The Apostle Paul and His Love for the People At the Church at Rome, With Paul’s Warnings for the Future

Paul the Apostle, His Love for His Believers, and His Plans to Visit Rome

(Romans 15, verses 14–33; Romans 16)

Today I will complete the study of the book of Romans that I started some weeks ago. I will conclude this series starting with the end of chapter 15 through all of chapter 16. The following quotes from Scripture are a summary of the apostle Paul’s closing thoughts as he finished up his letter to the early Roman church. I will begin by taking up where I left off last week in chapter 15, beginning at verse 14.

“I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another. I have written you quite boldly on some points, as if to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles with the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.” (Romans 15: verses 14–16)

“I myself am convinced … that you yourselves are full of goodness…”. As it was with the apostle Paul when he wrote this letter to the early Christian church…