Episode 278: The natural use of the woman

Romans 1-6

I'd like to come visit you

^1-7 This a letter from Paul about Jesus, the Son of God, who is a descendant of David according to the flesh, to everyone in Rome.

¹⁰ I'm asking you for your assistance so that I can come to visit you.

¹⁵ I'm ready to preach the gospel to you in Rome.

The gospel saves

¹⁶ The gospel of Christ saves everyone who believes in it; first the Jews, then the Greeks.

¹⁷ Because it's written, "Just people live by faith."

Everyone is evil (especially atheists and homosexuals)

¹⁸ The wrath of God is toward all ungodliness and unrighteousness.

¹⁹ God has made his existence known by the things he's created.

²⁰ So those who don't believe in him have no excuse.

²¹ They knew God but didn't glorify or thank him. Their thoughts were useless, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

²² They thought they were wise but became fools.

²³ They made images of people, birds, beasts, and creeping things.

²⁴ So God let them become unclean, by following own their hearts.

²⁵ They cared more for creatures than the creator.

²⁶ So God let them follow their own desires. Their women changed their natural use into something unnatural.

²⁷ And the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, lusted for one another, and getting the punishment they deserved.

²⁸ So God gave them up to their reprobate minds.

²⁹ They became filled with fornication, wickedness, maliciousness, envy, murder.

³⁰ Whisperers, backbiters, God haters, despiteful, proud, inventors of evil things, disobedient children.

³¹ Without understanding, natural affection, unmerciful.

³² People who do things like that should be killed, as should anyone who takes pleasure in their bad behavior.

Don't judge other people

2 ¹ Who are you to judge other people?

When you condemn others, you condemn yourself, because you do the same things they do.

You will be judged according to your deeds

³ Do you think you can escape the judgment of God?

⁶ God will judge everyone according to their deeds.

¹¹ God has no respect for anyone.

¹³ Those who obey the law will be justified.

¹⁶ God will judge your secrets by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

Don't be a hypocrite

²¹ Whatever you tell others to do, you should do yourself.

About circumcision

²⁵ If you are circumcised and you break the law, your circumcision is undone.

²⁶ If you are uncircumcised and you keep the law, you are counted as circumcised.

Everyone is evil (we are justified by faith)

3 ⁵ Is God evil for taking vengeance? (I speak as a man.)

⁶ God forbid! How else could God judge the world?

⁷ And if my lie advances God's truth, then why am I called a sinner?

⁸ I 'm not saying (as some slanderously say I am), "Let's do evil, so good may come from it." Their damnation is just.

¹⁰ There has never been a righteous person.

¹¹ No one understands anything. No one seeks God.

¹² Everyone has gone astray. No one ever does anything good.

¹³ Everyone lies, curses, murders, destroys, causes misery, and avoids peace.

²⁰ Obeying God's law does not make a person acceptable to God.

²³ Everyone has sinned and is beneath God's glory.

²⁸ We are justified by faith, not by obeying God's laws.

³¹ So does our faith destroy God's laws? No, we still must obey them.

Abraham was justified by faith

4 ¹ But what about Abraham?

² If he was justified by his works, then he would deserve glory, not God.

⁵ What a person does doesn't matter to God. Only faith makes a person righteous.

⁶ God judges people without considering their actions.

¹³ God's promise to Abraham wasn't made to him for following God's law. It was made because of Abraham's faith.

Justified with his blood, saved from his wrath

5 ¹ We are justified by faith.

⁹ Since we are justified by his blood, we'll be saved from his wrath.

¹⁰ We are reconciled to God by the death of his son.

¹² Sin entered the world through one man, and death by sin. So death passed to everyone.

¹⁴ Everyone died from Adam to Moses, even those who didn't sin.

¹⁸ Everyone is condemned because of the act of one man.

¹⁹ Everyone became a sinner when one man disobeyed. Then everyone becomes righteous when one man obeys.

²⁰ God created the law so that there'd be lots of offences.

But where there's lots of sin, there's lots of grace.

You're no longer under the law

6 ¹ OK then, should we sin a lot, so there'll be lots of grace?

² No, since we're dead to sin, how can we live in it?

⁴ We were buried with Jesus in baptism.

⁵ We will be raised in his resurrection.

¹⁴ You no longer need to follow the law, because you're now under grace.

²³ The wages of sin is death.