Second Reading

Commentary on Romans 12:9-21

Just as Paul cannot help breaking out in poetic tribute to love in his famous [...]

Commentary on Romans 12:1-8

While the argument of the letter to the Romans opened with a preoccupation regarding God’s [...]

Commentary on Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32

Paul continues to draw upon the whole of scripture, the [...]

Commentary on Romans 10:5-15

Following the introduction to these three chapters in Romans (9:1-5), Paul draws upon several Old [...]

Commentary on Romans 9:1-5

We now enter into a three-chapter exposition on the providence of God (9:1-11:36). In these [...]

Commentary on Romans 8:26-39

Paul brings the first eight chapters of Romans to a resounding conclusion in these verses [...]

Commentary on Romans 8:12-25

Chapters 5-8 of Paul’s epistle to the Romans are practically a self-contained meditation on the [...]

Commentary on Romans 8:1-11

The transition between chapters 7 and 8 presents interpreters with a challenge, namely, to know [...]

Commentary on Romans 7:15-25a

Romans is regularly recognized to be Paul’s most seriously sustained theological reflection in the corpus [...]

Commentary on Romans 6:12-23

Diving into this lesson at v. 12 of Romans 6 puts one midstream into a [...]