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Romans, Volume 2: The Reign of Grace (Romans 5:1–8:39): An Expositional Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Grace reigns,” says James Montgomery Boice, “not because God is gracious to us no matter what we do, but because grace has created in us a genuinely godly walk.” Volume 2, The Reign of Grace, focuses on the sovereignty, grace, and holiness of God and on the need for holiness in believers. James Montgomery Boice discusses the full meaning of salvation, the problem with suffering, the struggles...

Jesus. Instead of condemning us, God condemned sin so that “the righteous commandments of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.” This is the argument of verses 1–4. But we have not only received deliverance from the law’s condemnation as a result of God’s saving favor to us through Jesus Christ. We have also been delivered from ourselves, that is, from our sinful natures. The first deliverance
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