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| Welcome to the Teach the Text Commentary Series | |
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| Introduction to the Teach the Text Commentary Series | |
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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction to Romans | |
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| Romans 1:1-7 The Gospel of God in Christ through Paul | |
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| Romans 1:8-15 The Obedience of Faith of the Gentiles | |
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| Romans 1:16-17 The Gospel of Deliverance | |
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| Romans 1:18-32 The Story of Israel and the Story of Gentiles | |
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| Romans 2:1-11 The Story of Israel Now and Later | |
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| Romans 2:12-16 The Story of the Gentiles Now and Later | |
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| Romans 2:17-24 Paul Reinterprets the Story of Israel | |
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| Romans 2:25-29 The Gentiles and the Restoration of Israel | |
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| Romans 3:1-8 The Faithfulness of God and the Covenantal Curses on Israel | |
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| Romans 3:9-20 The Whole World Is under the Curses of the Covenant | |
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| Romans 3:21-26 God's Saving Righteousness and the Restoration of Israel | |
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| Additional Insights: Sacrifice Redemption Paul's Use of Traditional Material | |
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| Romans 3:27-31 Boasting in the Law versus Justification by Faith | |
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| Additional Insights: Faith and Law in Paul | |
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| Romans 4:1-8 The Story of Abraham versus the Story of Israel | |
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| Romans 4:9-17a The Abrahamic Covenant versus the Mosaic Covenant | |
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| Romans 4:17b-25 Faith, Abraham, and the Christian | |
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| Romans 5:1-4 The New-Covenant Blessings: Peace and Hope | |
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| Romans 5:5-11 The New-Covenant Blessings: Love | |
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| Romans 5:12-14 Adam, the Law, and the Curse of the Covenant | |
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| Romans 5:15-21 The New Humanity as a Blessing of the New Covenant | |
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| Romans 6:1-7 New Dominion as a Blessing of the New Covenant: Dead to Sin | |
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| Additional Insights: The Backgrounds of Christian Baptism | |
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| Romans 6:8-14 New Dominion as a Blessing of the New Covenant: Alive to God | |
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| Romans 6:15-23 The Christian's New Dominion: Dedicated to Righteousness | |
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| Romans 7:1-12 Freedom from the Law through Christ, Enslavement to the Law through Adam | |
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| Romans 7:13-25 "Wretched Man That I Am": Battle of the Two Ages within the Christian | |
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| Romans 8:1-17 The Holy Spirit and the Blessings of the New Covenant | |
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| Romans 8:18-30 The Spirit and the Glory of the Age to Come and the New Covenant | |
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| Romans 8:31-39 Justification before God because of the Love of Christ | |
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| Romans 9:1-5 Israel and the Present Curses and the Past Blessings of the Covenant | |
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| Romans 9:6-29 Covenantal Curses on Israel, Covenantal Blessings on Gentiles | |
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| Romans 9:30-10:5 The Reversal of the Deuteronomic Curses and Blessings: Replacing Law with Faith | |
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| Additional Insights: Deuteronomic Background Zealotry Telos | |
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| Romans 10:6-21 The Reversal of the Deuteronomic Curses and Blessings: Righteousness by Faith | |
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| Romans 11:1-10 Exile for National Israel, Restoration for Spiritual Israel | |
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| Romans 11:11-24 The Kindness and Sternness of God | |
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| Romans 11:25-32 The Mystery and Mercy of God | |
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| Romans 11:33-36 The Divine Plan of Salvation | |
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| Romans 12:1-2 Witnesses of the New Covenant | |
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| Romans 12:3-8 Service in the New-Covenant Community | |
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| Additional Insights: The Background of Paul's Body Imagery | |
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| Romans 12:9-21 The New-Covenant Ethic of Love | |
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| Romans 13:1-7 God and Government | |
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| Romans 13:8-14 Ethics and Eschatology | |
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| Romans 14:1-12 "Weak and Strong" Should Get Along | |
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| Romans 14:13-23 Strong and Weak Christians: The New and the Old Covenants | |
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| Romans 15:14-21 Paul the Apostle of the New Covenant to the Gentiles | |
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| Romans 15:22-29 Paul's Collection for Jerusalem and Mission to Spain | |
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| Romans 15:30-33 Curses on Unbelievers, Blessings on Believers | |
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| Romans 16:1-2 Paul, Phoebe, Patronage, and Spain | |
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| Romans 16:3-16 Paul's Greetings to the Roman Churches | |
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| Romans 16:17-20 Curses on the False Teachers, Blessings on the Roman Christians | |
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| Romans 16:21-23 Greetings to Roman Christians from Paul's Coworkers in Corinth | |
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| Romans 16:25-27 The Doxology | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Image Credits | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Subject Index | |