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Romans
1
R
1: 1
Paul,
/ a servant of Christ Jesus, (is) called to be an apostle
and set apart for what? The gospel of God
Who (is) called / to be an apostle? Paul, a servant
of Christ Jesus
Who (is) set / apart for the gospel of God? Paul,
a servant of Christ Jesus
R
1: 2
What
(is) the gospel he / promised beforehand through his prophets
in the Holy Scriptures? The gospel of God
Who promised the / gospel beforehand through his prophets
in the Holy Scriptures? He (God)
R
1: 3
Who
as / to his human nature was a descendant of David? His
Son / Jesus Christ our Lord
Who was a descendant / of David? His Son / Jesus
Christ our Lord
R
1: 4
Who
through / the Spirit of holiness was declared with power
to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead?
His Son / Jesus Christ our Lord
Who was declared / with power to be the Son of God by his
resurrection from the dead? His Son / Jesus Christ
our Lord
R
1: 5
Through
him / and for his name's sake, we received what? Grace
and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles
to the obedience that comes from faith
We received / grace and apostleship to call people from
among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from
what? Faith
R
1: 6
And you also / are among whom? Those who are called
to belong to Jesus Christ
You also are / among those who are called to belong to whom?
Jesus Christ
R
1: 7
To all / in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints
(be) what? Grace and peace to you from God our Father
and from the Lord Jesus Christ
Grace and / peace (be) to you from whom? God our
Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ
R
1: 8
First, I / thank whom through Jesus Christ for all of you?
My God
Where is your / faith being reported? All over the
world
What is being reported / all over the world? Your
faith
R
1: 9
God, whom / I serve with my whole heart in preaching the
gospel of his Son, is what? My witness how constantly
I remember you in my prayers at all times
Who is my / witness how constantly I remember you in my
prayers at all times? God, whom I serve with my whole
heart in preaching the gospel of his Son
I remember / you in my prayers when? Constantly /
at all times
R
1:10
And I pray / that now at last by God's will the way may
be opened for what? Me to come to you
When may the way / be opened for me to come to you? Now
at last
How may the way / be opened for me to come to you? By
God's will
R
1:11
I long / to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual
gift to make you what? Strong
R
1:12
You and / I may be mutually encouraged by what? Each
other's faith
How may you and / I be mutually encouraged? By each
other's faith
R
1:13
I planned / many times to come to you but have been prevented
from doing so until when? Now
How might I / have a harvest among you? Just as I
have had among the other Gentiles
R
1:14
I am obligated / both to Greeks and whom? Non-Greeks
I am obligated / both to the wise and whom? The foolish
R
1:15
Why am I so / eager to preach the gospel also to you who
are at Rome? That (I am obligated both to Greeks
and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish)
That is why I / am so eager to preach the gospel also to
whom? You who are at Rome
R
1:16
I am not ashamed / of what? The gospel
What is the power / of God for the salvation of everyone
who believes? It (The gospel)
R
1:17
For in the / gospel a righteousness from whom is revealed?
God
Where is a / righteousness from God revealed? In
the gospel
The righteous will / live by what? Faith
Who will live by faith? The righteous
R
1:18
The wrath / of God is being revealed from heaven against
what? All the godlessness and wickedness of men who
suppress the truth by their wickedness
What is being revealed / from heaven against all the godlessness
and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness?
The wrath of God
Who suppress / the truth by their wickedness? Men
R
1:19
What may be known / about God is plain to them, why? Because
God has made it plain to them
Who has made / it plain to them? God
R
1:20
For since / the creation of the world God's invisible qualities
have been seen how? Clearly / Being understood from
what has been made
God's invisible / qualities (are) what? His eternal
power and divine nature
Who are without / excuse? Men
R
1:21
For although / they knew God, they neither glorified him
as God nor gave what to him? Thanks
Who neither / glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him?
They (Men)
What became / futile? Their thinking
What were darkened? Their foolish hearts
R
1:22
Although they claimed / to be wise, they became what? Fools
They claimed / to be what? Wise
They became / fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal
God for what? Images made to look like mortal man
and birds and animals and reptiles
R
1:23
They exchanged the glory / of whom for images made to look
like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles? The
immortal God
R
1:24
Therefore God gave / them over in the sinful desires of
their hearts to what? Sexual impurity for the degrading
of their bodies with one another
R
1:25
They exchanged the truth / of God for what? A lie
They worshiped / and served created things rather than whom?
The Creator
The Creator / is praised when? Forever
R
1:26
Because of this, / God gave them over to what? Shameful
lusts
Even their / women exchanged natural relations for what?
Unnatural ones
R
1:27
The men / also abandoned natural relations with women and
were inflamed with what? Lust for one another
Who received in / themselves the due penalty for their perversion?
Men
R
1:28
Furthermore, / since they did not think it worthwhile to
retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to what?
A
depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done
Who did not think / it worthwhile to retain the knowledge
of God? They (Men)
He gave them / over to a depraved mind, to do what? What
ought not to be done
R
1:29
They have become / filled with every kind of what? Wickedness,
evil, greed and depravity
Who are full of envy, / murder, strife, deceit and malice?
They (Men)
Who are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant
and boastful? They (Men)
R
1:30
Who are slanderers, / God-haters, insolent, arrogant and
boastful? They (Men)
They invent / what? Ways of doing evil
They disobey / whom? Their parents
R
1:31
Who
are senseless, / faithless, heartless, ruthless? They
(Men)
R
1:32
Although
they know / God's righteous decree that those who do such
things deserve death, they not only
continue
to do these very things but also approve of whom? Those
who practice them
Those who do such / things deserve what? Death
Romans
2
R
2: 1
You, therefore, / have no excuse, you who pass judgment
on whom? Someone else
For at / whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning
whom? Yourself
R
2: 2
We know that God's / judgment against those who do such
things is based on what? Truth
God's judgment / against whom is based on truth? Those
who do such things
Whose judgment / against those who do such things is based
on truth? God's
R
2: 3
You, a / mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do what?
The same things
R
2: 4
What do you show / for the riches of his kindness, tolerance
and patience? Contempt
Whose kindness / leads you toward repentance? God's
R
2: 5
But because / of your stubbornness and your unrepentant
heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for what?
The
day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be
revealed
Why are you storing / up wrath against yourself for the
day of God's wrath? Because of your stubbornness
and your unrepentant heart
When will his / righteous judgment be revealed? The
day of God's wrath
R
2: 6
God will give / to each person according to what? What
he has done
Who will give to / each person according to what he has
done? God
R
2: 7
To those / who by persistence in doing good seek glory,
honor and immortality, he will give what? Eternal
life
To whom will he / give eternal life? Those who by
persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality
R
2: 8
But for / those who are self-seeking and who reject the
truth and follow evil, there will be what? Wrath
and anger
There will be wrath / and anger for whom? Those who
are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil
R
2: 9
There will be trouble / and distress for whom? Every
human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the
Gentile
There will be trouble / and distress for every human being
who does what? Evil
R
2:10
There will be glory, / honor and peace for whom? Everyone
who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile
R
2:11
For God does / not show what? Favoritism
Who does not show / favoritism? God
R
2:12
All who / sin apart from the law will also perish apart
from what? The law
Who will also perish / apart from the law? All who
sin apart from the law
Who will be judged by / the law? All who sin under
the law
R
2:13
For it is not / those who hear the law who are righteous
in whose sight? God's
But it is those / who obey the law who will be declared
what? Righteous
R
2:14
Indeed, when / Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by
nature things required by the law, they are what? A
law for themselves
Who do not have the / law? Gentiles
Who are a law / for themselves? They (When Gentiles,
who do not have the law, do by nature things required by
the law)
R
2:15
They show / that the requirements of the law are written
on what? Their hearts
Who show / that the requirements of the law are written
on their hearts? They (Gentiles)
R
2:16
This will / take place on the day when God will judge men's
secrets through whom? Jesus Christ
How will God judge / men's secrets? Through Jesus
Christ, as my gospel declares
R
2:17
You call / yourself what? A Jew
You rely / on the law and brag about what? Your relationship
to God
R
2:18
You are instructed / by what? The law
R
2:19
You are convinced / that you are what? A guide for
the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, an instructor
of the foolish, a teacher of infants
R
2:21
You teach / whom? Others
You preach / against what? Stealing
R
2:22
You say that / people should not commit what? Adultery
What should people / not commit? Adultery
You abhor / what? Idols
R
2:23
How do you dishonor / God? By breaking the law
Whom do you dishonor / by breaking the law? God
R
2:24
God's name / is blasphemed among whom because of you? The
Gentiles
Whose name is / blasphemed among the Gentiles because of
you? God's
R
2:25
Circumcision has / value if you observe what? The
law
What if you break / the law? You have become as though
you had not been circumcised
R
2:26
What if those who are / not circumcised keep the law's requirements?
Will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?
R
2:27
Who will condemn / you who, even though you have the written
code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker? The one
who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law
R
2:28
A man is not / a Jew if he is only one how? Outwardly
Nor is / circumcision merely outward and what? Physical
R
2:29
No, a / man is a Jew if what? He is one inwardly
And circumcision / is circumcision of what? The heart
Romans
3
R
3: 1
What advantage, / then, is there in being a Jew? Much
in every way!
Or what / value is there in circumcision? Much in
every way!
R
3: 2
First / of all, they have been entrusted with what? The
very words of God
They have been / entrusted with the very words of whom?
God
R
3: 3
What if some did / not have faith? Will their lack
of faith nullify God's faithfulness? Not at all!
R
3: 4
Let God / be true, and every man what? A liar
Let whom be / true, and every man a liar? God
When may you / be proved right? When you speak
When may you / prevail? When you judge
R
3: 5
Our unrighteousness / brings out God's righteousness how?
More clearly
What brings out / God's righteousness more clearly? Our
unrighteousness
R
3: 6
What if that / were so? How could God judge the world?
R
3: 7
What might someone / argue? "If my falsehood
enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory,
why am I still condemned as a sinner?"
R
3: 8
What are we being / slanderously reported as saying? "Let
us do evil that good may result"
What is deserved? Their condemnation
R
3: 9
We have already / made the charge that Jews and Gentiles
alike are all under what? Sin
Who alike / are all under sin? Jews and Gentiles
R
3:10
There is no one righteous, / not even who? One
R
3:11
No one seeks / whom? God
R
3:12
All have turned / where? Away
Who have turned / away? All
What have they together / become? Worthless
R
3:13
Their throats / are what? Open graves
Their tongues / practice what? Deceit
The poison / of vipers is on what? Their lips
R
3:14
Their mouths / are full of what? Cursing and bitterness
What are full / of cursing and bitterness? Their
mouths
R
3:15
Their feet / are swift to shed what? Blood
What are swift / to shed blood? Their feet
R
3:16
Ruin / and misery mark what? Their ways
What mark / their ways? Ruin and misery
R
3:17
What do they / not know? The way of peace
What way do / they not know? The way of peace
R
3:18
There is no fear / of whom before their eyes? God
Where is there no fear / of God? Before their eyes
R
3:19
Now we know / that whatever the law says, it says to whom?
Those who are under the law
What may be silenced? Every mouth
Who may be held / accountable to God? The whole world
R
3:20
Therefore no / one will be declared righteous in his sight
by observing what? The law
How will no / one be declared righteous in his sight? By
observing the law
Rather, through / the law we become conscious of what? Sin
R
3:21
But now a / righteousness from God, apart from what, has
been made known? Law
R
3:22
This righteousness / from God comes through faith in Jesus
Christ to whom? All who believe
What comes through / faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe?
This righteousness from God
R
3:23
For all / have sinned and fall short of what? The
glory of God
All have sinned / and fall short of the glory of whom? God
Who have sinned / and fall short of the glory of God? All
R
3:24
Who are justified / freely by his grace through the redemption
that came by Christ Jesus? All
How are all justified / freely? By his grace through
the redemption that came by Christ Jesus
R
3:25
God presented / him as a sacrifice of atonement, through
what? Faith in his blood
Who presented / him as a sacrifice of atonement, through
faith in his blood? God
In his / forbearance he had left what unpunished? The
sins committed beforehand
Who had left the / sins committed beforehand unpunished?
He (God)
R
3:26
He did it / to demonstrate his justice at what time? The
present time
Who did it / to demonstrate his justice at the present time?
He (God)
R
3:27
Where, then, / is boasting? It is excluded
What is excluded? It (Boasting)
R
3:28
For we maintain / what? That a man is justified by
faith apart from observing the law
A man is justified / by faith apart from observing what?
The law
R
3:29
Is God the / God of Jews only? Is he not the God
of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too
Is he / not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles
too
R
3:30
There is only one God, / who will justify the circumcised
by faith and the uncircumcised how? Through that
same faith
Who will justify / the circumcised by faith? Only
one God
R
3:31
Do we, / then, nullify the law by this faith? Not
at all!
Rather, we / uphold what? The law
Romans
4
R
4: 1
Who (is) our forefather? Abraham
R
4: 2
If, in / fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something
to boast about-but not before whom? God
What if, in / fact, Abraham was justified by works? He
had something to boast about-but not before God
R
4: 3
Abraham believed God, / and it was credited to him as what?
Righteousness
Who believed God, / and it was credited to him as righteousness?
Abraham
R
4: 4
Now when / a man works, his wages are not credited to him
as what? A gift
When are his / wages not credited to him as a gift, but
as an obligation? When a man works
What are not credited / to him as a gift, but as an obligation
when a man works? His wages
R
4: 5
However, / to the man who does not work but trusts God who
justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as what? Righteousness
To whom is his / faith credited as righteousness? The
man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked
God justifies / whom? The wicked
R
4: 6
David says the / same thing when he speaks of the blessedness
of whom? The man to whom God credits righteousness
apart from works
Who speaks of / the blessedness of the man to whom God credits
righteousness apart from works? He (David)
R
4: 7
Blessed are / they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose
sins are what? Covered
What are they whose / transgressions are forgiven? Blessed
R
4: 8
Blessed is / the man whose sin the Lord will never count
how? Against him
R
4: 9
We have been saying / that Abraham's faith was credited
to him as what? Righteousness
What have we been / saying? That Abraham's faith
was credited to him as righteousness
R
4:10
Under / what circumstances was it credited? Was it
after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but
before!
Was / it after he was circumcised, or before? It
was not after, but before!
R
4:11
And he received / the sign of what? Circumcision
What (was) a / seal of the righteousness that he had by
faith while he was still uncircumcised? The sign
of circumcision
Why is he the father / of all who believe but have not been
circumcised? In order that righteousness might be
credited to them
R
4:12
And he is / also the father of the circumcised who not only
are circumcised but who also walk in what footsteps? The
footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before
he was circumcised
R
4:13
It
was not through / law that Abraham and his offspring received
what promise? The promise that he would be heir of the
world
Who received the promise / that he would be heir of the
world? Abraham and his offspring
R
4:14
For if those / who live by law are heirs, faith has no value
and the promise is what? Worthless
What if those who live / by law are heirs? Faith
has no value and the promise is worthless
If those / who live by law are heirs, faith has no value
and the promise is worthless, why? Because law brings
wrath
R
4:15
Law / brings what? Wrath
What brings wrath? Law
Where is there no transgression? Where there is no
law
R
4:16
Therefore, the / promise comes by faith, why? So that
it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's
offspring-not only to those who are of the law but also
to those who are of the faith of Abraham
What may be by / grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's
offspring? It (The promise)
R
4:17
I have made you / a father of whom? Many nations
Who is our father / in the sight of God, in whom he believed?
He (Abraham)
Who gives life / to the dead and calls things that are not
as though they were? God
R
4:18
Against all / hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became
the father of whom? Many nations
Who became the / father of many nations? Abraham
So shall / whose offspring be? Your (Abraham)
R
4:19
Without weakening / in his faith, he faced what? The
fact that his body was as good as dead-since he was about
a hundred years old-and that Sarah's womb was also dead
Why was his / body as good as dead? Since he was
about a hundred years old
Whose womb / was also dead? Sarah's
R
4:20
Yet he / did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise
of whom? God
Who did not waver / through unbelief regarding the promise
of God? He (Abraham)
Who was strengthened / in his faith and gave glory to God?
He (Abraham)
R
4:21
God had power / to do what? What he had promised
R
4:22
This is why it / was credited to him as what? Righteousness
How was it credited / to him? As righteousness
R
4:23
The words / "it was credited to him" were written
not for him alone, but also for whom? Us, to whom
God will credit righteousness-for us who believe in him
who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead
What were written / not for him alone? The words
"it was credited to him"
R
4:24
Who will credit / righteousness to us? God
Who raised Jesus our / Lord from the dead? Him (God)
R
4:25
He was delivered / over to death for our sins and was raised
to life for what? Our justification
Why was he / delivered over to death? For our sins
Why was he / raised to life? For our justification
Romans
5
R
5: 1
Therefore, since / we have been justified through faith,
we have what? Peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ
We have been justified / through what? Faith
We have peace / with God through whom? Our Lord Jesus
Christ
R
5: 2
Through whom have we gained / access by faith into this
grace in which we now stand? Our Lord Jesus Christ
What access / have we gained through our Lord Jesus Christ?
Access by faith into this grace in which we now stand
We rejoice / in the hope of the glory of whom? God
R
5: 3
We also rejoice in our / sufferings, why? Because
we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance,
character; and character, hope
What produces perseverance? Suffering
R
5: 4
Perseverance produces / what? Character
What produces character? Perseverance
What produces hope? Character
R
5: 5
And hope / does not disappoint us, because God has poured
out his love into our hearts by whom? The Holy Spirit,
whom he has given us
Why does hope / not disappoint us? Because God has
poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit,
whom he has given us
How has God / poured out his love into our hearts? By
the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us
Who has poured / out his love into our hearts by the Holy
Spirit, whom he has given us? God
R
5: 6
You see, at / just the right time, when we were still powerless,
Christ died for whom? The ungodly
Christ died for the / ungodly when? At just the right
time, when we were still powerless
Who died for the / ungodly? Christ
R
5: 7
Very / rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though
for whom might someone possibly dare to die? A good
man
Very / rarely will anyone die for whom? A righteous
man
Though for / a good man someone might possibly dare what?
To die
For whom might / someone possibly dare to die? A
good man
R
5: 8
But God / demonstrates his own love for us in what? This:
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us
Who demonstrates / his own love for us? God
Christ died for us / when? While we were still sinners
Who died for us / while we were still sinners? Christ
R
5: 9
We have now / been justified by what? His blood
From whose wrath / shall we be saved through him? God's
R
5:10
What if, when / we were God's enemies, we were reconciled
to him through the death of his Son? How much more,
having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
When we were God's / enemies, we were reconciled to him
how? Through the death of his Son
When were we / reconciled to him through the death of his
Son? When we were God's enemies
R
5:11
Not only is / this so, but we also rejoice in God through
whom? Our Lord Jesus Christ
R
5:12
Sin entered / the world through one man, and death through
what? Sin
What entered / the world through one man? Sin
What entered / the world through sin? Death
In this way / death came to all men, why? Because
all sinned
R
5:13
For before / the law was given, sin was in what? The
world
When
was sin / in the world? Before the law was given
When is sin / not taken into account? When there
is no law
R
5:14
Nevertheless, / death reigned from the time of Adam to the
time of whom? Moses
What reigned from / the time of Adam to the time of Moses?
Death
Who was a pattern / of the one to come? Adam
R
5:15
But the gift is / not like what? The trespass
Why is the gift not / like the trespass? For if the
many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more
did God's grace and the gift that came by
the
grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
The many died / by the trespass of whom? The one
man
Who died by / the trespass of the one man? The many
R
5:16
Again, the / gift of God is not like the result of what?
The one man's sin
The judgment / followed one sin and brought what? Condemnation
What followed / one sin and brought condemnation? The
judgment
What followed / many trespasses and brought justification?
The gift
R
5:17
What if, by / the trespass of the one man, death reigned
through that one man? How much more will those who
receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift
of righteousness reign
in
life through the one man, Jesus Christ
R
5:18
Consequently, just / as the result of one trespass was condemnation
for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness
was what? Justification that brings life for all men
What was the / result of one trespass? Condemnation
for all men
What was the / result of one act of righteousness? Justification
that brings life for all men
What brings life / for all men? Justification
R
5:19
For just / as through the disobedience of the one man the
many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of
the one man the many will be made what? Righteous
How were the many / made sinners? Through the disobedience
of the one man
So also through / the obedience of the one man the many
will be made what? Righteous
How will the many / be made righteous? Through the
obedience of the one man
R
5:20
The law was / added so that what might increase? The
trespass
Why was the law / added? So that the trespass might
increase
What was added / so that the trespass might increase? The
law
But where / sin increased, grace increased how? All
the more
What increased / all the more? Grace
R
5:21
Just as sin / reigned in death, so also grace might reign
through what? Righteousness
What reigned in / death? Sin
Why might grace / reign through righteousness? To
bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord