The Letter to the R O M A N S

1. Where was the gospel promised beforehand?
2. Who is Jesus described as the Son and the descendant of?
3. What kind of relationship does Paul express toward the Roman Christians?
4. What is Paul eager to preach?
5. What is the gospel called in verse 16?

1. What does “obedience of faith” mean in context?
2. How does “the righteous shall live by faith” shape Christian doctrine?

1. + How should we think about the gospel’s power in relation to human weakness?
   

2 In what ways can you grow in eagerness for the gospel like Paul?
3.+ What can you be more unashamed of the gospel today?

1. What is being revealed from heaven?
2. What have people suppressed?
3. What can be known about God from creation?
4. What did people exchange the truth of God for?
5. What kind of sins are listed in verses 29–31?

1. How does creation leave people “without excuse”?
2. Who is the “you” of 2:1?
3. What is God’s impartiality? Does He treat everyone the same? How does he do this if he condemns some and saves others?

1. How does understanding God’s justice shape our morality?
   

2 What emotions should arise when I consider God’s wrath against sin?

1. How can one live with greater humility and repentance in light of God’s impartial judgment?
   

1. Who will perish apart from the law?
2. Who will be judged by the law?
3. What role does the conscience play?
4. What are the Jews entrusted with?
5. What does Paul anticipate people saying about sin and grace?

1. How does conscience function as a moral law?
2. What does this section say about the relationship between God’s faithfulness and human sin?

1. How can we know if we are trusting tradition or genuinely obeying

from the heart?
2 How can I grow in faithfulness when I see others fall short?

1. What step can I take this week to obey God more fully with integrity?

1. Who is under sin?
2. What kinds of speech and actions describe sinful humanity?
3. What is the purpose of the law?
4. What does “justified freely by His grace” mean?
5. How did God display His righteousness?
6. What role does boasting have in salvation?

1. What does it mean that “God presented Christ as a propitiation”?
2. How does faith uphold the law?

1. How do we accept justification as a gift?
   
2. How does God’s grace stir my affections?
   
3. How is living by faith different than living by works?
   

1. What was Abraham’s position before circumcision?
2. How was righteousness credited to him in Genesis 15:6?
3. What role does circumcision play in relation to faith?
4. Who else is included in the blessing given to Abraham?
5. What did Abraham believe God could do?
6. How does Paul connect Abraham’s faith to believers today?

1. Why does Paul use Abraham as the central example of faith?
2. What does it mean that God “calls things into being that do not exist”?

1. How is your faith similar to or different from Abraham’s?
   

2 How should Psalm 32:1-2 affect our hearts?

1. How should Abraham’s example of faith help us live under Christ?
   

1. What results from being justified by faith?
2. What do we boast in?
3. What is said about suffering?
4. How is God’s love demonstrated?
5. When did Christ die for us?
6. What results from being reconciled to God?

1. How does Paul define “hope that does not disappoint”?
2. What does this passage teach about God’s initiative in salvation?

1. How has God proven his love for us?
   

2 What was the cost of our sin for Christ and the Father?

1. How can you sympathize with Christ in your own sufferings?
   

1. How did sin enter the world?
2. What was the result of Adam’s sin?
3. What is said about the gift vs. the trespass?
4. Who reigns through righteousness?
5. How does chapter 6 begin to shift focus?
6. What does baptism symbolize?

1. How are Adam and Christ similar and different?
2. What is the significance of baptism in the life of the believer?

1. How are you made righteous?
   

2 How does this passage help tune our affections regarding God’s grace and our sin?

1. Suppose you are helping a Christian brother who feels he’s

sinned too much to recieve God’s grace anymore. How could you use this passage to help him?

1. What are believers united with Christ in?
2. What is said about the old self?
3. What does being dead to sin mean?
4. What should we not let reign in our bodies?
5. What fruit comes from righteousness?
6. What is the final result of sin and the gift of God?

1. What does it mean to be “slaves to righteousness”?
2. How is sanctification different from justification?

1. How can I offer my body as an instrument of righteousness today?

2 Meditate on being freed from sin. How does that affect your heart?

1. What can you do to present your body as an instrument of righteousness?
   

1. What does Paul use as an illustration of law?
2. What are believers released from?
3. What does Paul say about the Law itself?
4. What does sin do through the commandment?
5. How does Paul describe his experience under the Law?
6. What is the result of sin revealed by the Law?

1. What is the role of the Law in making sin known?
2. How can something good (the Law) bring death?

1. Do I view God’s commands as life-giving or burdensome?
2. How can I stay alert to the deceptive power of sin?
3. How can you expose sin in your own life?

1. What kind of struggle does Paul describe? How is the “I” in 7:14-24?
2. How does he feel about what he does and doesn’t do?
3. What does Paul delight in?
4. What does he call himself?
5. What solution does chapter 8 present?
6. What is said about condemnation?

1. What is the difference between walking according to the flesh vs. the Spirit?
2. How does union with Christ free us from the law of sin and death?

1. Who rescues us from death?

2 How does Paul’s depiction of struggling with help you in your on struggles?

1. How does this passage motivate us to let Christ win in ourselves?

1. What is the mind set on the flesh?
2. What is the mind set on the Spirit?
3. Who does not belong to Christ?
4. What gives life to mortal bodies?
5. What kind of spirit have we received?
6. What does it mean to be co-heirs with Christ?

1. What does it mean to have the Spirit of sonship?
2. What does it mean to suffer with Christ?

1. What is of the Spirit that you can dwell on to live by the Spirt?
   

2 How does crying, “Abba, Father” help us to struggle against sin?

1. How do we, according to this passage, put to death the deeds of

the body?

1. What is creation waiting for?
2. What does the Spirit do in our weakness?
3. What is God working together for good?
4. Who can be against us?
5. What can separate us from God’s love?
6. How are we described in all these things?

1. How does God’s foreknowledge and predestination assure the believer?
2. What is the impact of knowing that nothing can separate us from God’s love?

1. What should every Christian know, according to this passage, about what God has done, is doing, and will do for His children?

2 Meditate on what cannot stand against you. How does it fill you heart?

1. What should we do knowing we are more than conquerors?