Romans
King James Version · 16 chapters · 433 verses · New Testament
The gospel, laid out from the ground up
Paul writing to a church he had never visited, and taking the opportunity to set out the whole argument properly. He starts with the bad news and takes three chapters over it: the pagan world is guilty, the moral world is guilty, the religious world is guilty, and all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Then justification by faith, using Abraham as the test case. Then what it means to be dead to sin and alive to God, and chapter 8, which ends with nothing in all creation able to separate us. Then Israel, and then how to live.