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Dale Leschert has written, “Paul’s epistle to the Romans may possibly be the most influential letter ever written. Apart from its immediate impact upon the first century, it has indirectly altered the direction of the church and secular history through its instrumentality in the conversion of several of Christianity’s most outstanding leaders.” Augustine, Luther and Wesley are among those who...

We conclude, therefore, that the core element of the ethical ‘appeal’ is the unity, love and mutual service of the people of God, who through the gospel are the people of the Messiah, composed of Jews and Gentiles. Throughout Romans Paul has been arguing the case to Jews and Gentiles in Rome that they are not ‘righteous before God’ by the ‘works of the Law’ but only through their faith in Christ crucified and risen.1 By ‘works of the Law’ Paul means both (1) the Commandments
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