Mary Reads Scripture

Romans 6:12-14This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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. More resources can be found at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. 13 Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:5-11This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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. More resources can be found at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For he who has died is freed from sin. 8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. 9 For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:1-4This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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. More resources can be found at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!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 him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 5:18-21This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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. More resources can be found at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!18Then as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men. 19For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man’s obedience many will be made righteous. 20Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord._____________________Additional Scripture:Genesis 1:30Genesis 2:7Genesis 2.9Revelation 14:62 Corinthians 5:1-5

Romans 5:15-17This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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. More resources can be found at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!15But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.  16And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.  17For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.______________________Additional Scripture:Matthew 6:26 and 30Matthew 7:11James 1:12-17

Romans 5:12-14This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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. More resources can be found at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!12Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned” 13(For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.  14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.  __________Additional Scripture:Genesis 2:15-17Genesis 3:1-5John 20:24-251 Corinthians 10:1-11

Romans 5:6-11This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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. More resources can be found at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!NASB6For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7For one will hardly die for a righteous person; though perhaps for the good person someone would even dare to die. 8But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. 10For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11And not only this, but we also celebrate in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Romans 5:1-5This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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. More resources can be found at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!1Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.  3And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance;  4and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us._____________________________Additional ScriptureMatthew 10:34-38

Romans 4:19-25This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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. More resources can be found at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!19And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.  20He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,  21and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.  22And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 23Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him,  24but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,  25who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.Additional Scripture Passages:__________________________Colossians 3:5Hebrews 11:122 Corinthians 4:7-13

Romans 4:13-18This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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. More resources can be found at maryreadsscripture.com. Please like, share, and subscribe! Follow me on Instagram @mary_reads_scripture for weekly updates!13For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, 15because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression. 16Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all  17(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed” - God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;  18who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” 

Romans 4:9-12This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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!9Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 10How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. 11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, 12and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised.__________________________Additional Scripture:Genesis 13:14-18Genesis 15:5-6Genesis 17

This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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!Revelations 19:17-1817Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, “Come and gather together for the supper of the great God, 18that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great.”

Romans 4:1-8This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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 then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? 2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.  3For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 4Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. 5But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 6just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: 7“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; 8Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”

Romans 3:27-31This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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!27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.  29Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, 30since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.

Romans 3:21-26This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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!21But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 3:20-23This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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!20Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 3:19-23This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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!19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.  20Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 3:9-18This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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!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. 10As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one;11There is none who understands;There is none who seeks after God.12They have all turned aside;They have together become unprofitable;There is none who does good, no, not one.13Their throat is an open tomb;With their tongues they have practiced deceit;The poison of asps is under their lips;14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.15Their feet are swift to shed blood;16Destruction and misery are in their ways;17And the way of peace they have not known.18There is no fear of God before their eyes.________________Additional Scripture Passages:Psalm 19:3 (Greek Text)Psalm 13:3 (Greek Text)Psalm 5:9 (Hebrew Text)Psalm 10:7 (Hebrew Text)Psalm 140:3 (Hebrew Text)Proverbs 1:16 (Hebrew Text)Isaiah 59:7-8 (Hebrew Text)Psalm 36:1 (Hebrew Text)

This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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!This week on Mary Reads Scripture, I’d like to talk about some things that have been on my heart in terms of my method for discussing Scripture on this podcast. I hope you will find this episode both challenging and encouraging! I will return to my regular discussion of Romans next week. In the meantime, I’d like to offer up this passage from Job for your reflection. If you find this passage challenging, then my encouragement to you is to go and read all of Job. Read it again and again until you are wise, because wisdom is for everyone! Job 1:8-12“8Then the Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?’9So Satan answered the Lord and said, ‘Does Job fear God for nothing?  10Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.  11But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!’12And the Lord said to Satan, ‘Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.’So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.”

Romans 3:9This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.orgJoin 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!“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.”_______________Additional Scripture Passages:Proverbs 19:3 (Septuigent Text)“The folly of man lays waste his ways; and God blames his heart.”Acts 25:6-8“6And when he had remained among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day, sitting on the judgment seat, he (Festus) commanded Paul to be brought.  7When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood about and laid many serious complaints against Paul, which they could not prove,  8while he answered for himself, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything at all.”