Chapter 1

Question 0

Romans 1:2

Answer 0

The gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures

Question 1

Romans 1:1

Answer 1

Paul a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God-

Question 2

Romans 1:3

Answer 2

Regarding his son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David,

Question 3

Romans 1:4

Answer 3

And who through the spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Question 4

Romans 1:5

Answer 4

Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake.

Question 5

Romans 1:6

Answer 5

And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.

Question 6

Romans 1:7

Answer 6

To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people: Grace and peace to you from God our father and from The Lord Jesus Christ.

Question 7

Romans 1:8

Answer 7

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.

Question 8

Romans 1:9

Answer 8

God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you

Question 9

Romans 1:10

Answer 9

in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you.

Question 10

Romans 1:11

Answer 10

I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong—

Question 11

Romans 1:12

Answer 11

that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.

Question 12

Romans 1:13

Answer 12

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

Question 13

Romans 1:14

Answer 13

I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.

Question 14

Romans 1:15

Answer 14

That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

Question 15

Romans 1:16

Answer 15

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.

Question 16

Romans 1:17

Answer 16

For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

Question 17

Romans 1:18

Answer 17

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,

Question 18

Romans 1:19

Answer 18

since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

Question 19

Romans 1:20

Answer 19

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

Question 20

Romans 1:21

Answer 20

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Question 21

Romans 1:22

Answer 21

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

Question 22

Romans 1:23

Answer 22

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

Question 23

Romans 1:24

Answer 23

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

Question 24

Romans 1:25

Answer 24

They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

Question 25

Romans 1:26

Answer 25

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

Question 26

Romans 1:27

Answer 26

In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Question 27

Romans 1:28

Answer 27

Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

Question 28

Romans 1:29

Answer 28

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,

Question 29

Romans 1:30

Answer 29

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

Question 30

Romans 1:31

Answer 30

they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.

Question 31

Romans 1:32

Answer 31

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 those who practice them.