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Romans 4 is a short but dense essay concerned especially with Abraham and Abraham’s God. Concerning Abraham, Paul focuses on his role in God’s promise and, then, on his trust in God in the face (...)

Some interpreters observe that Romans 8 is the pinnacle of Paul’s letter to the Romans. Indeed, Romans 8:18-39 sounds climactic, anticipating future glory “about to be revealed to us” (8:18-30), and declaring the unfailing love (...)

The more I read the letters to the Corinthians, the more I appreciate the courage and boldness of this community as they wrestled with what it meant to be people of faith. The community at (...)

As is typical in Romans, Paul begins with a rhetorical question. “What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound?” (Romans 6:1).1 Right before, in Romans 5:20, Paul (...)

In 1 Peter 4-5, the apostle continues to care for the souls of the early church in the midst of the fiery trials of faithfulness in a faithless world. When we, like the early Christians, (...)

Paul’s Letter to the Romans is his gospel proclamation for both Jewish and gentile believers in Rome, written in preparation for his upcoming visit there. The first 17 verses of the letter are a roadmap (...)

In Romans, Paul declares the good news that God restores and makes right people’s covenant relationships through Jesus Christ’s obedience (Romans 1:16-17; 3:21-26).1 In the middle section of the letter, he describes the shape of (...)

There were many in the early Jesus movement who identified the “servant” in Isaiah 52:13—53:12 (hereafter Isaiah 53) with Jesus; that much is certain (for example, Matthew 8:17; John 12:38; Romans 15:21; 1 Peter 2:22). (...)

The epistle lesson for the Second Sunday in Lent continues in Romans. After laying out his theology of sin and grace on the macro level in Romans 5:12-21, in Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 we see Paul’s (...)

The epistle lesson for the Third Sunday in Lent continues in Romans. It may seem like we’re jumping around the letter, but there is a logic to it. In Romans 5:12-21 we see Paul’s theology (...)