Not because of works but because of him who calls"
- "Older will serve younger"
- "Jacob I loved, Esau I hated"
objection_and_answer:
- "Is there injustice with God? By no means!"
- "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy"
- "Depends not on human will or exertion, but on God's mercy"
- "Scripture says to Pharaoh: raised you up to show my power"
- "He has mercy on whomever he wills, hardens whomever he wills"
potter_and_clay:
- "Why does he still find fault? Who can resist his will?"
- "Who are you to answer back to God?"
- "Does potter have right over clay?"
- "To make from same lump vessels for honorable use, dishonorable use"
- "What if God, willing to show wrath and power..."
- "Endured with patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction"
- "To make known riches of glory for vessels of mercy"
vessels_of_mercy:
- "Called, not only from Jews but from Gentiles"
- "Quotes from Hosea about not my people becoming my people"
- "Quotes from Isaiah about remnant being saved"
- "The Lord will carry out sentence upon earth"
- "If Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, like Sodom"
key_verse: "So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy"
israels_present:
gentiles_and_israel:
- "Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness attained it"
- "Righteousness that is by faith"
- "Israel pursued law of righteousness, did not succeed"
- "Because they pursued it by works, not by faith"
- "Stumbled over stumbling stone"
- "Behold I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling"
- "Whoever believes in him will not be put to shame"
pauls_prayer:
- "Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer is for their salvation"
- "They have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge"
- "Being ignorant of righteousness of God"
- "Seeking to establish their own"
- "Did not submit to God's righteousness"
christ_fulfills_law:
- "Christ is end of law for righteousness to everyone who believes"
- "Moses writes about righteousness based on law"
- "Person who does commandments shall live by them"
righteousness_by_faith:
- "Righteousness based on faith says..."
- "Do not say in heart, 'Who will ascend to heaven?' (bring Christ down)"
- "Or 'Who will descend into abyss?' (bring Christ up)"
- "Word is near you, in mouth and heart"
- "If confess with mouth Jesus is Lord"
- "Believe in heart God raised him from dead"
- "You will be saved"
- "With heart one believes and is justified"
- "With mouth one confesses and is saved"
- "Scripture says, 'No one who believes in him will be put to shame'"
universal_offer:
- "No distinction between Jew and Greek"
- "Same Lord is Lord of all"
- "Bestowing riches on all who call on him"
- "Everyone who calls on name of Lord will be saved"
preaching_necessary:
- "How to call on one in whom not believed?"
- "How believe in one never heard?"
- "How hear without someone preaching?"
- "How preach unless sent?"
- "How beautiful are feet of those who preach good news"
israel_heard_but_disobeyed:
- "Not all obeyed the gospel"
- "Isaiah says, 'Lord, who has believed what he heard from us?'"
- "Faith comes from hearing, hearing through word of Christ"
- "Have they not heard? Indeed they have"
- "Their voice has gone out to all the earth"
- "Did Israel not understand?"
- "Moses says, 'I will make you jealous of a non-nation'"
- "Isaiah boldly says, 'I have been found by those who did not seek me'"
- "Of Israel: 'All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient people'"
key_verse: "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved"
israels_future:
god_has_not_rejected_people:
- "Has God rejected his people? By no means!"
- "I myself am an Israelite, offspring of Abraham, tribe of Benjamin"
- "God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew"
example_of_elijah:
- "Elijah appealed to God against Israel"
- "Lord, they have killed your prophets, demolished altars"
- "I alone am left, and they seek my life"
- "Divine response: 'I have kept for myself 7,000 men'"
present_remnant:
- "At present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace"
- "If by grace, not by works"
- "Otherwise grace would no longer be grace"
israels_hardening:
- "Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking"
- "The elect obtained it, rest were hardened"
- "God gave them spirit of stupor, eyes not to see, ears not to hear"
- "David: 'Let their table become a snare and a trap'"
purpose_of_israels_stumbling:
- "Did they stumble in order to fall? By no means!"
- "Through their trespass salvation has come to Gentiles"
- "To make Israel jealous"
- "If their trespass means riches for world..."
- "How much more will their full inclusion mean!"
paul_to_gentiles:
- "I am apostle to Gentiles, magnify my ministry"
- "In order to make my fellow Jews jealous"
- "If their rejection means reconciliation of world"
- "What will their acceptance mean but life from dead?"
- "If firstfruits holy, so is the whole lump"
- "If root is holy, so are the branches"
olive_tree_analogy:
- "If some branches broken off"
- "You, a wild olive shoot, grafted in"
- "Now share in nourishing root of olive tree"
- "Do not be arrogant toward branches"
- "Not you who support the root, but root supports you"
- "Branches broken off so I might be grafted in"
- "Broken off because of unbelief"
- "You stand fast through faith"
- "Do not become proud, but fear"
- "If God did not spare natural branches, neither will he spare you"
kindness_and_severity:
- "Note then kindness and severity of God"
- "Severity toward those who have fallen"
- "God's kindness to you, if you continue in his kindness"
- "Otherwise you too will be cut off"
- "If they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in"
- "God has power to graft them in again"
- "If you were cut from wild olive tree"
- "And grafted, contrary to nature, into cultivated olive tree"
- "How much more will these, natural branches, be grafted into own olive tree"
mystery_revealed:
- "Do not want you to be uninformed of this mystery"
- "A partial hardening has come upon Israel"
- "Until fullness of Gentiles has come in"
- "In this way all Israel will be saved"
- "The Deliverer will come from Zion"
- "He will banish ungodliness from Jacob"
- "This will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins"
status_of_israel:
- "As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake"
- "As regards election, they are beloved for sake of forefathers"
- "For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable"
- "Just as you were once disobedient to God"
- "But now have received mercy because of their disobedience"
- "So they too have now been disobedient"
- "In order that by mercy shown to you they also may receive mercy"
- "God has consigned all to disobedience"
- "That he may have mercy on all"
doxology:
- "Oh, the depth of riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!"
- "How unsearchable his judgments and inscrutable his ways!"
- "Who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"
- "Who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"
- "For from him and through him and to him are all things"
- "To him be glory forever. Amen."
key_verse: "For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable"
Section 6: Christian Living (Romans 12:1-15:13)
christian_living:
transformed_life:
living_sacrifice:
- "I appeal to you by mercies of God"
- "Present your bodies as living sacrifice"
- "Holy and acceptable to God"
- "Your spiritual worship"
mind_renewal:
- "Do not be conformed to this world"
- "Be transformed by renewal of your mind"
- "That by testing you may discern"
- "What is the will of God"
- "What is good and acceptable and perfect"
proper_self_assessment:
- "By grace given to me I say to everyone"
- "Not to think of himself more highly than he ought"
- "Think with sober judgment"
- "According to measure of faith God has assigned"
body_metaphor:
- "As in one body many members"
- "Members do not all have same function"
- "So we, though many, are one body in Christ"
- "Individually members one of another"
spiritual_gifts:
- "Having gifts that differ according to grace given"
- "Prophecy - in proportion to faith"
- "Service - in serving"
- "Teaching - in teaching"
- "Exhorting - in exhortation"
- "Contributing - in generosity"
- "Leading - with zeal"
- "Acts of mercy - with cheerfulness"
marks_of_genuine_love:
- "Let love be genuine"
- "Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good"
- "Love one another with brotherly affection"
- "Outdo one another in showing honor"
- "Do not be slothful in zeal"
- "Be fervent in spirit"
- "Serve the Lord"
- "Rejoice in hope"
- "Be patient in tribulation"
- "Be constant in prayer"
- "Contribute to needs of saints"
- "Seek to show hospitality"
relating_to_others:
- "Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse"
- "Rejoice with those who rejoice"
- "Weep with those who weep"
- "Live in harmony with one another"
- "Do not be haughty"
- "Associate with the lowly"
- "Never be wise in your own sight"
- "Repay no one evil for evil"
- "Give thought to do what is honorable in sight of all"
- "If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all"
overcoming_evil:
- "Never avenge yourselves"
- "Leave it to the wrath of God"
- "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord"
- "If enemy is hungry, feed him; if thirsty, give him drink"
- "In doing so you will heap burning coals on his head"
- "Do not be overcome by evil"
- "Overcome evil with good"
key_verse: "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind"
submission_to_authorities:
governing_authorities:
- "Let every person be subject to governing authorities"
- "No authority except from God"
- "Those that exist have been instituted by God"
- "Whoever resists authorities resists what God appointed"
- "Those who resist will incur judgment"
purpose_of_government:
- "Rulers not a terror to good conduct, but to bad"
- "Do what is good, receive approval"
- "God's servant for your good"
- "If you do wrong, be afraid"
- "Does not bear sword in vain"
- "God's servant, avenger who carries out wrath on wrongdoer"
necessity_of_submission:
- "Be in subjection, not only to avoid wrath"
- "But also for sake of conscience"
- "For same reason pay taxes"
- "Authorities are ministers of God"
- "Attending to this very thing"
obligations:
- "Pay to all what is owed"
- "Taxes to whom taxes owed"
- "Revenue to whom revenue owed"
- "Respect to whom respect owed"
- "Honor to whom honor owed"
law_fulfilled_in_love:
- "Owe no one anything, except to love each other"
- "One who loves another has fulfilled the law"
- "Commandments summed up in 'Love your neighbor as yourself'"
- "Love does no wrong to a neighbor"
- "Therefore love is fulfilling of the law"
urgency_of_salvation:
- "You know the time, hour has come to wake from sleep"
- "Salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed"
- "Night is far gone, day is at hand"
- "Cast off works of darkness"
- "Put on armor of light"
- "Walk properly as in the daytime"
- "Not in orgies and drunkenness"
- "Not in sexual immorality and sensuality"
- "Not in quarreling and jealousy"
- "Put on the Lord Jesus Christ"
- "Make no provision for flesh, to gratify its desires"
key_verse: "Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law"
dealing_with_differences:
welcoming_the_weak:
- "Welcome one who is weak in faith"
- "But not to quarrel over opinions"
- "One believes he may eat anything"
- "Weak person eats only vegetables"
- "Let not one who eats despise one who abstains"
- "Let not one who abstains pass judgment on one who eats"
- "For God has welcomed him"
not_judging_others:
- "Who are you to pass judgment on servant of another?"
- "Before his own master he stands or falls"
- "And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand"
- "One person esteems one day as better than another"
- "Another esteems all days alike"
- "Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind"
living_for_the_lord:
- "One who observes day, observes it in honor of the Lord"
- "One who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, gives thanks to God"
- "One who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord, gives thanks to God"
- "None of us lives to himself, none dies to himself"
- "If we live, we live to the Lord"
- "If we die, we die to the Lord"
- "So then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's"
- "For to this end Christ died and lived again"
- "That he might be Lord both of dead and of living"
accountable_to_god:
- "Why do you pass judgment on your brother?"
- "Why do you despise your brother?"
- "For we will all stand before judgment seat of God"
- "As I live, every knee shall bow to me"
- "Every tongue shall confess to God"
- "Each of us will give account of himself to God"
not_causing_others_to_stumble:
- "Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another"
- "Rather decide never to put stumbling block in way of brother"
- "I know and am persuaded in Lord Jesus nothing is unclean in itself"
- "But it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean"
- "If your brother is grieved by what you eat, not walking in love"
- "Do not by your eating destroy one for whom Christ died"
- "Do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil"
kingdom_priorities:
- "Kingdom of God is not matter of eating and drinking"
- "But of righteousness and peace and joy in Holy Spirit"
- "Whoever serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men"
- "Let us pursue what makes for peace and mutual upbuilding"
- "Do not, for sake of food, destroy work of God"
- "Everything is clean, but it is wrong to make another stumble"
- "It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes brother to stumble"
faith_and_conscience:
- "Faith that you have, keep between yourself and God"
- "Blessed is one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself"
- "But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats"
- "Because eating is not from faith"
- "For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin"
pleasing_others_not_self:
- "We who are strong ought to bear with failings of weak"
- "Not to please ourselves"
- "Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up"
- "For Christ did not please himself"
- "But as it is written, 'Reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me'"
scripture_for_endurance:
- "Whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction"
- "That through endurance and encouragement of Scriptures we might have hope"
- "May God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in harmony"
- "In accord with Christ Jesus"
- "That together you may with one voice glorify God"
mutual_welcome:
- "Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you"
- "For the glory of God"
- "Christ became servant to circumcised to show God's truthfulness"
- "In order to confirm promises given to patriarchs"
- "And in order that Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy"
- "As it is written, 'I will confess you among Gentiles'"
- "Scripture quotes showing Gentile inclusion"
benediction:
- "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing"
- "So that by power of Holy Spirit you may abound in hope"
key_verse: "May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus"
Section 7: Conclusion (Romans 15:14-16:27)
conclusion:
pauls_ministry_and_plans:
confidence_in_romans:
- "I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers"
- "That you yourselves are full of goodness"
- "Filled with all knowledge"
- "Able to instruct one another"
pauls_boldness:
- "I have written very boldly to you on some points"
- "To remind you"
- "Because of grace given me by God"
- "To be minister of Christ Jesus to Gentiles"
- "In priestly service of gospel of God"
- "So that offering of Gentiles may be acceptable"
- "Sanctified by Holy Spirit"
ministry_accomplishments:
- "In Christ Jesus I have reason to be proud of my work for God"
- "Will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ accomplished through me"
- "To bring Gentiles to obedience"
- "By word and deed"
- "By power of signs and wonders"
- "By power of Spirit of God"
- "From Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum"
- "I have fulfilled ministry of gospel of Christ"
ambition_to_preach:
- "I make it my ambition to preach gospel"
- "Not where Christ has already been named"
- "Lest I build on someone else's foundation"
- "As it is written, 'Those who have never been told will see'"
plan_to_visit_rome:
- "This is reason why I have been prevented from coming to you"
- "But now, since I no longer have room for work in these regions"
- "Since I have longed for many years to come to you"
- "I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain"
- "To be helped on my journey there by you"
- "Once I have enjoyed your company for a while"
jerusalem_collection:
- "At present, I am going to Jerusalem"
- "Bringing aid to the saints"
- "Macedonia and Achaia pleased to make contribution"
- "For poor among saints at Jerusalem"
- "They were pleased to do it"
- "They are indebted to them"
- "If Gentiles have come to share in spiritual blessings"
- "They ought to be of service to them in material blessings"
- "When I have completed this"
- "And have delivered to them what has been collected"
- "I will leave for Spain by way of you"
blessing_requested:
- "When I come to you, I will come in fullness of blessing of Christ"
- "I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ"
- "And by love of the Spirit"
- "To strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf"
- "That I may be delivered from unbelievers in Judea"
- "That my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to saints"
- "So that by God's will I may come to you with joy"
- "And be refreshed in your company"
- "May the God of peace be with you all. Amen."
key_verse: "I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you"
personal_greetings:
commendation_of_phoebe:
- "I commend to you our sister Phoebe"
- "A servant of the church at Cenchreae"
- "That you may welcome her in the Lord"
- "In a way worthy of the saints"
- "Help her in whatever she may need from you"
- "For she has been a patron of many"
- "And of myself as well"
greetings_to_people:
- "Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus"
- "Who risked their necks for my life"
- "Greet also the church in their house"
- "Greet my beloved Epaenetus"
- "First convert to Christ in Asia"
- "Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you"
- "Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners"
- "They are well known to the apostles"
- "They were in Christ before me"
- "Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord"
- "Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ"
- "And my beloved Stachys"
- "Greet Apelles, approved in Christ"
- "Greet those who belong to family of Aristobulus"
- "Greet my kinsman Herodion"
- "Greet those in the Lord from family of Narcissus"
- "Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa"
- "Greet beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord"
- "Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord"
- "Also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well"
- "Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas"
- "And the brothers who are with them"
- "Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas"
- "And all the saints who are with them"
holy_kiss: "Greet one another with a holy kiss"
churches_greet: "All the churches of Christ greet you"
key_verse: "I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae"
final_instructions_and_doxology:
warning_against_division:
- "I appeal to you, brothers"
- "Watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles"
- "Contrary to doctrine that you have been taught"
- "Avoid them"
- "For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ"
- "But their own appetites"
- "By smooth talk and flattery"
- "They deceive hearts of naive"
encouragement:
- "Your obedience is known to all"
- "So I rejoice over you"
- "But I want you to be wise as to what is good"
- "And innocent as to what is evil"
- "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet"
- "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you"
greetings_from_pauls_companions:
- "Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you"
- "So do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen"
- "I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord"
- "Gaius, who is host to me and whole church, greets you"
- "Erastus, city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you"
doxology:
- "Now to him who is able to strengthen you"
- "According to my gospel and preaching of Jesus Christ"
- "According to revelation of mystery kept secret for long ages"
- "But now disclosed"
- "And through prophetic writings made known"
- "According to command of eternal God"
- "To bring about obedience of faith"
- "To the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen."
key_verse: "To the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen."