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The Righteousness of God: A Commentary on Romans is unavailable, but you can change that!

Romans is a personal book for the author. As a child, he suffered from a bed-ridden illness. His grandmother gave him the Bible to read and it was in Paul’s letter to the Romans when the Holy Spirit began to deal directly with him. Custer has studied Romans from the Greek Testament and has preached through Romans in church and taught it in seminary classes. In the Introduction, the author...

Testament times. God chose Israel to be His people (Deut. 7:6–7), called them as a son out of Egypt (Hos. 11:1), manifested His majesty on Sinai (Exod. 19:18), gave them the law (Exod. 20) and the service of the tabernacle (Exod. 40:33–38), and gave many promises to Abraham and others (Gen. 12:1–3; 15:1–6; 22:15–17; Josh. 1:1–9). Paul considered himself a “Hebrew of the Hebrews” (Phil. 3:5). Morris (Romans, p. 348) identifies the covenants Paul is referring to as those with Noah (Gen. 9:9), Abraham
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