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Romans · read by David Shirley
100 verses, in order. Only the verses David read aloud are shown.
Romans 2
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But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.Read from KJV · Progress of Redemption #09
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Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.Read from KJV · Progress of Redemption #09
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So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending themRead from KJV · Progress of Redemption #09
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on the day when God will judge men's secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.Read from KJV · Progress of Redemption #09
Romans 3
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and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #11
Romans 4
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What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered?Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.Read from ESV · Progress of Redemption #08
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However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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"Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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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 NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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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 NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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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 NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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Now the words "it was credited to him" were written not only for Abraham,Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
Romans 6
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The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.Read from ESV · Progress of Redemption #11
Romans 7
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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 NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #07
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But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #07
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Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #07
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So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #07
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For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #07
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So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #07
Romans 8
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But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #01
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And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #01
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And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.Read from KJV · Progress of Redemption #09
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For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.Read from NKJV · Progress of Redemption #02
Romans 9
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I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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It is not as though God's word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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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 NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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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 · Progress of Redemption #08
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Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's plan of election might stand,Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, "The older will serve the younger."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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For He says to Moses: "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."Read from ESV · Progress of Redemption #08
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So then, it does not depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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One of you will say to me, "Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?"Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, "Why did You make me like this?"Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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As He says in Hosea: "I will call them 'My People' who are not My people, and I will call her 'My Beloved' who is not My beloved,"Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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and, "It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not My people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
Romans 10
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Because they were ignorant of God's righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.Read from ESV · Progress of Redemption #08
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For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: "The man who does these things will live by them."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down)Read from ESV · Progress of Redemption #08
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or, 'Who will descend into the Abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)."Read from ESV · Progress of Redemption #08
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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 NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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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 NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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It is just as the Scripture says: "Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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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 NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: "Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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But as for Israel he says: "All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
Romans 11
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I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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And David says: "May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministryRead from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.Read from ESV · Progress of Redemption #08
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Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.Read from KJV · Progress of Redemption #07
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And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins."Read from KJV · Progress of Redemption #07
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Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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Just as you who formerly disobeyed God have now received mercy through their disobedience,Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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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 NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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"Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?"Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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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 NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
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 NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #08
Romans 14
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For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #11
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For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.Read from ESV · Progress of Redemption #11