Its second chapter suggests that circumcision of the heart is more important than circumcision of the flesh, and condemns hypocrisy among Jews who praise traditional laws but do not obey them.
A woman of the church at Cenchreae named Phoebe is praised at the beginning of one chapter, which also mentions the author's kinsmen Herodian and Aristobulus. Its second chapter suggests that circumcision of the heart is more important than circumcision of the flesh, and condemns hypocrisy among Jews who praise traditional laws but do not obey them. The scribe Tertius famously extends his greetings at the end of it, which declares that "all have sinned, being short of God's glory, being justified freely by his grace." FTP, identify this longest Pauline letter that declares, "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life" addressed to residents of a certain Italian city.
A woman of the church at Cenchreae named Phoebe is praised at the beginning of one chapter, which also mentions the author's kinsmen Herodian and Aristobulus.
Epistle to the {Romans}