The Letters
- When
- c. AD 57
- Written by
- Paul
- Chapters
- 16
The big idea
Paul’s fullest statement of the gospel: all have sinned, all are justified freely by grace through faith in Christ, made alive by the Spirit, and called to a life of love.
Themes
- Sin and grace
- Life in the Spirit
- Justification
- God’s plan for Israel and the nations
Memory verse
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Key passages
- 1:16–17The power of God
- 3:21–26Justified freely
- 5:1–11Peace with God
- 8No condemnation
- 12:1–2A living sacrifice
Links to other Scripture
- Genesis 15:6Abraham’s faith
- Habakkuk 2:4The just shall live by faith
- Psalm 14There is none who does good
- Galatians 3The promise to Abraham
Read the text
Choose a chapter to read it here in the King James Version. Verses with a dotted underline have notes from Bible scholars. Tap one to open them.
Notes from
Chapters
King James text and the commentaries of Henry, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Gill, Clarke, Calvin, and Keil and Delitzsch are in the public domain. Tyndale Open Study Notes are used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, from tyndaleopenresources.com. Texts were reformatted for this site.
Journal prompts
Keep a journal or notebook for your study. Write your answers there, in your own words.
- Where do you see Christ in this book?
- Paul says there is now no condemnation. Where do you still carry condemnation God has already lifted?
- “All things work together for good to them that love God.” What are you hoping that verse is true about?
- Offer your body as a living sacrifice. What is one concrete way to do that today?
- In one sentence, this book is about…