The following table lines the various outlines up by verses covered. The final selections for my outline are in bold.
Mine |
G-H Study |
Matthew Henry |
Harper |
Wycliffe |
| * Introduction (1:1-1:17) |
The Gospel Exalted (1:1-1:17) |
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* Introduction (1:1-1:17) |
* Opening Affirmations of Paul, the Apostle (1:1-1:17) |
| ** Credentials and Address (1:1-1:7) |
The apostle's commission (1:1-1:7) |
** Salutation (1:1-1:7) |
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| *** From (1:1-1:2) |
** Identity of the Writer Disclosed (1:1) |
| ** The Gospel Identified with Jesus Christ (1:2-1:5) |
| *** Regarding (1:3-1:6) |
| ** Readers Addressed (1:6-1:7) |
| *** To (1:7) |
| ** Testimony and Desire (1:8-1:15) |
Paul's love to the Roman Christians (1:8-1:15) |
** Prayer of thanksgiving (1:8-1:15) except (1:8-1:10) |
** Paul's Interest in the Romans Part of a Larger Concert (1:8-1:15) |
| *** Testimony (1:8) |
*** Desire (1:9-1:15)
** Desire to Visit (1:11-1:15) |
| ** Theme: Unity of Salvation by Faith (1:16-1:17) |
Paul's discourse on justification (1:16-1:18) |
** Theme (1:16-1:17) |
** Nature and Content of the Gospel Summarized (1:16-1:17) |
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* Righteousness- The key to Man's Relationship to God (1:18-8:39) |
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** Righteousness as the Necessary Status of Men before God (1:18-5:21) |
| * Justice: God is Justified (1:18-2:16) |
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* The world's need of God (1:18-3:20) |
*** Man's Failure To Attain Righteousness (1:18-3:20) |
| ** God's Evidence Leaves No Excuse (1:18-1:23) |
Unbelief and It's Consequences (1:18-1:32) |
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** The Gentiles: guilty before God (1:18-1:32) |
**** Default of the Gentiles (1:18-1:32) |
| The idolatry of the Gentiles (1:19-1:32) |
| ** Man's Evidence Shows Impurity of Heart (1:24-1:32) |
| *** The Heart is Revealed by Actions (1:24-1:25) |
| *** Sexual Sins Come of Rejecting God (1:26-1:27) |
| *** Sin Is Progressive and Loves Company (1:28-1:32) |
| ** God's Judgements vs. Man's Judgements (2:1-2:16) |
The Impartiality of God (2:1-2:16) |
Equity of divine government (2:1-2:16) |
** God's principles of judgement (2:1-2:16) |
**** Default of the Man Who Judges in Contrast with God's Righteous Judgement (2:1-2:16) |
| *** Man Judges Himself in Judging Others (2:1-2:3) |
| *** God's Judgements Will Be Just to All (2:4-2:11) |
| *** God Judges in Accord With Instruction Justly (2:12-2:16) |
| * The Law: Faith/Spirit vs. Works/Letter (2:17-5:11) |
The Jew Is Condemned by the Law (2:17-2:29) |
The pretensions of the Jews (2:17-2:29) |
** The Jews: guilty before God (2:17-3:8) |
**** Default of the Jew (2:17-2:29) |
| ** Knowing the Law isn't vs. Doing the Law (2:17-2:2927) |
| *** Who Knows the Law Also Breaks the Law Knowingly (2:17-2:24) |
| *** Circumcision Is Not Complete Obedience (2:25-2:27) |
| *** By the Spirit Matters More , not the Than Letter, Heart Than Flesh (2:28-2:29) |
| ** Some Objections Answered (3:1-3:8) |
All the World Guilty (3:1-3:20) |
The depravity of the Jews and Gentiles (3:1-3:18) |
**** Objections to Paul's Teaching on Man's Default (3:1-3:8) |
| *** Jews Were Entrusted With Preserving God's Word (3:1-3:2) |
| *** God's Faithfulness Remains In Spite of Unbelief (3:3-3:4) |
| *** God's Righteousness Does Not Depend on Ours (3:5-3:8) |
| ** All Are Sinful (3:9-3:18) |
** The world: guilty before God (3:9-3:20) |
**** Default of All Mankind Before God (3:9-3:20) |
| ** The Law Exposes Our Sinfulness (3:19-3:20) |
Justification by Faith (3:19-3:31) |
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* Justification by faith alone (3:21-8:39) |
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| ** Faith Alone Justifies (3:21-3:3031) |
Justification by Faith (3:21-3:31) |
** The means of salvation: faith (3:21-3:31) |
*** Righteousness Attained by Faith, Not by Legalistic Works (3:21-3:31) |
| *** Justification Is a Gift of God (3:21-3:24) |
| *** Justification Is For All Who Have Faith In Christ (3:25-3:26) |
| *** Faith Justifies What Works Cannot (3:27-3:30) |
| ** Faith Confirms the Law (3:31) |
| ** Abraham's Example Righteousness Preceded both Works and Law (4:1-4:25) |
Justification by Faith Evidenced in the Old Testament (4:1-4:25) |
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** The Old Testament proof: Abraham saved by faith (4:1-4:25) |
*** Righteousness by Faith in the Life of Abraham (4:1-4:25) |
| *** Wages Are Due the Worker (4:1-4:4) |
The case of Abraham (4:1-4:8) |
**** His Righteousness Attained by Faith Not by Works (4:1-4:8) |
| *** Wages Are a Gift to the Non Worker (4:5-4:8) |
| *** Abraham's Wages Faith Preceded the Sign Circumcision (4:9-4:12) |
The case of Abraham (4:9-4:17a) |
**** Abraham Made the Father of All Who Believe by His Faith Prior to Circumcision (4:9-4:12) |
| *** The Promise Was By Faith Not Law (4:13-4:17) |
****Realization of the Promise Brought by Faith, Not by Law (4:13-4:16) |
| The case of Abraham (4:17b-4:22) |
**** God, the Master of Death, the Object of Faith for Abraham and Christian (4:17-4:25) |
| *** In Faith and Hope Abraham Persevered in Belief (4:18-4:2225) |
| *** This Was For Our Assurance (4:23-4:25) |
The case of Abraham (4:23-4:25) |
| ** Faith Reconciles Us to God (5:1-5:11) |
Results of Justification (5:1-5:21) |
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** The results of justification by faith (5:1-5:11) |
*** Effects of Righteousness by Faith upon the Recipients (5:1-5:11) |
| *** Faith Leads to Grace (5:1-5:5) |
Justification and its effects (5:1-5:5) |
| *** Justified While Enemies, Saved Once Reconciled (5:6-5:11) |
The first and second Adam (5:6-5:21) |
| * Faith: Grace vs. Sin (5:12-6:23) |
** Christ the ground of our salvation (5:12-5:21) |
*** Effects of Adam's Disobedience and Christ's Obedience (5:12-5:21) |
| ** The Two Adams (5:12-5:2119) |
| *** In Adam's Sin, Death to All (5:12-5:14) |
| *** One Act Condemned All, One Act Justifies All (5:15-5:19) |
| *** The Law Increased Our Need for Grace (5:20-6:2) |
** The believer's life in Christ (6:1-8:39) |
** Righteousness as the Manner of Christian Living Before God (6:1-8:39) |
| Believers Are Dead to Sin, Alive to God (6:1-6:23) |
On sanctification (6:1-6:23) |
*** United in His death (6:1-6:14) |
*** Fallacy of Sinning That Grace Might Abound (6:1-6:14) |
| ** Unity With Christ Ends Sin (6:3-6:11) |
| *** United in His Death Dying with Christ, We Die to Sin (6:3-6:7) |
| *** United in His Life Freed of Sin, We Rise With Christ to Godly Life (6:8-6:11) |
| ** Grace Ends Sin's Mastery (6:12-6:23) |
| *** Sin No Longer Rules Us (6:12-6:16) |
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*** Fallacy of Sinning because Believers Are Under Grace, Not Law (6:15-7:6) |
| *** Slaves to righteousness (6:15-6:23) |
**** Allegiance, Fruit, Destiny (6:15-6:23) |
| *** Freed to of the Law, We Now Serve Righteousness (6:17-6:23) |
| * The Law Under Grace: The Work of Christ (7:1-7:14) |
Believers United to Christ (7:1-7:13) |
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| ** The Dead are Not Bound by the Law (7:1-7:6) |
Observations respecting the law (7:1-7:6) |
*** Married to Christ (7:1-7:6) |
**** Annulment and New Alignment Caused by Death (7:1-7:6) |
| *** The Law Holds So Long as There is Life (7:1-7:3) |
| *** In Christ We Have Died, and So are Free of the Law (7:4-7:6) |
| ** The Law Exposes Sin (7:7-7:14) |
Excellency of the law (7:7-7:14a) |
*** The Christian Struggle (7:7-7:25) |
*** Questions Raised by the Struggle Against Sin (7:7-7:25) |
| The Conflict of Two Natures (7:14-7:25) |
| *** Sin Comes to Life Through the Law (7:7-7:11) |
**** Is the Law Sin? (7:7-7:12) |
| *** Sin Did Not Make the Law Sinful (7:12-7:14) |
| **** Is that which is good the cause of death? (7:13-7:14) |
| * Spiritual vs. Physical: The Work of the Spirit (7:15-8:30) |
| ** The Spirit Vs. the Flesh (7:15-7:25) |
The believer's conflict (7:14b-7:25) |
How can the conflict be resolved (7:15-7:25) |
| ** Spiritual Law Succeeds Where Mosaic Law Failed (8:1-8:11) |
Deliverance from Bondage (8:1-8:25) |
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*** Life in Spirit (8:1-8:17) |
*** Victory Through the Spirit Connected with the Purpose and Action of God (8:1-8:39) |
*** In Christ, Mosaic Law is Satisfied (8:1-8:5)
*** Christ Fulfilled the Law's Demands (8:1-8:4) |
The believer's privileges (8:1-8:9) |
**** Holiness a possibility (8:1-8:11) |
**** Deliverance from Sin and Death by the Activity of Father, Son and Spirit (8:1-8:4) |
| **** The Mind-set of the Flesh Versus That of the Spirit (8:5-8:13) |
| *** Those Focused on the Fleshly Minds Cannot Satisfy God (8:6-8:8) |
*** Those Indwelt by Christ are Renewed Even in Body
*** The Spirit Renews (8:9-8:11) |
| The believer's privileges (8:10-8:16) |
| ** Spiritual Adoption as Children of God (8:12-8:17) |
**** Holiness a duty (8:12-8:17) |
| **** Guidance and Witness of the Spirit (8:1412-8:17) |
| The believer's privileges (8:17-8:25) |
| ** Creation Longs for Spiritual Completion (8:18-8:25) |
*** The future glory (8:18-8:39) |
**** Completion and Redemption Awaited by Creation and Believers Alike (8:18-8:25) |
| *** All of Creation Subjected to Corruption (8:18-8:21) |
**** A sure hope (8:18-8:25) |
| *** All of Creation Perseveres in Hope of Redemption (8:22-8:25) |
| ** The Spirit Intercedes for Us (8:26-8:27) |
Our Victory in Christ (8:26-8:39) |
The believer's privileges (8:26-8:28) |
**** A sure help (8:26-8:30) |
**** Intercessory Ministry of the Spirit (8:26-8:27) |
| * Chosen: The Work of God (8:28-9:21) |
**** Purpose of God for Those Loving Him (8:28-8:30) |
| ** It's God's Call (8:28-8:39) |
| *** He Chose Us, He Completes Us (8:28-8:30) |
| The believer's privileges (8:29-8:30) |
| *** He Justifies Us, None Can Condemn Us (8:31-8:36) |
The believer's triumph (8:31-8:39) |
**** A certain salvation (8:31-8:39) |
**** Triumph of Believers over All Opposition (8:31-8:39) |
| *** What He Has Joined None Can Separate (8:37-8:39) |
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* Jew and Gentile in the plan of God (9:1-11:36) |
* Israel and the Gentiles in the Plan of God (9:1-11:36) |
| ** Paul Desires to See Physical Israel Made Spiritually Israel (9:1-9:5) |
Solicitude for Israel (9:1-9:33) |
Paul's anxiety for the Jews (9:1-9:5) |
** Paul's sorrow for Israel (9:1-9:5) |
** Concern of Paul for His Own People, Israel (9:1-9:5) |
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** God Free, Righteous, and Sovereign in His Dealing with Israel and with All Men (9:6-9:29) |
| ** Israel is Defined by God's Promise, Not Man's Works (9:6-9:13) |
The divine sovereignty (9:6-9:13) |
** The unbelief of the Jew is not God's fault (9:6-9:33) |
*** God's Choice of Isaac Rather Than the Other Sons of Abraham (9:6-9:9) |
| *** God's Choice of Jacob Rather Than Esau (9:10-9:13) |
| ** Salvation is Purely by God's Choice Alone (9:14-9:2124) |
The divine sovereignty (9:14-9:24) |
*** God's Mercy Toward Israel and Hardening of Pharaoh (9:14-9:18) |
| *** God's Control Over Vessels of Wrath and Mercy (9:19-9:24) |
| * Jew and Gentile: Unity of Destiny (9:2225-11:36) |
| ** God Chooses Both Jew and Gentile (9:2225-9:29) |
| Conversion of the Gentiles (9:25-9:29) |
*** Untitled (9:25-9:29) |
| ** Faith Succeeds Where Works Fail Faith Attained What Works Could Not (9:30-10:15) |
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** Failure of Israel and Success of the Gentiles (9:30-10:21) |
| *** Faith Makes Righteous, Works Could Not (9:30-9:33) |
Conversion of the Gentiles (9:30-9:33) |
*** Attainment by Gentiles of What Israel Missed (9:30-9:33) |
| *** The Jews Have Zeal, But Lack Knowledge (10:1-10:3) |
The Word of Faith Brings Salvation (10:1-10:21) |
Paul's discourse of righteousness (10:1-10:11) |
** God's rejection the fault of the Jews (10:1-10:21) |
*** Israel's Ignorance of God's Righteousness (10:1-10:3) |
| *** The Confession of Faith Brings Salvation (10:4-10:1113) |
*** Connection Between the Righteousness of Faith and the Object of Faith (10:4-10:15) |
| *** Faith and Knowledge Requires Teaching (10:1214-10:15) |
Importance of preaching the gospel (10:12-10:21) |
| ** Having Heard God, Israel is Without Excuse (10:16-10:21) |
*** Good Tidings Rejected (10:16-10:21) |
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** Israel's rejection not final (11:1-11:36) |
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| ** God Hasn't Rejected Israel, Israel Rejected Him (11:1-11:10) |
Israel is Not Cast Away (11:1-11:36) |
The state of the Jews and Gentiles (11:1-11:32) |
*** The remnant (11:1-11:10) |
** Situation of Israel in Paul's Day (11:1-11:10) |
| *** He God Has Always Preserved a Remnant (11:1-11:5) |
| *** Grace Has Obtained What Most Couldn't See (11:6-11:10) |
| ** The Jews Can be Restored to God's Grace (11:11-11:24) |
*** Israel's future salvation (11:11-11:32) |
** Israel's Prospects for the Future (11:11-11:36) |
| *** The Gentiles Are God's Tool to Restore Israel (11:11-11:16) |
*** Degree of Blessing from Israel's Fall and Fullness (11:11-11:15) |
| *** Individual Gentile's Lack of Grounds for Boasting (11:16-11:21) |
| *** No Room For Pride This Does Not Allow Pride in the Gentile (11:17-11:21) |
| *** God Can Restore (11:22-11:24) |
*** Goodness and Severity of God Disclosed by His Response to Belief and Unbelief (11:22-11:24) |
| ** God Will Restore Have Mercy on the Jews (11:25-11:32) |
*** Salvation for the People of Israel (11:25-11:27) |
| *** God's Mercy to All Magnified by His Action in History (11:28-11:32) |
| ** His Ways Are Above Our Own (11:33-11:36) |
The divine sovereignty (11:33-11:36) |
*** Paul's concluding doxology (11:33-11:36) |
*** Excellence and Glory of God- the Source, Sustainer, and Goal of All Things (11:33-11:36) |
| * The Demands of Grace (12:1-13:14) |
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* Ethical teaching (12:1-15:13) |
* Attitude and Conduct Expected of Christians at Rome (12:1-15:13) |
| ** Grace Demands Our Transformation (12:1-12:2) |
Dedicated Service (12:1-12:21) |
Consecration to God (12:1-12:21) |
** The call to full surrender (12:1-12:2) |
** Consecration of Body and Mind (12:1-12:2) |
| ** Grace Demands Unity and Humility (12:3-12:1815) |
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| *** One Body Exercising Different Gifts (12:3-12:8) |
** The use of God's gifts (12:3-12:8) |
** Humility in the use of God's Gifts (12:3-12:8) |
| *** The Rule of Unity (12:9-12:15) |
** Christian conduct in personal relationships (12:9-12:21) |
** Character Traits to be exemplified (12:9-12:21) |
| *** The Rule of Humility (12:16-12:18) |
| ** Grace Demands Subjection to Authority (12:19-13:7) |
| *** Vengeance Subject to God (12:19-12:21) |
| *** Civil To Authority is Established by God (13:1-13:7) |
Be Subject to Government (13:1-13:14) |
Obedience to magistrates enforced (13:1-13:6) |
** Christian conduct in relation to the state (13:1-13:7) |
** Submission to Governmental Authorities to be Accompanied by a Loving, Upright Manner of Life (13:1-13:14) |
| Justice and charity (13:7-13:10) |
| ** Grace Demands Love (13:8-13:10) |
** The call to love (13:8-13:10) |
| ** Grace Demands Good Behavior (13:11-13:14) |
The Christian directory (13:11-13:14) |
** Hope, the Christian motivation (13:11-13:14) |
| * Grace and Freedom (14:1-15:13) |
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** The Christian and matters of conscience (14:1-15:13) |
** Tolerance Necessary for Those with Strong and Weak Consciences (14:1-15:13) |
| ** Godly Men May Differ in Habits (14:1-14:12) |
Principles of Conscience (14:1-14:23) |
Exhortations to candor (14:1-14:23) |
*** Not to judge (14:1-14:12) |
*** Difference of Opinion over Food or Special Days (14:1-14:6) |
| *** Judgement by the Lord, Not by One's Brother (14:7-14:12) |
| ** Our Freedom Must Not Be at a Brother's Cost (14:13-14:23) |
*** Not to be a stumbling block (14:13-14:23) |
*** Removal of Stumbling blocks (14:13-14:23) |
| ** Those Strong in Faith Ought to Support the Weaker (15:1-15:4) |
Self-denial on Behalf of Others (15:1-15:33) |
Tenderness and generosity (15:1-15:4) |
*** To follow Christ's example (15:1-15:13) |
*** The Strong to Help the Weak Rather Than Please Themselves (15:1-15:3) |
| *** Glory Brought to God by Endurance, Consolation, and Harmony (15:4-15:6) |
| ** Christ Died All, for Jew and Gentile, So They All Ought to Be United (15:5-15:13) |
Christian unity (15:5-15:6) |
| Christian unity (15:7-15:12) |
*** Ministry of Christ Designed for Both Jew and Gentile (15:7-15:13) |
| The God of hope (15:13) |
| * Summary/Conclusion (15:14-16:27) |
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* Conclusion and postscript (15:14-16:27) |
* Items of Personal Interest and Care for the Readers (15:14-16:27) |
| ** Summary (15:14-15:33) |
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| *** Purpose Was to Remind and Reinforce (15:14-15:21) |
Paul commends the brethren (15:14-15:16) |
** Paul's reasons for writing (15:14-15:21) |
* Paul's Reason for Writing Boldly to Mature Readers (15:14-15:16) |
| The apostle's labors (15:17-15:21) |
* Supernatural Confirmation of Paul's Pioneer Missionary Work (15:17-15:21) |
| *** Paul Will Come When Local Work is Done (15:22-15:29) |
The apostle's labors (15:22-15:29) |
** Paul's future plans (15:22-15:33) |
** Travel Plans: Jerusalem, Rome, and Spain (15:22-15:29) |
| *** Call For Prayer Request (15:30-15:33) |
Paul desires the church's prayers (15:30-15:33) |
** Specific Requests for Prayer (15:30-15:33) |
| ** Conclusion (16:1-16:27) |
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| *** Phoebe Commended to Their Care (16:1-16:2) |
Greetings and Love Expressed (16:1-16:27) |
Apostolic salutations (16:1-16:16) |
** Commendations and greetings (16:1-16:24) |
** Recommendation of Phoebe (16:1-16:2) |
| *** Paul sends Personal Greetings (16:3-16:16) |
** Particular Greetings to Individuals and Groups (16:3-16:16) |
| *** Warning Against Dissenters (16:17-16:20) |
Apostolic salutations (16:17-16:20) |
** Dangerous Character of Those Who Teach False Doctrine (16:17-16:20) |
| *** Greetings From Co-Workers (16:21-16:24) |
Apostolic salutations (16:21-16:24) |
** Greetings from Paul's Associates in Corinth (16:21-16:23) |
| *** Closing Doxology (16:25-16:27) |
The apostle's doxology (16:25-16:27) |
** doxology (16:25-16:27) |
** Establishment of Believers by the Sovereign God of History (16:25-16:27) |
