Romans
Romans is Paul's fullest statement of the gospel, written to a church he had not yet visited, and it has repeatedly reshaped the history of the church. With the sweep of a great argument it moves from the universal reach of sin to justification by faith, from union with Christ to life in the Spirit, from anguish over Israel to doxology over the depths of God's wisdom. The famous eighth chapter rises to the assurance that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Then, characteristically, Paul turns theology into life: bodies offered as living sacrifices, love owed to all.
The apostle Paul, writing from Corinth through his scribe Tertius
AD 55–58
House churches of Jewish and Gentile believers in Rome
To set out the gospel of God's righteousness revealed in Christ and to unite Jewish and Gentile believers in one faith.