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This volume on the second half of Romans addresses some of the most difficult passages within the book. The power in the Epistle to the Romans is as important today as it was in years past. If Christians today are going to evangelize the world and reverse the losses of the past century we must rediscover the power of God’s salvation exposed and explained in Romans.

12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers,5 in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. The word “therefore” links what follows not just to the immediately preceding verses, but to the entire message of the epistle thus far, which is summarized as “God’s mercy.” The word translated “mercy”6 is οἰκτιρμός (oiktirmos, “pity, mercy, compassion”); it is used only here in Romans. The more common word for mercy
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