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Paul's Difficult Passages Scripture Studies
Browse curated studies for passages in Romans through Philemon that are often separated from Torah, the Prophets, and immediate context.
Focused passage studies
- Romans 3:31: Does Faith Establish or Void the Law?
Examine Romans 3:27-31 and Paul's direct statement that faith does not make the law void but establishes it. - Romans 6:14: What Does “Not Under the Law, but Under Grace” Mean?
Read Romans 6:1-15 to test whether grace abolishes the law or delivers believers from sin's dominion. - Romans 7:7: Is the Law Sin?
Read Romans 7:7-13 and Paul's answer that the law reveals sin while the commandment remains holy, just, and good. - Romans 10:4: Is Messiah the End of the Law?
Read Romans 10:1-4 in context and test whether end means cancellation or the goal toward which the law points. - Romans 14: Days, Food, Conscience, and Immediate Context
Study Romans 14:1-6 and 13-23 without turning disputable eating, common food, or personal esteem into a reversal of Sabbath and clean-food Scripture. - Colossians 2:14: What Was Nailed to the Stake?
Read Colossians 2:13-15 and distinguish the handwriting against us from YAHUAH's righteous instruction. - Colossians 2:16: Sabbath, Feast Days, and “Let No Man Judge You”
Read Colossians 2:16-17 in context and test whether Paul's instruction protects believers from human judgment rather than abolishing appointed times. - Galatians 3:10-13: The Curse of the Law Versus Obedience
Read Galatians 3:10-14 and distinguish the curse for transgression from loving obedience to YAHUAH. - Galatians 4:9-10: Days, Months, Times, and Years
Read Galatians 4:8-11 and identify the former pagan bondage behind Paul's warning about returning to weak and beggarly elements. - Ephesians 2:15: The Law of Commandments in Ordinances
Read Ephesians 2:11-19 and examine the hostility, ordinances, and reconciliation of formerly alienated Gentiles in one body. - 1 Timothy 4:1-5: Foods Created to Be Received
Read 1 Timothy 4:1-5 and test the difference between forbidding Scripture-defined foods and redefining every creature as food.
Words in Context
- Romans 3:20 — The Law Reveals Sin; It Does Not Become Sin
- Romans 3:21 — Without the Law Does Not Mean Against the Law
- Romans 3:28 — Justification Without Boasting Does Not Void Obedience
- Romans 4:15 — Wrath Comes Through Transgression, Not Through Righteous Instruction
- Romans 5:20 — The Law Exposes Sin So Grace Can Rescue
- Romans 6:14 — Not Under Law Means Not Under Sin's Dominion
- Romans 6:15 — Grace Is Not Permission to Sin
- Romans 7:4 — Dead to the Law Does Not Mean Alive to Lawlessness
- Romans 7:6 — Newness of Spirit Does Not Cancel the Written Witness
- Romans 8:2 — The Spirit Frees From Sin and Death
- Romans 10:4 — End Means Goal, Not Cancellation
- Romans 13:8 — Love Fulfills the Law by Doing It Rightly
- Romans 13:10 — Love Does No Harm Because It Walks in Commandment Truth
- Romans 14:2 — Romans 14 Is Not Permission to Eat the Unclean
- Romans 14:3 — Disputable Eating Is Not a Clean/Unclean Reversal
- Romans 14:5 — Romans 14 Is Not a Sabbath Abolition Text
- Romans 14:6 — Esteeming a Day Does Not Replace YAHUAH's Appointed Time
- Romans 14:14 — Common Is Not the Same as Biblically Unclean
- Romans 14:17 — Kingdom Priorities Do Not Erase Food Boundaries
- Romans 14:20 — All Things Pure Must Stay Within Scripture's Definitions
- 1 Corinthians 5:8 — Let Us Keep the Feast Is Not an Anti-Feast Text
- 1 Corinthians 6:12 — All Things Lawful Is Not Lawlessness
- 1 Corinthians 8:8 — Idol-Meat Questions Do Not Redefine Clean Food
- 1 Corinthians 9:20 — Paul's Mission Strategy Did Not Abandon Torah
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