Study Questions for Paul's letter to the Romans

Read each chapter of Romans and then answer the questions about it. Submit your answers in the space below. Leave a space between the answers for each chapter.
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  1. Read each chapter of Romans and then answer the questions about it. Submit your answers in the space below. Leave a space between the answers for each chapter.
    1. What does St. Paul mean by the “obedience of faith”? How has God made known his “invisible nature”? Why does St. Paul condemn homosexuality and lesbianism?

    2. The Jews received the law through Moses; how did the Gentiles receive the same law?

    3. Why is Mary not included among those whom Paul mentions when he says “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”?

    4. Was Abraham justified (made right with God) by his circumcision or by his faith?

    5. How has God shown his love for us sinners? How did death and sin come into the world? How was the transgression of Adam different from the transgression of those who came after him?

    6. Into whose death were we baptized when we received baptism as babies? How is our baptism connected to our resurrection? What is the “free gift of God” and the “wages of sin”?

    7. How does Paul use the marriage law to illustrate our freedom from bondage to the Mosaic law? What purpose does the law serve? What purpose does the law serve? What law does Paul discover in “his members” which makes him wretched?

    8. On what that leads to death may we set our minds? On what that leads to life? How should we view the “sufferings of this present time”? For whom does all “creation wait with eager longing”? Who can separate us from the love of Christ?

    9. What eight privileges belong the Paul’s kinsmen, the Israelites? Has God predestined some people to be “vessels of wrath”? Is God unjust?

    10. Is a person saved who only “confesses with his lips” that Jesus is Lord?

    11. Has God rejected his own people the Jews? Explain the example of the olive tree which Paul uses to illustrate God’s plan for the salvation of both Jew and Gentile.

    12. What is the “spiritual worship” we must offer to God? Does each Christian have a gift from God? Do all have the same gifts? What should we do to those who persecute us?

    13. Who or what is the source of civil authority? Must we pay our taxes? What do we “owe” to everyone?

    14. For whom are we to live and to die?

    15. What country does St. Paul still hope to preach the Gospel in?

    16. What must the Roman saints do about those who create dissensions?







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