Study of Romans 1

1. Read Romans 1. 


2. Who wrote the book of Romans? 


3. Who was this book written to? 


4. What are a few things you know about the times and culture of the
Romans? 












5. Read verse 16. Why was Paul not ashamed of the gospel of Christ?












6. Read verse 17. What are the just supposed to live by? 




7. Write out verse 21. 







8. Verse 21: “when they knew God”. Read Job 12:7-10. This verse is
telling us that just by looking at Creation we can see their is a God!
Read Psalm 19:1. What do the heavens declare? 




9. Verse 21: They/We/Creation, know there is God! But reading further in

the verse, they knew God, (fill in the blanks for the very next words):
“they ___________ him _____ as _________”. Look up the word glorify in
a strong concordance, blue letter bible app, blueletterbible.org, or in a
dictionary and write down the meaning: 



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10. Verse 21: Fill in the blanks: “Because that, when they knew God, they
glorified him not as God, _______________ were ________________:”

Read II Timothy 3:1-5. II Timothy 3:2 tells us that in the last days
people are going to be unthankful. 


11. Verse 21: Fill in the blanks: “Because that, when they knew God, they
glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became _________
in their imaginations, and their __________ heart was ______________.”
Every behavior we have comes from a belief and/or desire. Identify
some of these people’s beliefs and/or desires: 








12. Verse 21: What was the result of their wrong beliefs and/or desires? 








13. Verse 21: What are the opposite side of these beliefs and/or desires? 






14. If we did the opposite of those beliefs/and or desires: Acknowledging

God, Glorifying God, Being thankful to God, and Thinking as God
would have us think, what would be the opposite result, according to
the end of verse 21? 


15. Read verse 23. These people started to worship the creation more than
the Creator! They people cared more for their bodies and beasts than
they did for acknowledging God, glorifying Him, being thankful to Him
and keeping their thoughts under the captivity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Read II Corinthians 10:4, 5. 


16. The darkness of their heart led to serious consequences. Read verses
24-32. List of a few of the characteristics you see prevalent in today’s
society:





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17. Verse 25: What did they change the truth of God into? 




18. Verse 28: They did not like to retain God in what? 

What does this mean? 








19. Looking at question number 16 again, what behaviors can you identify
in your own life and among christians you may know? 




20. This can be discouraging to think that sin is not just prevalent in our
world, but also in our churches and in our own life! So what is the
antidote? Verse 21!

Acknowledge God. (Read Proverbs 3:5-6) Identify some areas in

your life you have not acknowledge God. Write them down and
confess them to God. 


Glorify God. The meaning of glorify is praise, magnify, celebrate,

honor and acknowledge. Read I Corinthians 10:31, Psalm 115:1, and
Psalm 34:3. Glorify also means to give a good opinion of according
to I Corinthians 10:31. What is one way you can praise, magnify,
celebrate, honor and acknowledge God? 



What is one way you can give a good option of God? 


Be Thankful to God. Read I Chronicles 16:34, I Thessalonians 5:18,

Colossians 3:17, Philippians 4:6, Psalm 100:4, and Psalm 107:1.
According to these verses what are 3 things are we are to be
thankful fo? 


Thinking the way God wants us to think. Read Romans 12:1, 2. What
is to transform our thinking? 

Read II Corinthians 10:4, 5. Who is to be in control of our thoughts? 



Read Philippians 4:8. What are we to think about? 



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21. I have heard it said that we live such dull lives. We do retain or keep
God in our knowledge. As a result we are not as enlightened as we
could be and instead live in darkness. We must keep God in our
thoughts, acknowledging Him. As we think about God, talk with Him
and Him with us, through His word, we will naturally want to glorify
Him. Glorifying Him and thinking about His greatness and all He is will
cause us to think about all He does! This should cause us to thank
Him. As we do these things, He will have more control of our thoughts
and as a result our hearts will be filled with wisdom and be
enlightened!