02 Rom 1:11-30

Question 9

Romans 1:10

Answer 9

always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God’s will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

Question 10

Romans 1:11

Answer 10

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—

Question 11

Romans 1:12

Answer 11

that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.

Question 12

Romans 1:13

Answer 12

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.

Question 13

Romans 1:14

Answer 13

I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Question 14

Romans 1:15

Answer 14

So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

Question 15

Romans 1:16

Answer 15

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Question 16

Romans 1:17

Answer 16

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Question 17

Romans 1:18

Answer 17

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

Question 18

Romans 1:19

Answer 18

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

Question 19

Romans 1:20

Answer 19

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Question 20

Romans 1:21

Answer 20

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Question 21

Romans 1:22

Answer 21

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Question 22

Romans 1:23

Answer 22

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Question 23

Romans 1:24

Answer 23

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Question 24

Romans 1:25

Answer 24

because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

Question 25

Romans 1:26

Answer 25

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;

Question 26

Romans 1:27

Answer 26

and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Question 27

Romans 1:28

Answer 27

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

Question 28

Romans 1:29

Answer 28

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,

Question 29

Romans 1:30

Answer 29

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,