| Preface | 2 | |
| Reprint Guidelines | 4 | |
| Table of Contents | 6 | |
| Abbreviations and References | 11 | |
| Introduction | 13 | |
| Author | 13 | |
| Rome in the Mid First Century | 13 | |
| Religion in Rome | 14 | |
| Christianity in Rome | 14 | |
| Chronology of Paul's Apostolic Career | 15 | |
| Purpose of Paul's Letter to the Romans | 16 | |
| Why Study Romans 5-8? | 17 | |
| Why Study Romans 5 along with Chapters 6 through 8? | 17 | |
| What Did Paul Say in Chapters 1-4? | 17 | |
| How to Study Romans | 18 | |
| 1. We Now Have Peace with God (Romans 5:1-11) | 19 | |
| Justified Through Faith (5:1) | 21 | |
| Peace with God (5:1) | 22 | |
| Title: the Lord Jesus Christ | 23 | |
| Access to God's Favor (5:2a) | 23 | |
| Our Hope of the Glory of God (5:2b) | 24 | |
| Causes for Rejoicing (5:3-4) | 26 | |
| God's Love Poured into Our Hearts by the Spirit (5:5) | 28 | |
| Christ Died for Us Sinners (5:6-8) | 29 | |
| The Cross Demonstrates God's Love for You and Me (5:8) | 30 | |
| Justified, Reconciled, and Rescued (5:9-10) | 32 | |
| Rejoicing in God (5:11) | 33 | |
| 2. United to Christ, the Second Adam (Romans 5:12-6:5) | 35 | |
| Sin and Death Came through Our Progenitor Adam (5:12) | 37 | |
| Death Came to all Men, because All Sinned (5:12b) | 38 | |
| The Patriarch Effects His Descendants | 39 | |
| One Person Acts for or Represents the Entire Group | 39 | |
| Struggling for Terminology | 40 | |
| An Especially American Difficulty | 42 | |
| Sin Reigns with and without the Law (5:13-14) | 42 | |
| The Doctrine of Original Sin | 43 | |
| Christ, the Second Adam (5:15-19) | 44 | |
| Resurrection through the "Last Adam" (1 Corinthians 15:45-49) | 46 | |
| The Law Spotlights and Increases Sin (5:20-6:2a) | 46 | |
| We Have Been United with Christ (6:2b-5) | 47 | |
| We Died to Sin! (6:2) | 47 | |
| The Concept of Union with Christ Is Basic to Paul's Theology | 48 | |
| We are "In Christ" | 49 | |
| 3. United with Christ, Free from Sin's Slavery (Romans 6:1-11) | 52 | |
| Unbridled Sin is Incompatible with Christian Life (6:1) | 53 | |
| We Died to Sin! (6:2) | 54 | |
| Baptism Both Symbolizes Truth and Unites us to Christ (6:3-4) | 54 | |
| 1. We are baptized into Christ's death, not our own (6:3) | 54 | |
| 2. Baptism involves incorporation into Christ (6:3) | 54 | |
| 3. Baptism by immersion symbolizes burial and resurrection (6:4) | 55 | |
| 4. Coming up from the water symbolizes living a new life (6:4b) | 55 | |
| 5. Baptism symbolizes our 'mystical union' with Christ (6:5) | 55 | |
| 6. Baptism looks forward to our own resurrection on the Last Day (6:5) | 56 | |
| Alive in Christ, Dead to Sin | 57 | |
| Dying and Rising in Paul | 58 | |
| Crucified, Destroyed, and Set Free (6:6) | 59 | |
| Purpose: To Free Us from Slavery (6:6b-7) | 61 | |
| Dead People Aren't Slaves (6:7) | 61 | |
| Alive to Christ (6:8) | 62 | |
| Summing Up (6:9-10) | 62 | |
| Count Yourself Dead to Sin (6:11a) | 63 | |
| You Are Alive to God in Christ Jesus (6:11b) | 64 | |
| Excursus: Baptism by Immersion (Romans 6:3-4) | 66 | |
| Disagreements about Baptism | 66 | |
| Immediate Baptism | 67 | |
| Subjects of Baptism | 68 | |
| Method of Baptism | 69 | |
| Buried with Christ in Baptism (6:4a) | 70 | |
| Immersion as a Mode of Baptism in Our Day | 71 | |
| We Are United to Christ and Christ's Death (6:3-5) | 71 | |
| 4. Slaves to Righteousness Rather Than Sin (6:12-23) | 72 | |
| Countering the Reign of Sinful Passions (6:12-13) | 74 | |
| Deliberately Offering Ourselves to a New Master (6:13) | 75 | |
| No Longer under Law but under Grace (6:14-15) | 77 | |
| You Are Slaves to the One You Obey (6:16) | 77 | |
| Illustrations of Bondage | 77 | |
| But You Have Been Set Free, Manumitted (6:17-18) | 78 | |
| "The Doctrine of Inevitable Sin" | 79 | |
| Honoring True Christian Doctrine (6:17b) | 81 | |
| Slaves Either to Sin or to God (6:19-23) | 82 | |
| The Reward of Righteous Slaves (6:19-23) | 83 | |
| Wages vs. Gift (6:23) | 84 | |
| 5. Struggling with Sin in Our Own Strength (Romans 7:1-25) | 86 | |
| Release from the Law: A Marriage Metaphor (7:1-4) | 88 | |
| The Era of the Spirit (7:5-6) | 89 | |
| The Relationship of the Flesh to the Law (7:5) | 90 | |
| Understanding the Flesh, the Sinful Nature | 90 | |
| Waging War against Our Souls (7:23) | 92 | |
| The Law | 93 | |
| The Law Reveals the Nature of Sin (7:7) | 94 | |
| Sin Feeds Off of the Law's Commands (7:8-12) | 95 | |
| The Corrupt Heart of Man -- Total Depravity | 96 | |
| "That Saved a Wretch Like Me" | 96 | |
| The Law Demonstrates the Evil of Sin (7:13) | 98 | |
| Are Christians Expected to Keep the Law? | 98 | |
| Who Is the "I" (7:14-25) | 99 | |
| Is this "I" Regenerate or Unregenerate? | 100 | |
| How Do We Apply Romans 7? | 101 | |
| Who Will Deliver Me? (7:24-25) | 102 | |
| 6. Learning to Walk by the Spirit (Romans 8:1-17) | 104 | |
| Joined to Christ, Set Free from Sin and Death (8:1-4) | 106 | |
| The Law, Weakened by the Flesh, Is Powerless to Save (8:3a) | 107 | |
| Salvation through Christ Jesus (8:3b-4a) | 107 | |
| Walking in the Spirit (8:4b) | 109 | |
| What Controls and Directs Your Mind? (8:5-8) | 109 | |
| The Flesh Harbors Hostility toward God (8:7-8) | 111 | |
| The Contrast between a Mindset of Flesh vs. Spirit (8:5-8) | 112 | |
| The Life-Giving Spirit Frees Us from Bondage to the Flesh (8:9) | 113 | |
| The Essential Spirit (8:9c) | 114 | |
| The Spirit -- the Promise of Resurrection (8:10-11) | 115 | |
| The Spirit Sets Us Free from the Necessity to Sin (8:12) | 115 | |
| Putting to Death the Misdeeds of the Body (8:13) | 117 | |
| Being Led by the Spirit (8:14) | 118 | |
| Children and Heirs Who Cry by the Spirit, "Abba, Father" | 119 | |
| The Testimony of the Spirit (8:16) | 119 | |
| 7. Revealing the Children of God in Future Glory (Romans 8:14-28) | 123 | |
| Theme 1: Full Sons and Daughters of God (8:14-17) | 124 | |
| The Revealing of the Sons of God | 126 | |
| Future Glory, Present Sufferings (8:17-19) | 127 | |
| Theme 2: Present Sufferings (8:18a) | 127 | |
| Creation Groaning (8:20-22) | 128 | |
| The Fallen Creation | 129 | |
| Frustration, Bondage, Groaning, and Travail (8:20-22) | 130 | |
| Theme 3. The Spirit of God Helps Us in our Present Weakness (8:26-27) | 132 | |
| Spirit - Helper, "Other Paraclete" (John 14:16) | 132 | |
| Hope -- Our Eager Expectation (8:24-25) | 133 | |
| Theme 4. Great Glory Is Coming (8:18) | 135 | |
| A Radiant Glory beyond Description | 135 | |
| The Glory Will Be within Us | 136 | |
| The Perfect Garden Creation of God | 137 | |
| The Glory of Resurrection (8:23) | 138 | |
| God Is Working All Things to Our Good (8:28) | 138 | |
| 8. More than Conquerors (8:28-39) | 140 | |
| In All Things God Works! (8:28) | 141 | |
| What It Does Not Mean | 142 | |
| God Actively Works All Things for Our Good (8:28) | 143 | |
| The Focus of God's Goodness (8:28) | 144 | |
| Foreknowledge and Predestination (8:29a) | 145 | |
| Conformed to Jesus (8:29) | 147 | |
| Firstborn among Many Brothers (8:29b) | 148 | |
| Predestined, Called, Justified, Glorified (8:30) | 148 | |
| God Is For You! (8:31) | 149 | |
| The Father Didn't Spare Even His Only Son (8:32) | 150 | |
| Freely Giving Us All Things (8:32b) | 152 | |
| No Charge Will Stick against Us (8:33-34) | 153 | |
| No One Can Separate Us from Christ's Love for Us (8:35-36) | 154 | |
| We Are More than Conquerors (8:37) | 156 | |
| Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of God (8:38-39) | 157 | |
| Appendix 1. Big Concepts in Romans 5-8 | 160 | |
| Appendix 2. The Concept of Union with Christ Is Basic to Paul's Theology | 162 | |
| Appendix 3. Songs and Hymns based on Romans 5-8 - Christ Powered Life | 167 | |
| Appendix 4. Participant Handouts for Groups and Classes | 179 | |