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Romans: A Bible Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

Every generation of believers must return to the letter of Romans and rediscover Paul’s great insight concerning God’s righteousness, which comes to sinful humans only by grace and through our faith. This commentary invites readers to step back through two thousand years of history to enter a world that politically, socially, and religiously is different from our own. Clarence L. Bence shows how...

of the Spirit (air) being in the believer while the believer is in the Spirit (air). It is certainly consistent with Paul’s observation on Mars Hill concerning a God in whom “we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). At the same time, this God, through His eternal Spirit, is in us! The abiding presence of this Spirit motivates the believer to develop a mind-set oriented toward spiritual desires (v. 5). Paul does not negate the natural desires; instead he urges believers to bring them under
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