First Day
Read the Introduction Lesson Notes
Second Day
Read Romans 1:1-7
Romans 1:1-7
[1] From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God. [2] This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, [3] concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh, [4] who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord. [5] Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name. [6] You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ. [7] To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! (NET)
Third Day
Read Romans 1:8-10
Romans 1:8-10
[8] First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. [9] For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you, [10] and I always ask in my prayers if, perhaps now at last, I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God. (NET)
Question 7a
Acts 21:33-34
[33] Then the commanding officer came up and arrested him and ordered him to be tied up with two chains; he then asked who he was and what he had done. [34] But some in the crowd shouted one thing, and others something else, and when the commanding officer was unable to find out the truth because of the disturbance, he ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks. (NET)
Acts 22:25-29
[25] When they had stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing nearby, “Is it legal for you to lash a man who is a Roman citizen without a proper trial?” [26] When the centurion heard this, he went to the commanding officer and reported it, saying, “What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.” [27] So the commanding officer came and asked Paul, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” He replied, “Yes.” [28] The commanding officer answered, “I acquired this citizenship with a large sum of money.” “But I was even born a citizen,” Paul replied. [29] Then those who were about to interrogate him stayed away from him, and the commanding officer was frightened when he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him tied up. (NET)
Acts 28:14-16
[14] There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome. [15] The brothers from there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. When he saw them, Paul thanked God and took courage. [16] When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him. (NET)
Fourth Day
Read Romans 1:11-15
Romans 1:11-15
[11] For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you, [12] that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, both yours and mine. [13] I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles. [14] I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. [15] Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome. (NET)
Question 10
Acts 28:11-16
[11] After three months we put out to sea in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island and had the “Heavenly Twins” as its figurehead. [12] We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days. [13] From there we cast off and arrived at Rhegium, and after one day a south wind sprang up and on the second day we came to Puteoli. [14] There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome. [15] The brothers from there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. When he saw them, Paul thanked God and took courage. [16] When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him. (NET)
Question 11a
Acts 26:11-20
[11] I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.
[12] “While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests, [13] about noon along the road, Your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around me and those traveling with me. [14] When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself by kicking against the goads.’ [15] So I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord replied, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. [16] But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this reason, to designate you in advance as a servant and witness to the things you have seen and to the things in which I will appear to you. [17] I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you [18] to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
[19] “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, [20] but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with repentance. (NET)
Fifth Day
Read Romans 1:16-17
Romans 1:16-17
[16] For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. [17] For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.” (NET)
Question 14a
Philippians 3:4-9
[4] —though mine, too, are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more: [5] I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee. [6] In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless. [7] But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ. [8] More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things —indeed, I regard them as dung!—that I may gain Christ [9] and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness—a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness. (NET)
Sixth Day
Review Romans 1:1-17
Romans 1:1-17
[1] From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God. [2] This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, [3] concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh, [4] who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord. [5] Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name. [6] You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ. [7] To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
[8] First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. [9] For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you, [10] and I always ask in my prayers if, perhaps now at last, I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God. [11] For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you, [12] that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, both yours and mine. [13] I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles. [14] I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. [15] Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.
[16] For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. [17] For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.” (NET)