Mary Reads Scripture

Romans 3:7-9

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“7For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?  8And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just. 9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.”

Romans 3:5-6

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Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read along with me below. For free digital Greek vocabulary cards for each episode, find me at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!

“5But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) 6Certainly not! For then how will God Judge the world?”

Romans 3:1-4

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Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read along with me below. For free digital Greek vocabulary cards for each episode, find me at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!

“1What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? 2Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God. 3For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? 4Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written:

‘That You may be justified in Your words,
And may overcome when You are judged.’”
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Additional Scripture Passage:
Psalm 50 (51)

Romans 2: Bonus Episode 

Scripture is written against you. Scripture is not self-affirming. Its goal is to cancel you, the hearer. If you are affirmed by hearing Scripture then that is your theology and not the voice of the text.

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Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read along with me below. For free digital Greek vocabulary cards for each episode, find me at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!

Scripture references: 
Romans 1 and 2
Acts 17:22-31
Isaiah 48:1-5

Romans 2:25-29

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Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read along with me below. For free digital Greek vocabulary cards for each episode, find me at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!

“25For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?  27And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law?  28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh;  29but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.”

Romans 2:17-24

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Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read along with me below. For free digital Greek vocabulary cards for each episode, find me at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!

“17Indeed you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and make your boast in God, 18and know His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,  19and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,  20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law. 21You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?  22You who say, ‘Do not commit adultery,’ do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?  23You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law?  24For ‘the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,’ as it is written.”
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Additional Scripture passage:
Isaiah 48:1-5

“1Hear this, O house of Jacob,
Who are called by the name of Israel,
And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah;
Who swear by the name of the Lord,
And make mention of the God of Israel,
But not in truth or in righteousness;
2For they call themselves after the holy city,
And lean on the God of Israel;

The Lord of hosts is His name:

3’I have declared the former things from the beginning;
They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it.
Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.
4Because I knew that you were obstinate,
And your neck was an iron sinew,
And your brow bronze,
5Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;
Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,
Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my carved image and my molded image
Have commanded them.’”

Romans 2:12-16

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“12For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law 13(for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; 14for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) 16in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.”
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Additional Scripture passage:

Acts:17:22-31
“22Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; 23for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.

Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: 24God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.  25Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.  26And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,  27so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;  28for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’  29Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.  30Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,  31because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”

Romans 2:8-11

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“8but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,  9tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;  10but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.  11For there is no partiality with God.“

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Additional Scripture Passages:

Luke 4:28-29: “28So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might thrown Him down over the cliff. 30Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.”

Revelation 14:9-10: “9Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand,  10he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.”

Revelation 14:19: “19So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.”

Genesis 2:7: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”

Romans 2:5-8

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Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read along with me below. For free digital Greek vocabulary cards for each episode, find me at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!

“5But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,  6who “will render to each one according to his deeds”:  7eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;  8but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness-”

Romans 2:4-6

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“4Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?  5But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6who will render to each one according to his deeds”.

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Additional Scripture:

Exodus 34:1-9

“1And the Lord said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke. 2So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain.  3And no man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.”

4So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

5Now the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.  6And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,  7keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Jeremiah 31: 29-33

“29In those days they shall say no more: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

30But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. 31“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.  33But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”