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To the Romans: Translation -- Rome and Roman Christians -- Authorship -- The text -- Unity and integrity -- Occasion and purpose -- Date and place of composition -- Language and style -- Structure and outline -- Pauline teaching in Romans -- Theology proper, teaching about God -- Christology, teaching about Christ Jesus and His role in God's salvific plan -- Pneumatology, teaching about the Holy Spirit -- Anthropology, teaching about human beings without and with the influence of the Gospel -- Christian conduct, or teaching about the call of humanity to Spirit-guided existence --

Translation, commentary and notes -- Address and greeting (1:1-7) -- Thanksgiving (1:8-9) -- Proem: Paul's desire to come to Rome (1:10-15) -- Pt. 1: Doctrinal section: God's gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord (1:16-11:36) -- Through the gospel the uprightness of God is revealed as justifying people of faith (1:16-4:25) -- Theme announced: The gospel is the powerful source of salvation for all, disclosing god's uprightness (1:16-17) -- Theme negatively explained: Without the gospel God's wrath is manifested against all human beings (1:18-3:20) -- God's wrath manifested against pagans (1:18-32) -- God's judgment manifested against Jews -- indeed, against all human beings (2:1-3:20) -- Discernment at God's eschatological judgment (2:1-110 -- The law and its observance (2:12-16) -- Transgression of the law by Jews (2:17-24) -- Circumcision does not make the real Jew (2:25-29) -- Objections to this thesis about the Jews (3:1-9) -- All human beings, Jews and Greeks alike, are sinners (3:10-20) -- Theme positive explained: God's uprightness is manifested to all sinners through Christ and apprehended by faith (3:21-31) -- All share without distinction in the justification, redemption, and expiation of Christ Jesus (3:21-26) -- Polemical development of this theme (3:27-31) --

Theme illustrated in the law: Abraham was justified by faith, not by deeds (4:1-25) -- Abraham justified by faith (4:1-8) -- Abraham justified before he was circumcised (4:9-12) -- As with Abraham, the promise comes only to the people of faith (4:13-25) -- The love of God further assures salvation to those justified by faith (5:1-8:39) -- Theme announced: Justified Christians are reconciled to the God of love; they will be saved through hope of a share in the risen life of Christ (5:1-11) -- Theme explained: New Christian life brings a threefold liberation and is empowered by the Spirit (5:12-8:13) -- Freedom from the power of death and sin (5:12-21) -- Freedom from self through union with Christ (6:1-23) -- Freedom from sin and self through baptism (6:1-11) -- Freedom for commitment (6:12-23) -- Freedom from the law (7:1-25) -- Freedom from the law by the death of Christ (7:1-6) -- Role of the law in human life (7:7-13) -- Complaint and cry of human beings enslaved by the law (7:14-25) -- Christian life empowered by the Spirit of God (8:1-13)

Theme developed: Christian life, lived in freedom bestowed by the indwelling Spirit, has its destiny in glory (8:14-39) -- Through the Spirit the Christian becomes a child of God, destined for glory (8:14-17) -- Three things testify to this new destiny: Creation groaning in travail (8:18-23) -- The fact of Christian hope (8:24-25) -- Even the Spirit (8:26-27) -- The Christian called and destined for glory (8:28-30) -- Hymn to the love of God made manifest through Christ Jesus (8:31-39) -- This justification and salvation through faith do not contradict God's promises to Israel of Old (9:1-11:36) -- Paul's lament about his former coreligionists (9:1-5) -- Israel's failure; It is not contrary to God's direction of history (9:6-29) -- God's promise to Israel stem from His gratuitous election of it as His people; hence His Word has not failed (9:6-13) -- God's sovereign freedom even uses indocility to His purpose (9:14-23) -- god does not act arbitrarily: Israel's call, infidelity, and remnant are foreseen in what God announced in the Old Testament (9:24-29) --

Israel's failure: It is derived from its own refusal (9:30-10:21) -- Israel has stumbled in its pursuit of uprightness (9:30-33) -- Uprightness comes from faith in Christ, who is the end of the law (10:1-4) -- The new way of uprightness, open to all, is easy and near at hand, as scripture shows (10:5-13) -- Israel has not responded to this preached word (10:14-21) --

Israel's failure: It is partial and temporary (11:1-36) -- Israel's hardening is partial (11:1-10) -- Israel's disbelief is temporary and providential (11:11-24) -- The mystery of Israel: It will al be saved (11:25-32) -- Hymn of praise to God's wisdom and mercy (11:33-36) --

Pt. 2: Hortatory section: The demands of upright life in Christ (12:1-15:13) -- Spirit-guided Christian life must be worship paid to God (12:1-13:14) -- Life in the world as worship of God (12:1-2) -- Sober existence using God's gifts for all (12:3-8) -- Counsels for Christians living in the community (12:9-21) -- The relation of Christians to civil authorities (13:1-7) -- The debt of love that fulfills the law (13:8-10) -- Eschatological exhortation: Christian life as vigilant conduct (13:11-14) -- The duty of love owed by the strong in the community to the weak (14:1-15:13) -- Christian solidarity: Its extent and its limits (14:1-12) -- The marks of Christ's rule in the community (14:13-23) -- Christ is our model in all conduct (15:1-6) -- Welcome all who turn to Christ as Lord, Jew and Gentile (15:7-13) --

Pt. 3: Paul's plans, coming task, and request for prayers (15:14-33) -- Paul's missionary principle in his work so far; his desire to visit the Romans en route to Spain (15:14-24) -- His coming task before that visit: To carry a collection to the poor of Jerusalem (15:25-29) -- Paul's request for prayers that his mission to Jerusalem may succeed; his concluding blessing (15:30-33) --

Pt. 4: Conclusion: Letter of recommendation for Phoebe and greetings to Roman Christians (16:1-23) -- Paul recommends Phoebe, a minister of Cenchreae (16:1-2) -- Paul's greetings to various persons (16:3-16) -- Paul's admonition about false teachers; his concluding blessing (16:17-20) -- Greetings from Paul's companions and the scribe Tertius (16:21-23) --

Pt. 5: Doxology (16:25-27) -- Glory to the God of wisdom through Jesus Christ (16:25-27).