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1:1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, having been set apart into the gospel of God, 2 which He promised out from Himself, through His prophets in the devoted Scriptures, 3 concerning His Son, who came out from the sperm of David according to flesh, • 4 having been determined a Son of God inside of power, down to the finest details of the Spirit of Devotion by the resurrection out from the dead, Jesus Christ, our Lord; 5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship into submission to the word of faith among all the ethnic families for the sake of His name, 6 among whom also you are called of Jesus Christ.

7 To all those in Rome who are beloved of God, called as devoted ones: grace to you and peace, from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ.

8 To start, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed in the whole world. 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve inside my spirit inside the gospel of His Son, how unceasingly I mention you always in my prayers, 10 asking if perhaps now, at last, I will have a prosperous journey inside God’s desire, to come to you. 11 For I long to see you, that I might impart some spiritual gift to you, to strengthen you. 12 And more than that, that I might be encouraged together among you, through your reciprocal faith, both of you and of me.

13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I purposed many times to come to you, even though I was hindered for now, that I might have fruit also among you, as I have among other ethnic families. 14 As I am a debtor to both Greeks and barbarians, to the wise and the foolish, 15 so I am ready also to preach the gospel to you in Rome. • 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God carrying into salvation all who are actively believing [a], Judeans first, and also Greeks. • 17 For inside of the gospel the just approval of God is unveiled out from faith into faith; as it has been written, “Those declared justly innocent will live out from faith” (Habakkuk 2:4).

18 Indeed, the set opposition of God is unveiled (b) from heaven upon all cursing of God and hurting of one another by people who suppress the truth inside of their injustice. 19 Because the knowing of God is made visible among them, for God has made it visible to them. • 20 Indeed, His invisible qualities of unceasing power and divine personalness are clearly perceived from the creation of the cosmos, being understood by the things He has made, so that they are without excuse. • 21 For having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were they thankful, but they became pointless, even psychotic in their thinking [c] and their incoherent heart was darkened, misunderstanding everything. 22 Asserting themselves to be wise, they became foolish. 23 And they bartered away the glory of the incorruptible God in order to gain the likeness and image of dying man, and birds, four-footed animals, and even creeping things [d].

24 Therefore, God gave them over into impurity and uncleanness inside the desires of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for nonsense and lies, and they worshipped and served the created in the very presence of the Creator, who is blessed and spoken well of into the ages. Let it be so; it is so. 26 For this reason, God gave them over into passions of disgrace against their women, exchanging the natural sexual relations for something different. 27 In the same way also the men, having left natural sexual relations with women, were inflamed in their lusts for one another – males with males – producing indecency, and thus received inside themselves the consequence which fitted their delusion.

28 And, just as they did not approve having God in their acknowledgement, so God gave them over into an unapproved mind, to do things that are not proper. 29 They became filled with all injustice, wickedness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness, slanderers, 30 defamers, God-haters, hubristic, arrogant, boastful; inventers of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, untrustworthy, heartless, unmerciful, 32 who, having acknowledged the right of God to judge all, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only practice them, but also approve of others who are doing the same.

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Gospel Comments	Notes
• Definition: God proves Jesus as His own Son by the resurrection. First Jesus bore the same flesh as David, the man who ran into God, regardless. He was raised into life by the power of the Spirit and not of Himself. And in being raised, He came out from the dead carrying inside Himself all whom the Father had given Him. These qualities pervade the letter to the Romans. • Definition: The Gospel is defined specifically as the power of God, a power that carries us into Salvation as God means Salvation, we who actively believe that God speaks the Truth. • Ruling Verse 6: “Carried into” is the action of Jesus as the Way, something that has already happened. The Salvation into which Jesus has carried us is the Most Devoted Place, that is, inside of all that is God, who shares our lives with us. • Ruling Verse 7: Faith is that quality that looks straight at every Gospel Word and says, “Let it be to me according to what You mean by what You say.” Faith proclaims that we are inside of God’s Salvation and that God is inside of us. We are part of Christ as we are confident that we are part of Christ. • Life: Life is knowing God (see John 17:3). Life begins with perceiving God always inside of all, not as “pantheism,” but as a Personal Father always towards us. • Definition: To look straight at God and to refuse to believe Him is to “not glorify God.” This refusal leads immediately to the next, refusing to give thanks, hating the way God made us and the circumstances of our lives. Immediately our thinking and our hearts are at war against God. This is the sin of mankind.	a. This is an accurate rendering of Paul’s definition of “the Gospel.” We let this definition shape our thinking towards everything. b. A false story of self. c. Adam and Eve were the likeness and image of God, the visible expression of His glory. That is what a human is. d. The serpent pretending to be the image of God, the core belief that the devil spoke the truth in the garden.

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• Definition: God proves Jesus as His own Son by the resurrection. First Jesus bore the same flesh as David, the man who ran into God, regardless. He was raised into life by the power of the Spirit and not of Himself. And in being raised, He came out from the dead carrying inside Himself all whom the Father had given Him. These qualities pervade the letter to the Romans.

• Definition: The Gospel is defined specifically as the power of God, a power that carries us into Salvation as God means Salvation, we who actively believe that God speaks the Truth.

• Ruling Verse 6: “Carried into” is the action of Jesus as the Way, something that has already happened. The Salvation into which Jesus has carried us is the Most Devoted Place, that is, inside of all that is God, who shares our lives with us.

• Ruling Verse 7: Faith is that quality that looks straight at every Gospel Word and says, “Let it be to me according to what You mean by what You say.” Faith proclaims that we are inside of God’s Salvation and that God is inside of us. We are part of Christ as we are confident that we are part of Christ.

• Life: Life is knowing God (see John 17:3). Life begins with perceiving God always inside of all, not as “pantheism,” but as a Personal Father always towards us.

• Definition: To look straight at God and to refuse to believe Him is to “not glorify God.” This refusal leads immediately to the next, refusing to give thanks, hating the way God made us and the circumstances of our lives. Immediately our thinking and our hearts are at war against God. This is the sin of mankind.

a. This is an accurate rendering of Paul’s definition of “the Gospel.” We let this definition shape our thinking towards everything.

b. A false story of self.

c. Adam and Eve were the likeness and image of God, the visible expression of His glory. That is what a human is.

d. The serpent pretending to be the image of God, the core belief that the devil spoke the truth in the garden.

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