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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...

Romans 13 Exposition I. The Righteous One Obeys Human Government. vv. 1–7. “Let every soul be subject to the superior authorities, for there is no authority except by God; the ones who are have been appointed by God” (v. 1). Paul’s thought moves from the supreme idea of devotion to God to a tightly organized exhortation on obedience to human government. “The total dedication called for in Romans 12:1–2 does not relate to an ethereal sphere that floats above the exigencies of everyday life” (Schreiner,
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