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JULY 30
33 Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will and to barbarians, both to wise and to unwise.
not utterly take from him, 15 So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach
Nor allow My faithfulness to fail. the gospel to you who are in Rome also.
34 My covenant I will not break, 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of
Nor alter the word that has gone out of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation
My lips. for everyone who believes, for the Jew first
35 Once I have sworn by My holiness; and also for the Greek. For in it the righ-
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I will not lie to David: teousness of God is revealed from faith to faith;
36 His seed shall endure forever, as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
And his throne as the sun before Me; 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heav-
37 It shall be established forever like the en against all ungodliness and unrighteous-
moon, ness of men, who suppress the truth in
Even like the faithful witness
in the sky.” Selah
Proverbs 22:3–4
3 A prudent man foresees evil and hides 1:17 The just shall live by faith. Paul intends
himself, to prove that it has always been God’s way to
But the simple pass on and are punished. justify sinners by grace on the basis of faith
alone. God established Abraham as a pattern
4 of faith (4:22–25; Gal. 3:6,7) and thus calls him
By humility and the fear of the LORD
Are riches and honor and life. the father of all who believe (4:11,16).
Elsewhere, Paul uses this same phrase to
Romans 1:1–32 argue that no one has ever been declared
Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be righteous before God except by faith alone
1 an apostle, separated to the gospel of God (Gal.3:11) and that true faith will demonstrate
2 itself in action (Phil. 2:12,13). This expression
which He promised before through His
prophets in the Holy Scriptures, concerning His emphasizes that true faith is not a single
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event, but a way of life—it endures. That
Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the endurance is called the perseverance of the
seed of David according to the flesh, and de- saints (Col. 1:22,23; Heb. 3:12–14). One central
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clared to be the Son of God with power accord- theme of the story of Job is that no matter
ing to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection what Satan does, saving faith cannot be
from the dead. Through Him we have received destroyed.
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grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith
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among all nations for His name, among whom 1:18 wrath of God. This is not an impulsive
you also are the called of Jesus Christ; outburst of anger aimed capriciously at peo-
ple whom God does not like. It is the settled,
To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, determined response of a righteous God
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called to be saints: against sin.
Grace to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ unrighteousness, because what may be
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for you all, that your faith is spoken of through- known of God is manifest in them, for God has
out the whole world. For God is my witness, shown it to them. For since the creation of the
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whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of world His invisible attributes are clearly seen,
His Son, that without ceasing I make mention being understood by the things that are made,
of you always in my prayers, making request even His eternal power and Godhead, so that
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if, by some means, now at last I may find a way they are without excuse, because, although
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in the will of God to come to you. For I long to they knew God, they did not glorify Him as
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see you, that I may impart to you some spiritu- God, nor were thankful, but became futile in
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al gift, so that you may be established— that their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were
is, that I may be encouraged together with you darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they
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by the mutual faith both of you and me. became fools, and changed the glory of the
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Now I do not want you to be unaware, incorruptible God into an image made like
brethren, that I often planned to come to you corruptible man—and birds and four-footed
(but was hindered until now), that I might have animals and creeping things.
some fruit among you also, just as among the 24 Therefore God also gave them up to
other Gentiles. I am a debtor both to Greeks uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dis-
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