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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