Romans 1:16-17

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Romans 1:16–17 NIV

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

English Standard Version Chapter 1

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, 28th Edition Chapter 1

16 Οὐ γὰρ ἐπαισχύνομαι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον⸆, δύναμις γὰρ θεοῦ ἐστιν ⸋εἰς σωτηρίαν⸌ παντὶ τῷ πιστεύοντι, Ἰουδαίῳ τε °πρῶτον καὶ Ἕλληνι*. 17 δικαιοσύνη γὰρ θεοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ ἀποκαλύπτεται ἐκ πίστεως εἰς πίστιν, καθὼς γέγραπται·* ὁ δὲ δίκαιος ⸆ ἐκ πίστεως ζήσεται*.

Verse 16:

Romans 1:16 NIV

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.

Romans

Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, 28th Edition Chapter 1

16 Οὐ γὰρ ἐπαισχύνομαι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον⸆, δύναμις γὰρ θεοῦ ἐστιν ⸋εἰς σωτηρίαν⸌ παντὶ τῷ πιστεύοντι, Ἰουδαίῳ τε °πρῶτον καὶ Ἕλληνι*.

Οὐ — Not - Adverb, negative — (Emphasis)

γὰρ— For -----Because — Emphasis ---Now, after verse 15, what now? I am not a shame… The positive is I am proud to preach the gospel.

ἐπαισχύνομαι — Verb, present, either middle or passive, indicative, 1st, sg — Finite verb (A verb finite verb: A verb whose form changes to maintain consonance with its subject. (References: BDF §307-425; Wallace p. 390-655; Smyth §1703-2152.)

Be ashamed — to be ashamed at; of; to be ashamed; to e ashamed of; feel shame, show a sense of shame.

Lukaszewski, A. L. (2007). The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament Glossary. Lexham Press.

(In a culture like this, you still believe thing like gospel? The world doesn’t think that way anymore. All you believe just idea....not fact).

τὸ εὐαγγέλιον⸆ — Noun, accusative, sg, neuter / direct object — Good news; gospel account, reward of good tidings; good news brought

Def. Article — Specific gospel — about Jesus and it is not about some thing else.

δύναμις - Power - Noun, nominative, sg, feminine / predicate nominative -

Sense — Power - possession of controlling influence; often understood as manifesting influence over reality in a supernatural manner.

(Luther spring time - newly from seminary think that this power will change hearts…) Let the Lord take care of it.

γὰρ θεοῦ— For God — Noun, gen, sg, masc / attributive genitive --

Another — For— because of Power of God…Genitive of connection to God some where....

ἐστιν— To be — verb, present, active indicative, 3, sg, — T have the quality of being — be exist, be on hand; is; be ; live, take place, occur, become, e,

⸋εἰς σωτηρίαν⸌ ---- Deliverance salvation — Noun, accusative, Sg, Fm / Prepositional object — The state of being delivered or preserved from harm of judgment; a safe haven in heaven. (deliverance, preservation; salvation

Eis — the goal — to accomplish…salvation.

παντὶ — Pas — Every one — Adjective, dative, sg, mas / att. adj.

τῷ πιστεύοντι --- Pisteuo - Believe — V, present, act, Partic, Sg, dative mas / Attri participle — To trust in Jesus as contained in the content of the Gospel. To confident about — ,

Personal — You as singular — one who believes…everyone

Ἰουδαίῳ —Judean; Jew — Adj, Dat, Sg, Mas, --- Why was Martin Luther labeled as racist?

τε °πρῶτον — First — Adv, ordinal adverb —

καὶ Ἕλληνι — Hellen — Greek — To the Gentile — Greek; gentile, polytheist, Greco-Roman ---

Note: Paul said, I am not ashamed of the gospel.

Romans 3:8 NIV

Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is just!

Romans

1 Corinthians 1:23 NIV

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

Gospel --

Isaiah 52:7 NIV

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Is 52:7

Isaiah 46:13 NIV

I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away; and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.

2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Co

Acts 16:17 NIV

She followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved.”

Power —

Acts

Isaiah 53:1 NIV

Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Acts 3:26 NIV

When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

Salvation -

Acts 13:46 NIV

Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

Colossians 3:11 NIV

Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

Acts 13:46

those who believes

Application —

1st for the Jew then to the Gentile --

Application —

What is God’s command?

What is God’s promise?

How do I take hold of this promise?

What are some of the ways that will make us ashamed of the Gospel..

Romans 1:17 NIV

For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

V. 17 --- δικαιοσύνη γὰρ θεοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ ἀποκαλύπτεται ἐκ πίστεως εἰς πίστιν, καθὼς γέγραπται·* ὁ δὲ δ

Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, 28th Edition Chapter 1

17 δικαιοσύνη γὰρ θεοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ ἀποκαλύπτεται ἐκ πίστεως εἰς πίστιν, καθὼς γέγραπται·* ὁ δὲ δίκαιος ⸆ ἐκ πίστεως ζήσεται*.

— Righteousness — Emphatic -

For —

God —

Revealed -

Faith -

δικαιοσύνη— righteousness — Noun, nom, sg, fem — Subj — Justice, equitableness, fairness; righteousness; uprightness, righteousness - fulfilment of the law —

γὰρ — For — Prepositional-- phrase

θεοῦ —God — noun, gen, sg, mas, / attributive genitive — Deity, god, goddess; God,

Genitive — of source from God.

ἐν αὐτῷ

ἀποκαλύπτεται - Apokalypo - Reveal; disclose — Verb, Pres, Pass, Indi, 3rd, Sg, / Finite verb — To be or become made know to the public, especially information that was previously know only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.

ἐκ— Out of — Prepositional.

πίστεως — Pistis — faith — Noun, Gen, sg, Fem, / Prepositional object — trust (faith) — strong confidence in, a reliance upon, someone or something — - Faithfulness, reliability, fidelity, commitment; assurance, oath, troth; proof, pledge;

Genitive of source — the declaration comes from God.

Genitive of source — the declaration comes from God.

εἰς πίστιν, — Pistis — Faith — Noun, accu, sg, fm, --- Faith —

(From faith to faith --- By faith to faith--- By faith and it is review to faith.) Continue review and conclusion with faith.

καθὼς γέγραπται- Write — V, Perf, pass, indicative, 3 sg, To be or become set down in writing —

Perf. tense --- One time written in the past but continue to the present time.

ὁ δὲ δίκαιος --- Just, righteous — Adj, nom, sg, masc / Substantival advt — Upright, just, fair, right, fair, equitable —

ἐκ πίστεως — faith — strong confidence in, and reliance upon, someone or something — often with the object of trust understood — faithfulness, reliability, fidelity, commitment; assurance, oath, troth; proof; pledge; trust —

ζήσετα --- Live — Verb, Fut, mid, indicative, 3, sg, — To be or become alive in a transcendent manner; especially as characteristic of resurrected life, or life without sin or with sin subjugated.

It is not about today but in the future we will live by faith with God. it is not now but by faith today we will be with God by faith.

Habakkuk 2:4 NIV

“See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness—

Hab 2:4

By faith from first to last is a fair paraphrase of the Greek ek pisteos eis pistin “by faith unto faith.

Galatians 3:11 NIV

Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”

Righteous, live, faith — deeper significance in light of the coming of Christ, but the general sense of th eoriginal is maintained. Habakkuk and Paul both affirm that life before God demands the wholehearted commitment of the individual.

Daniel 9:24 NIV

“Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume Romans 1:16–18

The just shall live by faith. Just by faith, there is faith justifying us; live by faith, there is faith maintaining us; and so there is a righteousness from faith to faith. Faith is all in all, both in the beginning and progress of a Christian life. It is not from faith to works, as if faith put us into a justified state, and then works preserved and maintained us in it, but it is all along from faith to faith, as 2 Co. 3:18, from glory to glory; it is increasing, continuing, persevering faith, faith pressing forward, and getting ground of unbelief

Preposition — both Greek and Jews are standing in the same level without God.

How do you preach this text to others?

Theme:

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