Paul's letter to the Romans is a treatise on man's sin, God's plan of redemption through Christ, and the Christian life. He argues like a lawyer presenting his case before a judge. Romans covers vast expanses of doctrine and brings it into practical focus for our lives.

Run length: 58 minutes
Reader: Dale McConachie
Translation: New American Standard Bible®
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1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation

From Matthew Henry's Commentary:

"This epistle to the Romans is placed first, not because of the priority of its date, but because of the superlative excellency of the epistle, it being one of the longest and fullest of all, and perhaps because of the dignity of the place to which it is written."

"The great mysteries treated of in this epistle must needs produce in this, as in other writings of Paul, many things dark and hard to be understood (II Peter 3:16). The method of this (as of several other of the epistles) is observable; the former part of it doctrinal, in the first eleven chapters; the latter part practical, in the last five: to inform the judgment and to reform the life. And the best way to understand the truths explained in the former part is to abide and abound in the practice of the duties prescribed in the latter part; for, if any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine (John 7:17)."