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Dr. Boa reminds us that part of the approach to understanding Romans is to discover the heart of the author, the apostle Paul. What did he want the Roman church to know and learn? This letter delivered some very profound doctrinal and practical truths to the first-century church that remain relevant to Christians today. The church at Rome contained Jews and Gentiles who were in need of apostolic...

“to be conformed to the likeness of [God’s] Son” (Rom. 8:29). But in this verse, the “conformation” is of a different sort than the “conformation” to the world that we are warned against in our present verse. We are warned against being shaped into (suschematizo) the patterns and schemes of the world, system in which we live. On the other hand, Paul says that we are being “made like” Christ. Here the word conformed is summorphos, made up of sum (with) and morphe (shape or form). The former word for
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