Daily Devotion with Greg Laurie “Are You
A Lukewarm Person?” Saturday, 30 November 2013
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Have you ever eaten
something that turned your stomach? This is exactly how Jesus feels about
lukewarm people.
Jesus uses this phrase in Revelation 3 when He says to the church of Laodicea, "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth" (Revelation 3:15–16NKJV). Some churches make the Lord weep; others make Him angry. The Laodicean Church made him sick.
What does this mean for us? Keep in mind that these words are for believers today. So the question is, are you spiritually hot, cold, or lukewarm? Don't answer that too quickly, because the lukewarm person is often the last to know.
Why is being lukewarm such an issue? G. Campbell Morgan wrote "There is more hope for the man outside the church in all his coldness than for the man within the church who is near enough its warmth to appreciate it and far enough from its burning heat to be useless to God and man. There is a greater chance for the nonbeliever who has NOT heard the gospel than the man who has become an evangelized nonbeliever."
Let's make sure that we are not lukewarm spiritually.
Jesus uses this phrase in Revelation 3 when He says to the church of Laodicea, "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth" (Revelation 3:15–16NKJV). Some churches make the Lord weep; others make Him angry. The Laodicean Church made him sick.
What does this mean for us? Keep in mind that these words are for believers today. So the question is, are you spiritually hot, cold, or lukewarm? Don't answer that too quickly, because the lukewarm person is often the last to know.
Why is being lukewarm such an issue? G. Campbell Morgan wrote "There is more hope for the man outside the church in all his coldness than for the man within the church who is near enough its warmth to appreciate it and far enough from its burning heat to be useless to God and man. There is a greater chance for the nonbeliever who has NOT heard the gospel than the man who has become an evangelized nonbeliever."
Let's make sure that we are not lukewarm spiritually.
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Romans Salutation
1: Paul, a servant[a] of Jesus Christ,
called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which he promised
beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, 3 the gospel concerning
his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh 4 and was declared
to be Son of God with power according to the spirit[b] of holiness by
resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, 5 through whom we have
received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all
the Gentiles for the sake of his name, 6 including yourselves who are called to
belong to Jesus Christ,
7 To all God’s beloved in Rome, who are
called to be saints:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Prayer of Thanksgiving
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus
Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the world. 9
For God, whom I serve with my spirit by announcing the gospel[c] of his Son, is
my witness that without ceasing I remember you always in my prayers, 10 asking
that by God’s will I may somehow at last succeed in coming to you. 11 For I am
longing to see you so that I may share with you some spiritual gift to
strengthen you— 12 or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each
other’s faith, both yours and mine. 13 I want you to know, brothers and
sisters,[d] 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 I have among the
rest of the Gentiles. 14 I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both
to the wise and to the foolish 15 —hence my eagerness to proclaim the gospel to
you also who are in Rome.
The Power of the Gospel
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it
is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first
and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed
through faith for faith; as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live
by faith.”[e]
The Guilt of Humankind
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of those who by their wickedness
suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them,
because God has shown it to them. 20 Ever since the creation of the world his
eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been
understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse;
21 for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to
him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were
darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools; 23 and they exchanged the
glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds
or four-footed animals or reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the
lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among
themselves, 25 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.
26 For this reason God gave them up to
degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, 27
and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women,
were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with
men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to
acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should
not be done. 29 They were filled with every kind of wickedness, evil,
covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they
are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters,[f] insolent, haughty, boastful,
inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless,
ruthless. 32 They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things
deserve to die—yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice
them.
The Righteous Judgment of God
2: Therefore you have no excuse, whoever
you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn
yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things. 2 You say,[g]
“We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is in accordance with
truth.” 3 Do you imagine, whoever you are, that when you judge those who do
such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or
do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you
not realize that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But by
your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day
of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. 6 For he will repay
according to each one’s deeds: 7 to those who by patiently doing good seek for
glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 while for those
who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but wickedness, there will be
wrath and fury. 9 There will be anguish and distress for everyone who does
evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace for
everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. 11 For God shows no
partiality.
12 All who have sinned apart from the law
will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will
be judged by the law. 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous
in God’s sight, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14 When
Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires,
these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves. 15 They show that
what the law requires is written on their hearts, to which their own conscience
also bears witness; and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps
excuse them 16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God, through Jesus
Christ, will judge the secret thoughts of all.
The Jews and the Law
17 But if you call yourself a Jew and
rely on the law and boast of your relation to God 18 and know his will and
determine what is best because you are instructed in the law, 19 and if you are
sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment
of knowledge and truth, 21 you, then, that teach others, will you not teach
yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You that forbid
adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23
You that boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 24 For, as
it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of
you.”
25 Circumcision indeed is of value if you
obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 So, if those who are uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will
not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? 27 Then those who are
physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you that have the
written code and circumcision but break the law. 28 For a person is not a Jew
who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and physical.
29 Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a
matter of the heart—it is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives
praise not from others but from God.
3: Then what advantage has the Jew? Or
what is the value of circumcision? 2 Much, in every way. For in the first place
the Jews[h] were entrusted with the oracles of God. 3 What if some were
unfaithful? Will their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? 4 By no
means! Although everyone is a liar, let God be proved true, as it is written,
“So that you may be justified in your
words,
and prevail in your judging.”[i]
5 But if our injustice serves to confirm
the justice of God, what should we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on
us? (I speak in a human way.) 6 By no means! For then how could God judge the
world? 7 But if through my falsehood God’s truthfulness abounds to his glory,
why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8 And why not say (as some people
slander us by saying that we say), “Let us do evil so that good may come”? Their
condemnation is deserved!
None Is Righteous
9 What then? Are we any better off?[j]
No, not at all; for we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are
under the power of sin, 10 as it is written:
“There is no one who is righteous, not
even one;
11
there is no one who has understanding,
there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned aside, together they
have become worthless;
there is no one who shows kindness,
there is not even one.”
13 “Their throats are opened graves;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of vipers is under their
lips.”
14
“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16
ruin and misery are in their paths,
17 and the way of peace they have not
known.”
18
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatever the law
says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be
silenced, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For “no human
being will be justified in his sight” by deeds prescribed by the law, for
through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Righteousness through Faith
21 But now, apart from law, the
righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law and the
prophets, 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ[k] for all
who believe. For there is no distinction, 23 since all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God; 24 they are now justified by his grace as a gift,
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a
sacrifice of atonement[l] by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to
show his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over
the sins previously committed; 26 it was to prove at the present time that he
himself is righteous and that he justifies the one who has faith in Jesus.[m]
27 Then what becomes of boasting? It is
excluded. By what law? By that of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 For we
hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the
law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also?
Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised
on the ground of faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. 31 Do we
then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold
the law.
The Example of Abraham
4: What then are we to say was gained
by[n] Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was
justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For
what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him
as righteousness.” 4 Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but
as something due. 5 But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the
ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness. 6 So also David speaks of the
blessedness of those to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose iniquities are
forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
8 blessed is the one against whom the
Lord will not reckon sin.”
9 Is this blessedness, then, pronounced
only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We say, “Faith was
reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.” 10 How then was it reckoned to him? Was
it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was
circumcised. 11 He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the
righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The
purpose was to make him the ancestor of all who believe without being
circumcised and who thus have righteousness reckoned to them, 12 and likewise
the ancestor of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but who also
follow the example of the faith that our ancestor Abraham had before he was
circumcised.
God’s Promise Realized through Faith
13 For the promise that he would inherit the
world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through
the righteousness of faith. 14 If it is the adherents of the law who are to be
the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 15 For the law brings wrath;
but where there is no law, neither is there violation.
16 For this reason it depends on faith,
in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his
descendants, not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share
the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, 17 as it is written,
“I have made you the father of many nations”)—in the presence of the God in
whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the
things that do not exist. 18 Hoping against hope, he believed that he would
become “the father of many nations,” according to what was said, “So numerous
shall your descendants be.” 19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered
his own body, which was already[o] as good as dead (for he was about a hundred
years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. 20 No
distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in
his faith as he gave glory to God, 21 being fully convinced that God was able
to do what he had promised. 22 Therefore his faith[p] “was reckoned to him as
righteousness.” 23 Now the words, “it was reckoned to him,” were written not
for his sake alone, 24 but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe
in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25 who was handed over to death
for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.
Results of Justification
5: Therefore, since we are justified by
faith, we[q] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom
we have obtained access[r] to this grace in which we stand; and we[s] boast in
our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we[t] also boast
in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance
produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not disappoint
us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit
that has been given to us.
6 For while we were still weak, at the
right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a
righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare
to die. 8 But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners
Christ died for us. 9 Much more surely then, now that we have been justified by
his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God.[u] 10 For if
while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son,
much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life. 11 But
more than that, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through
whom we have now received reconciliation.
Adam and Christ
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the
world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all
because all have sinned— 13 sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin
is not reckoned when there is no law. 14 Yet death exercised dominion from Adam
to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam,
who is a type of the one who was to come.
15 But the free gift is not like the
trespass. For if the many died through the one man’s trespass, much more surely
have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of the one man, Jesus
Christ, abounded for the many. 16 And the free gift is not like the effect of
the one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought
condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brings justification.
17 If, because of the one man’s trespass, death exercised dominion through that
one, much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the
free gift of righteousness exercise dominion in life through the one man, Jesus
Christ.
18 Therefore just as one man’s trespass
led to condemnation for all, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to justification
and life for all. 19 For just as by the one man’s disobedience the many were
made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. 20
But law came in, with the result that the trespass multiplied; but where sin
increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, just as sin exercised
dominion in death, so grace might also exercise dominion through
justification[v] leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Dying and Rising with Christ
6: What then are we to say? Should we
continue in sin in order that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who
died to sin go on living in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been
baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we have
been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised
from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of
life.
5 For if we have been united with him in
a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like
his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin
might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For whoever
has died is freed from sin. 8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that
we will also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead,
will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 The death he
died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 So
you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore, do not let sin exercise
dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. 13 No longer
present your members to sin as instruments[w] of wickedness, but present
yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and
present your members to God as instruments[x] of righteousness. 14 For sin will
have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Slaves of Righteousness
15 What then? Should we sin because we
are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you
present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom
you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to
righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of
sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you
were entrusted, 18 and that you, having been set free from sin, have become
slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms because of your
natural limitations.[y] For just as you once presented your members as slaves
to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as
slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
20 When you were slaves of sin, you were
free in regard to righteousness. 21 So what advantage did you then get from the
things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. 22 But
now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you
get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is
death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
An Analogy from Marriage
7: Do you not know, brothers and sisters[z]—for
I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person
only during that person’s lifetime? 2 Thus a married woman is bound by the law
to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is discharged
from the law concerning the husband. 3 Accordingly, she will be called an
adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her
husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man, she is
not an adulteress.
4 In the same way, my friends,[aa] you
have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to
another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear
fruit for God. 5 While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused
by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we
are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are
slaves not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.
The Law and Sin
7: What then should we say? That the law
is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I would not have
known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said,
“You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment,
produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead. 9 I
was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived
10 and I died, and the very commandment that promised life proved to be death
to me. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and
through it killed me. 12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and
just and good.
13 Did what is good, then, bring death to
me? By no means! It was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order
that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become
sinful beyond measure.
The Inner Conflict
14 For we know that the law is spiritual;
but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.[ab] 15 I do not understand
my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16
Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. 17 But in fact it
is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing
good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I
cannot do it. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is
what I do. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but
sin that dwells within me.
21 So I find it to be a law that when I
want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law
of God in my inmost self, 23 but I see in my members another law at war with
the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my
members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, with my mind I am a slave to the
law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin.
Life in the Spirit
8: There is therefore now no condemnation
for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit[ac] of life in
Christ Jesus has set you[ad] free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For God
has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own
Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin,[ae] he condemned sin
in the flesh, 4 so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in
us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.[af] 5 For
those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the
flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit[ag] set their minds on the
things of the Spirit.[ah] 6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set
the mind on the Spirit[ai] is life and peace. 7 For this reason the mind that
is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed
it cannot, 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh; you are
in the Spirit,[aj] since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not
have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you,
though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit[ak] is life because of
righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in
you, he who raised Christ[al] from the dead will give life to your mortal
bodies also through[am] his Spirit that dwells in you.
12 So then, brothers and sisters,[an] we
are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— 13 for if you
live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to
death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the
Spirit of God are children of God. 15 For you did not receive a spirit of
slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption.
When we cry, “Abba![ao] Father!” 16 it is that very Spirit bearing witness[ap]
with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs,
heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ—if, in fact, we suffer with him so
that we may also be glorified with him.
Future Glory
18 I consider that the sufferings of this
present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.
19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children
of God; 20 for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but
by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself
will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the
glory of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been
groaning in labor pains until now; 23 and not only the creation, but we
ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we
wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in[aq] hope we were
saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes[ar] for what is seen?
25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our
weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit
intercedes[as] with sighs too deep for words. 27 And God,[at] who searches the
heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit[au] intercedes
for the saints according to the will of God.[av]
28 We know that all things work together
for good[aw] for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.
29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image
of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.[ax]
30 And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he
also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.
God’s Love in Christ Jesus
31 What then are we to say about these
things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not withhold his own
Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us
everything else? 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God
who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was
raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.[ay] 35
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all
day long;
we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more
than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Footnotes:
Romans 1:1 Gk slave
Romans 1:4 Or Spirit
Romans 1:9 Gk my spirit in the gospel
Romans 1:13 Gk brothers
Romans 1:17 Or The one who is righteous
through faith will live
Romans 1:30 Or God-hated
Romans 2:2 Gk lacks You say
Romans 3:2 Gk they
Romans 3:4 Gk when you are being judged
Romans 3:9 Or at any disadvantage?
Romans 3:22 Or through the faith of Jesus
Christ
Romans 3:25 Or a place of atonement
Romans 3:26 Or who has the faith of Jesus
Romans 4:1 Other ancient authorities read
say about
Romans 4:19 Other ancient authorities
lack already
Romans 4:22 Gk Therefore it
Romans 5:1 Other ancient authorities read
let us
Romans 5:2 Other ancient authorities add
by faith
Romans 5:2 Or let us
Romans 5:3 Or let us
Romans 5:9 Gk the wrath
Romans 5:21 Or righteousness
Romans 6:13 Or weapons
Romans 6:13 Or weapons
Romans 6:19 Gk the weakness of your flesh
Romans 7:1 Gk brothers
Romans 7:4 Gk brothers
Romans 7:14 Gk sold under sin
Romans 8:2 Or spirit
Romans 8:2 Here the Greek word you is
singular number; other ancient authorities read me or us
Romans 8:3 Or and as a sin offering
Romans 8:4 Or spirit
Romans 8:5 Or spirit
Romans 8:5 Or spirit
Romans 8:6 Or spirit
Romans 8:9 Or spirit
Romans 8:10 Or spirit
Romans 8:11 Other ancient authorities
read the Christ or Christ Jesus or Jesus Christ
Romans 8:11 Other ancient authorities
read on account of
Romans 8:12 Gk brothers
Romans 8:15 Aramaic for Father
Romans 8:16 Or 15 a spirit of adoption,
by which we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit itself bears witness
Romans 8:24 Or by
Romans 8:24 Other ancient authorities
read awaits
Romans 8:26 Other ancient authorities add
for us
Romans 8:27 Gk the one
Romans 8:27 Gk he or it
Romans 8:27 Gk according to God
Romans 8:28 Other ancient authorities
read God makes all things work together for good, or in all things God works
for good
Romans 8:29 Gk among many brothers
Romans 8:34 Or Is it Christ Jesus . . .
for us?(NRSV)
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