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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...

pride (even boast) that his destiny was the direct result of what he himself had done. This is Paul’s point in Romans 4:2. Imagine human creatures boasting of saving themselves. What would it suggest about their inflated views of themselves? What would it suggest about their scandalous view of God? For Paul, coming into a right relationship with God must be the result of a divine act of free grace. It must be a gift (v. 4; see also 6:23). No human action can establish this right relationship. So
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