ROMANS Study Guide

1) Serve not the Lord but their belly’s (own appetites…desires)

2) Good words and fair speech (plausible and flattering words)

3) Deceive (seduce or beguile…to lie or distort the truth for their

own gain)

Rom 16:19 For your obedience reached to all. Therefore, I am glad on your behalf, But I would have you truly wise as to good, and simple toward evil.

c. Paul declares the Roman church has a good reputation of

obedience to Christ but he wants them to be careful and wise

toward such evil leaders …. discerning what is “good and simple”

(unmixed) in leaders of God’s people.

d. With Confidence Paul exhorts them that shortly God will “shatter”

Satan under their feet…that is they will be able to discern Sa tan

and his servants and expose their efforts to cause problems for

the Roman Church. Paul is concerned that these precious people not

allow Satan to infiltrate their church with deceitful and dangerous

leaders who will sow division.

Rom 16:21 Timothy my fellow worker, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater my kinsmen, greet you. Rom 16:22 I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord. Rom 16:23 Gaius my host, and the host of me and the whole church, greets you. Erastus the steward of the city greets you, and Quartus a brother. Rom 16:24 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

3. Paul’s extended ending and blessing: (vss.20 -27)

a. Paul appears to be closing the letter here with his customary

impartation of grace and a promise of spiritual victory. (vs.20)

b. Paul greets the church in behalf of his apostolic team …vs.21

(Lucius is Luke the Evangelist who wrote the Gospel of Luke)

c. The letter seems to have been written from Corinth because

Erastus is the City Treasure of the City of Corinth (Acts 19:22)

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