The Study Guide for the NIV Bible

STUDY GUIDE SECTION 317 ROMANS 1-3
ROMANS 1
Vs 1. Paul, a _______ of Christ Jesus, called to be an ______ and set apart for the _______ of God--
Vs. 5 Through him and for his name's _____, we received grace and apostleship to call _______ from among all the Gentiles to the _________ that comes from faith. 6 And you also are among those who are ______ to belong to Jesus Christ. 7 To all in Rome who are _____ by God and called to be ______: Grace and peace to you from God our _______ and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

NOTE: “Vs. 1:1 “Bondservant. … the common NT word for servant. Although in Greek it most often referred to the involuntary permanent service of a slave, Paul elevates this word by using it in its Hebrew sense to describe a servant who willingly commits himself to serve a master he loves and respects.”
“apostle – The Greek word means “one who is sent.””…..Christ gave them power to confirm their apostleship with miracles.” (MacArthur 2005)

Vs. 8. First, I thank my God ________ Jesus Christ for all of you, because your _____ is being reported all ____ the world.
Vs. 11-13. I long to see you so that I may ______ to you some spiritual gift to make you ______ -- 12 that is, that you and I may be mutually __________ by each other's faith. 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I _______ many times to come to you (but have been __________ from doing so until now) in ______ that I might have a harvest ______ you, just as I have had among the ______ Gentiles.
Vs. 16-17. I am not _______ of the gospel, because it is the ______ of God for the salvation of _________ who believes: first for the Jew, then for the _______. 17 For in the gospel a _____________ from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by ______ from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will _____ by faith."
Vs. 18-19. The wrath of God is being ________ from heaven against all the godlessness and ___________ of men who suppress the _____ by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is ______ to them, because _____ has made it plain to them.
Vs. 21-23. For although they _____ God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave ______ to him, but their ________ became futile and their foolish ______ were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be ____, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the ______ God for images made to look like mortal ____ and birds and animals and ________.
Vs. 26-27. Because of this, God gave them over to ________ lusts. Even their women exchanged natural _________ for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the ____ also abandoned natural relations with ______ and were inflamed with _____ for one another. Men committed _________ acts with other men, and received in themselves the due ______ for their perversion.

Vs. 29-31. They have become ______ with every kind of wickedness, evil, _____ and depravity. They are full of envy, ______, strife, deceit and malice. They are _______,
30 slanderers, __________, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they ______ ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they are senseless, _________, heartless, ruthless.