This pivotal chapter presents the believer's life in the Spirit, contrasting the carnal mind (which is death and enmity against God) with the spiritual mind that brings life and peace. Paul develops the themes of adoption, the Spirit's witness to sonship, present suffering and future glory, the groaning of creation and the intercession of the Spirit, culminating in the triumphant declaration that nothing can separate believers from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
Greeting, desire to visit, gospel summary.
Freedom from sin, law struggle, Spirit's life.
Paul wrote his longest epistle to the Romans from the city of Corinth around AD 57 during his third missionary journey. He had never visited Rome when he wrote this comprehensive theological treatise.
RomansPaul dictated Romans to a scribe. Near the end, that scribe suddenly speaks up in his own voice: 'I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord' (Romans 16:22). A brief, human 'fourth-wall' moment slipped right into Scripture.
Romans 16:22
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