October 2025

READ: Rom. 8:5–8: For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace …  Paul continues to build on

READ: Rom. 8:1–4: … God did by sending His own Son … Rom. 8 is sometimes called the Song of Songs of God’s grace. Paul writes that true believers may be assured that, through faith in Christ, they are delivered from God’s curse. At the same time, the Spirit now works in them so that

READ: Rom. 7:14-26: … For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. … Who will deliver me … I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! … Paul distinguishes on the one hand the old self, which is sinful and does

READ: Rom. 7:1-13: … I would not have known sin except through the law… For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me … Paul now gives more attention to the role of the law in the life of the believer after the coming of Christ. Something radically changed in

READ: Rom. 6:15-23: … But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. The believer is no longer under

READ: Rom. 6:1-14: … to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God… and your members as instruments of righteousness to God … Paul asks in verse 1: “Shall we continue in sin?” In 5:20 he stated that God’s grace proves to be more than abundant when the law brings so many sins to

OCTOBER 15, 2025 – ADAM AND CHRIST READ: Rom. 5:12-21: … For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous … Through Adam’s sin, death came upon all people (vv. 12,15,18,19). But why do we all bear guilt? The LORD punishes only those

READ: Rom. 5:1-11: … But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us … Paul now turns to the consequences of true faith. First of all, there is reconciliation and peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Him there are all kinds of

READ: Rom. 4:16-25: … also for us … who believe in Him … It remains of great importance for us too to keep realizing that faith is no merit, but only grace. Only in that way were and are the promises to Abraham fulfilled, in which Gentiles who come to faith in Christ may also

READ: Rom. 4:1-15: … that he might be the father of all those … who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised … Paul gives further depth. He goes back in time to Abraham, especially because the Jews so often appealed to him. He was the