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Romans · read by Bob Hoekstra
68 verses, in order. Only the verses Bob read aloud are shown.
Romans 1
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For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #06 - the New Covenant of Grace
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The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.Read from NASB1995 · Family God's Way #3 - Worldly Threats to Family
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Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,Read from NASB1995 · Family God's Way #3 - Worldly Threats to Family
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and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #3 - Worldly Threats to Family
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Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #3 - Worldly Threats to Family
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They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #3 - Worldly Threats to Family
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For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #3 - Worldly Threats to Family
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Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #3 - Worldly Threats to Family
Romans 3
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Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #03 - the Old Covenant of Law
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Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.Read from NKJV · The Law and the Grace of God
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But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #1 - the Law of God
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And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,Read from NKJV · The Law and the Grace of God
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for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,Read from ESV · Growing in the Grace of God #04 - the Old Covenant of Law
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and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #05 - the New Covenant of Grace
Romans 4
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For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah's womb.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
Romans 5
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Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,Read from NASB1995 · Growing in the Grace of God #05 - the New Covenant of Grace
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Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.Read from NKJV · Counseling God's Way Leadership Seminar - Part 2
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For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #24 - Various Aspects of New Covenant Grace Part 2
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The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,Read from NKJV · The Much More of Grace
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so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #12 - a Covenant of Relationship Part 2
Romans 6
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What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #06 - the New Covenant of Grace
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Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #6 - the 'Much More' Grace of God
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For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.Read from NKJV · Counseling God's Way Leadership Seminar - Part 2
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For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #13 - Characters of New Covenant Life & Service Part 1
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Read from KJV · Being Built Up as Living Stones
Romans 7
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Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #3 - Living Daily by the Grace of God
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But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #01 - the New Covenant Part 1
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What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, "Do not covet."Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #03 - the Old Covenant of Law
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Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #03 - the Old Covenant of Law
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For in my inner being I delight in God's law.Read from NKJV · Counseling God's Way Leadership Seminar - Part 2
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But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.Read from NKJV · Counseling God's Way Leadership Seminar - Part 2
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What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?Read from ESV · Counseling God's Way Leadership Seminar - Part 2
Romans 8
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For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #08 - the Holy Spirit Covenant Part 2
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so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #08 - the Holy Spirit Covenant Part 2
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Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #4 - the Holy Spirit and the Grace of God
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The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #4 - the Holy Spirit and the Grace of God
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For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #4 - the Holy Spirit and the Grace of God
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No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #2 - Characteristics of Living by God's Sufficiency
Romans 9
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So it is not the children of the flesh who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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For this is what the promise stated: "At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son."Read from NASB1995 · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
Romans 10
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For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.Read from ESV · Growing in the Grace of God #04 - the Old Covenant of Law
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But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 1
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that if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 1
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It is just as the Scripture says: "Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame."Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 1
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For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 1
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for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 1
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Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.Read from NKJV · The Ability of God's Word - Study 2
Romans 11
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In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 1
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And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 1
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What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 1
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O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 2
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"Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?"Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 2
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"Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?"Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 2
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For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.Read from ESV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 2
Romans 12
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Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.Read from NKJV · Counseling God's Way Leadership Seminar - Part 3
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We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one's gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;Read from NKJV · Counseling God's Way Leadership Seminar - Part 2
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Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.Read from NKJV · Strategic Leadership Issues
Romans 15
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For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.Read from NKJV · The Ability of God's Word - Study 2
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Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #4 - Ministry to the Church
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Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.Read from NKJV · Lives Filled With Hope
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I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #4 - Ministry to the Church
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I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.Read from NKJV · The Fullness of the Blessing of the Gospel of Christ