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Love the Word
by Bill Branks M.A. D.Min.
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
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Romans 8:33-36
Send us Fan Mail Romans 8:33-36 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of...
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Romans 8:29-32
Send us Fan Mail For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also...
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Romans 8:21-24
Send us Fan Mail 21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23 And not only the creation, but we...
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Romans 8:17-20
Send us Fan Mail Romans 8:17-20 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be...
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Romans 8:13-16
Send us Fan Mail Romans 8:13-16 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you...
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Romans 8:9-12
Send us Fan Mail Romans 8:9-12 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because...
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Romans 8:5-8
Send us Fan Mail For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the…
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Romans 8:1-4
Send us Fan Mail Romans 8:1-4 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own…
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Romans 7:22-25
Send us Fan Mail Paul adds, however, that “my members,” his less important extremities, weak and indwelt with sin, wage war against his heart and mind. As believers, we are fundamentally changed. Our core, our heart, soul, and mind are renewed. It is from there that we desire to please the Lord,...
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Romans 17:19-21
Send us Fan Mail Hi welcome to love the word. This is author, Dr. Bill Branks. Our text today is Romans 7:19-21 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I…
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Romans 7:16-18
Send us Fan Mail Romans 7:16-18 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability...
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Romans 7:14-15
Send us Fan Mail Romans 7:14-15 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Please consider supporting the costs of this ministry. Thank you
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The Great Reveal Romans 7:13
Send us Fan Mail Romans 7:13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. Please consider supporting the costs of…
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Growing in Christ
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Invisible Grace
Send us Fan Mail I went to a seminary near Virginia Beach. Knowing I would be buried in endless reading, I promised my wife we could go to the beach on Saturdays so that she could relax and I could read; it was a nice respite for both of us. Please consider supporting the costs of this ministry....
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When Will it Be Enough?
Send us Fan Mail Some people seem to be fueled by praise. They seek it, appreciate it, then forget it. They hunger for compliments and affirmation. They become skilled at squeezing out a compliment from anyone. However, the satisfaction they receive is short-lived, and like a leaky bucket, the...
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Answered Prayer or Coincidence?
Send us Fan Mail Taking a summer break from Romans. We will return to Romans Please consider supporting the costs of this ministry. Thank you
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Romans 7:7-9
Send us Fan Mail Romans 7:7-9 7 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 shall not covet.” 8 But sin, taking opportunity through the...
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Romans 7:1-3
Send us Fan Mail 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 living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law...
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Romans 6:20-23
Send us Fan Mail 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves…
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Romans 6:17-19
Send us Fan Mail 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,” unequivocally claiming:
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Romans 6:14-16
Send us Fan Mail Romans 6:14-16 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves,c you are...
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Romans 6:12-13
Send us Fan Mail Romans 6:12-13 12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as...
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Romans 6:5-11
Send us Fan Mail 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. 6We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin....
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Romans 6:1-4
Send us Fan Mail Romans 6:1-4 1What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were buried therefore with...
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Romans 5:18-21
Send us Fan Mail Romans 5:18-21 18 Therefore, as one trespassed to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. 19 For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.…
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Romans 5:15-17
Send us Fan Mail 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 Christ abounded for many. 16 And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For the...
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Romans 5:12-14
Send us Fan Mail 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. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even...
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Romans 5:6-11
Send us Fan Mail 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.…
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Romans 4:22-25
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Romans 5:1-5
Send us Fan Mail Romans 5:1-5 1Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3Not only that, but we rejoice…
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Romans 4:18-21
Send us Fan Mail 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, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he...
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Romans 4:16-17
Send us Fan Mail 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 father of us all, 17 as it is written, “I have made you the...
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Romans 4:13-15
Send us Fan Mail 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 are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 15 For the law brings...
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Romans 4:9-12
Send us Fan Mail 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 uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him...
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Romans 4:4-8
Send us Fan Mail 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 the one to whom God counts…
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Romans 4:1-3
Send us Fan Mail 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 counted to him as righteousness.”...
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Romans 3:30-31
Send us Fan Mail 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. Support the show
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Romans 3:27-29
Send us Fan Mail Romans 3:27-29 27 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 of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles...
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Romans 3:25-26
Send us Fan Mail Romans 3:25-26 25 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 righteousness at the present time, so that he might be…
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Romans 3:21-24
Send us Fan Mail Romans 3:21-24 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall…
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Romans 3:19-20
Send us Fan Mail Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of...
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Romans 3:9-18
Send us Fan Mail Romans 3:9-18 9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, 10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside; together...
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Romans 3:5-8
Send us Fan Mail Romans 3:5-8 5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) 6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world? 7 But if through my lie God’s truth abounds to…
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Romans 3:1-4
Send us Fan Mail Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though...
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Romans 2:25-29
Send us Fan Mail 25 For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 26 So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? 27 Then he who is…
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Romans 2:17-24
Send us Fan Mail 17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God 18 and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; 19 and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an...
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Romans 2:12-16
Send us Fan Mail 12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14 For when…
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Romans 2:6-11
Send us Fan Mail Romans 2:6-11 6 He will render to each one according to his works: 7to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be...
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Romans 1:29-32
Send us Fan Mail They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless,...
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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
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Bill Branks M.A. D.Min.
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