Scripture index: Romans

Gospel › So what is the gospel?

Slavery › Covenant people are slaves to God

Trinity › Triadic pattern explicit in NT

Creator-creature distinction › We belong to God by virtue of new creation

Ro 1:16–17

Old Testament canon › Twelve Minor Prophets (one book)

Ro 1:18–25

Essential doctrines › Unbelief and heresy are damnable

Ro 1:18–32

Attributes of God › Wrath

Ro 1:19–20

Vain thoughts › False doctrine, worldly wisdom, philosophy is vain, wasted thought

Ro 1:22–23

Idolatry › Making idols is foolish in general

Ro 1:22–25

Creator-creature distinction › Worship of created things forbidden

Ro 2:1–11

No second chance › Men are without excuse

Old Testament canon › Psalms

Hell › “Unquenchable fire”, “lake of fire”, “second death”, “outer darkness”, etc.

Ro 2:14–15

Mosaic covenant › Continuity with Covenant of Grace

Ro 2:17–24

Boasting › Boasting ruled out by fallenness, sin

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Ro 2:26–29

Scripture › The church will corporately recognize Scripture

Questions in Romans › Questions in Romans

Questions in Romans › Questions in Romans

Ro 3:9–18

Ro 3:10–11

Fourfold state of man › Fallen (not able not to sin—non posse non peccare)

Ro 3:10–12

Old Testament canon › Psalms

Old Testament canon › Psalms

Old Testament canon › Psalms

Ro 3:15–17

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Old Testament canon › Psalms

Ro 3:20–21

Scripture › Old Testament canon

Ro 3:21–22

Ro 3:23–25

Order of salvation › Faith, repentance result in justification

Ro 3:26–28

Five solas of the Reformation › Sola fide

Boasting › Boasting ruled out by grace

Ro 3:27–28

Order of salvation › Faith, repentance result in justification

Five solas of the Reformation › Sola fide

Ro 4:1–25

Scripture › NT authors assume OT is easy to understand

Boasting › Boasting ruled out by grace

Gospel › Free gift juxtaposed against wages

Essential doctrines › Salvation by grace through faith in Christ

Order of salvation › Faith, repentance result in justification

Old Testament canon › Psalms

Ro 4:11–12

Baptism › Examples of circumcision/baptism before or without salvation

Ro 4:13–16

Five solas of the Reformation › Sola fide

Ro 4:13–17

Subjects of baptism › Children/offspring included in virtually every mention of new covenant

Ro 4:13–18

Old Testament canon › Genesis

Ro 4:20–25

Five solas of the Reformation › Sola fide

Old Testament canon › Genesis

Five solas of the Reformation › Sola fide

Assurance of salvation › True assurance

Boasting › Boasting in God, Christ, salvation

Boasting › Boasting in suffering, weakness, humiliation

God is love › God loves an otherwise unspecified audience (“you” or “us”)

Ro 5:5–10

Trinity › Triadic pattern explicit in NT

Ro 5:8–10

Definite atonement › Secures salvation

Ro 5:10–11

Jesus is God › “Who can intercede?”

Ro 5:12–14

Hypostatic union › Called a man or “Son of Man” by himself and others (not exhaustive)

Ro 5:18–19

Questions in Romans › Questions in Romans

Subjects of baptism › All recipients of baptism have put on Christ

Baptism › Signifies admission to covenant community, visible church, ingrafting into Christ

Ro 6:3–14

Baptism › Baptism signifies death and resurrection (implying immersion is a necessary symbol)

Amillennialism › “First resurrection” is regeneration

Ro 6:15–18

Questions in Romans › Questions in Romans

Slavery › Sinners are enslaved to sin

Ro 6:16–22

Slavery › Covenant people are slaves to God

Scripture › Apostles were agents of canon

Marriage › Ends at death

Marriage › Ends at death

Creator-creature distinction › We belong to God by virtue of new creation

Mosaic covenant › Discontinuity with Covenant of Grace? (Republication of Covenant of Works?)

Ro 7:7–12

Questions in Romans › Questions in Romans

Gospel › “He who does the commandments shall live by them”

Mosaic covenant › Continuity with Covenant of Grace

Ro 7:13–20

Questions in Romans › Questions in Romans

Total depravity › Unregenerate man cannot not sin (non posse non peccare)

Mosaic covenant › Continuity with Covenant of Grace

Union with Christ › We are in Christ

Mosaic covenant › Discontinuity with Covenant of Grace? (Republication of Covenant of Works?)

Trinity › Triadic pattern explicit in NT

Definite atonement › Secures salvation

Mosaic covenant › Continuity with Covenant of Grace

Fourfold state of man › Fallen (not able not to sin—non posse non peccare)

Trinity › Spirit proceeds from Father and Son

Ro 8:9–11

Life › The Spirit is life

Ro 8:10–11

Trinity › Inseparable operations

Ro 8:14–17

Ro 8:15–16

Assurance of salvation › Basis of true and false assurance

Ro 8:15–17

Heirs of God › Heirs of God

Ro 8:16–17

Trinity › Distinction between persons

Heirs of God › We will inherit glory, glorified bodies

Ro 8:18–25

Covenant theology › Noahic covenant

Ro 8:19–23

God the Father › Of believers, the elect (the true Israel)

Heaven › New heavens and new earth

Ro 8:22–23

Heirs of God › We will inherit glory, glorified bodies

Ro 8:26–27

Ro 8:28–29

Doctrines of grace › Unconditional election

Ro 8:28–34

Definite atonement › Secures salvation

Ro 8:28–39

Preservation of the saints › Election, predestination are irrevocable

Ro 8:29–30

Ro 8:31–39

Unconditional election › Election is a pastoral doctrine, a great comfort to believers

Ro 8:32–34

Definite atonement › Propitiation and intercession inseparably linked

Ro 8:33–34

God is love › God loves an otherwise unspecified audience (“you” or “us”)

Old Testament canon › Psalms

God is love › God loves an otherwise unspecified audience (“you” or “us”)

Ro 8:38–39

Doctrines of grace › Preservation of the saints

God is love › God loves an otherwise unspecified audience (“you” or “us”)

God the Father › Of Israel

Unconditional election › Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses elected

Ro 9:6–13

Abrahamic covenant › Not all are children of Abraham simply because they are his offspring

Subjects of baptism › New covenant belongs to children of promise, not of flesh

God the Father › Of believers, the elect (the true Israel)

Old Testament canon › Genesis

Ro 9:10–13

Unconditional election › All occurrences of “election”

Ro 9:14–18

Old Testament canon › Exodus

Ro 9:15–16

Effectual grace › Regeneration is an act of God

Ro 9:15–18

Unconditional election › Election is unconditional

Free will › Seemingly explicit denials of free will

Old Testament canon › Exodus

Ro 9:17–24

Unconditional election › Reprobation is also predestined

Ro 9:18–19

Ro 9:19–24

Questions in Romans › Questions in Romans

Ro 9:20–21

Creator-creature distinction › God has absolute rights over creation

Old Testament canon › Twelve Minor Prophets (one book)

Ro 9:25–26

Abrahamic covenant › NT church represented as a nation

Ro 9:27–28

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Ro 9:30–33

Five solas of the Reformation › Sola fide

Ro 9:31–32

Effectual grace › Jesus and apostles pray to God asking that people would be saved

Ro 10:1–13

Five solas of the Reformation › Sola fide

Ro 10:3–13

Mosaic covenant › Discontinuity with Covenant of Grace? (Republication of Covenant of Works?)

Ro 10:6–8

Old Testament canon › Deuteronomy

Attributes of God › Immanence

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Old Testament canon › Deuteronomy

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Ro 11:1–6

Questions in Romans › Questions in Romans

Old Testament canon › 1 & 2 Kings (one book)

Old Testament canon › 1 & 2 Kings (one book)

Ro 11:4–7

Doctrines of grace › Unconditional election

Ro 11:5–6

Unconditional election › Election is unconditional

Ro 11:7–8

Unconditional election › Reprobation is also predestined

Ro 11:7–10

Deception › God blinds eyes and hardens hearts

Ro 11:9–10

Old Testament canon › Psalms

Ro 11:11–12

Questions in Romans › Questions in Romans

Ro 11:16–24

Abrahamic covenant › Old and new covenant communities represented as a single olive tree

Ro 11:17–24

Church › Other metaphors

Ro 11:19–22

Subjects of baptism › Some church members are unregenerate (i.e. new covenant community is “mixed”)

Ro 11:26–27

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Ro 11:28–29

Simplicity › Act-potency composition

Ro 11:33–34

Ro 11:33–36

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Ro 11:35–36

Attributes of God › Omnibenevolence (all-good, all-loving)

Ro 12:4–5

Church membership › Occurrences of “member”, “citizen”

Ro 12:4–8

Spiritual gifts › Enumeration of spiritual gifts

Ro 12:9–10

Church membership › Members obligated to love one another

Old Testament canon › Proverbs

Jesus is God › Sovereignty

Ro 13:1–7

Ro 13:8–10

Church membership › Members obligated to love one another

Religious dietary rules › All things are clean

Ro 14:1–5

Essential doctrines › In non-essentials, liberty

Preservation of the saints › God is able to preserve

Ro 14:5–6

Lord’s Supper › Recurrence, frequency of

Ro 14:5–10

Sabbath › Ceremonial aspects done away in Christ

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Essential doctrines › In non-essentials, liberty

Definite atonement › Some for whom Christ died may not ultimately be saved

Ro 14:17–18

Trinity › Triadic pattern explicit in NT

Essential doctrines › In non-essentials, liberty

Ro 14:21–23

Essential doctrines › In non-essentials, liberty

Essential doctrines › Unbelief and heresy are damnable

Old Testament canon › Psalms

Old Testament canon › Deuteronomy

Old Testament canon › Psalms

Ro 15:15–16

Priesthood › Paul called his ministry “priestly service”

Ro 15:16–17

Trinity › Triadic pattern explicit in NT

Ro 15:17–18

Providence › Concurrence in human will

Ro 15:18–19

Trinity › Triadic pattern explicit in NT

Holy Spirit is God › Omnipotence (all-powerful)

Old Testament canon › Isaiah

Trinity › Triadic pattern explicit in NT

Church government › Deacon, every occurrence of

Ro 16:1–16

Church membership › Other

Church › Local and universal

Church government › Examples of apostles besides original twelve, Matthias, Paul

Attributes of God › Omnisapience (all-wise)