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In the latest addition to BECNT, Pauline scholar Thomas Schreiner presents a fresh analysis of the substantive Book of Romans. It features many distinctives. “I have tried to write a scholarly commentary that fulfills the goals of brevity and lucidity,” Schreiner explains. “One of my goals has been to trace the flow of thought in the letter so that the reader can understand how the argument...

C. The Triumph of Grace Over the Power of Sin (6:1–23) The Jews believed that God’s covenantal promises would be fulfilled through keeping the Torah, but Paul argues that God’s purpose in giving the law was to increase sin in Israel (Rom. 5:20). The deliverance from sin that Israel hoped for has come about not through the law but through the second Adam, Jesus Christ. In chapter 6 Paul now explains that the fulfillment of God’s promises is indeed a reality for the new people of God because the power
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