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Romans provides pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and lay people a clear and compelling exposition of the text in the context of the Bible’s overarching story—God’s story. The author moves away from “application” language, which has been criticized as being too simplistic, instead encouraging discussion of how Romans and the Bible can be lived today.

and foolishness to Gentiles” (1 Cor 1:23). Many of Paul’s detractors, Jews and some Jewish Christians, thought that Paul was doing the unthinkable. He was declaring that the Gentiles are acceptable to God on the basis of faith in Jesus, apart from observing the Torah, and completely bypassing the visible emblems of Israel’s election (see Acts 15:1–2; Gal 2:4–5; 5:1–12; 1 Thess 2:15). The objection was probably along the lines that Paul was denigrating the God-given Torah by failing to insist on obedience
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