Romans 13

Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. (Romans 13:8 CSB) Can you imagine a world where we lived like this? Where love was the only debt we owed? Instead of sitting down to make a mortgage or...

Romans 12

If possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. (Romans 12:18 CSB) My mom used to say, “it takes two to tango,” and she was right. By definition, arguments and fights require two sides. We often like to think of peace the same way, but...

Romans 11

Oh, the depths of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways! (Romans 11:33 CSB)  We ask questions when we don’t know the answers. God has all the answers -- He is the answer! We see life in small fragments, but...

Romans 10

One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. (Romans 10:10 CSB) By this point in Romans, we have heard the good news of the gospel. But have we just heard it, or have we believed it? Hearing is not the same as...

Romans 9

So then, it does not depend on human will or effort but on God, who shows mercy. (Romans 9:16 CSB) This is a difficult chapter to understand. If it doesn’t depend on us, then why doesn’t God save everyone? The easy answer is that it doesn’t depend on us; it...

Romans 8

Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger, or sword? For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor...

Romans 7

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. (Romans 7:18 CSB) Have you ever known the right thing to do, but still did the wrong...

Romans 6

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 CSB) When you have a job, you are paid a wage based on the work you do; gifts are free…we don’t have to do anything to receive a...

Romans 5

But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8 CSB) God’s love is unique above all others. He did not wait until we had everything figured out. He is not interested in what we look like or how...

Romans 4

As it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations” – in the presence of the God in whom he believed, the one who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist. (Romans 4:17 CSB) The God we believe in makes...