Love the Word
Short 5-minute verse by verse studies to encourage you from truths in Scripture. We aim to bring hope and encouragement to you today! Brief but not superficial!
Dr. Bill Branks
Episodes
96 episodes
Romans 7:7-9
Romans 7:7-97 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You...
Romans 7:1-3
1. Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is...
Romans 6:20-23
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21But what fruit were...
Romans 6:17-19
In 1979 Bob Dylan was in the midst of a faith quest. During this time, he deeply explored and adopted many Christian principles before returning later to Judaism. In the midst of his search, he recorded the song, “Gotta Serve Somebody,” unequiv...
Romans 6:14-16
Romans 6:14-1614 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 15...
Romans 6:12-13
Romans 6:12-1312Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13
Romans 6:5-11
5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. <...
Romans 6:1-4
Romans 6:1-41What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2By no m...
Romans 5:18-21
Romans 5:18-2118 Therefore, as one trespassed to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Romans 5:15-17
15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one-man Jesus Chri...
Romans 5:12-14
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Ye...
Romans 5:6-11
6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a ri...
Romans 5:1-5
Romans 5:1-51Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. <...
Romans 4:18-21
18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” 19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body...
Romans 4:16-17
16 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the fathe...
Romans 4:13-15
13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if it is the adherents of the law who ar...
Romans 4:9-12
How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still unc...
Romans 4:4-8
Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing of th...
Romans 4:1-3
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was ...
Romans 3:30-31
Romans 3:30-31 since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Romans 3:27-29
Romans 3:27-2927 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. 29 Or is God the God ...
Romans 3:25-26
Romans 3:25-2625 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance, he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousne...