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Romans · read by Michael Horton
23 verses, in order. Only the verses Michael read aloud are shown.
Romans 4
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What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered?Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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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 ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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"Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him."Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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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 ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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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 · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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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 ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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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 ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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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 ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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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 ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness."Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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Now the words "it was credited to him" were written not only for Abraham,Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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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 ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
Romans 7
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What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
Romans 8
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Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life