Sixteen chapters and roughly 25 printed sheets containing the most systematic statement of the Christian gospel in Scripture. Romans is short enough to print in minutes and dense enough to study for years.
Download the complete KJV PDF above, open it, and locate Romans — it follows Acts and opens the letters of Paul. Note the PDF page number where chapter 1 begins and where chapter 16 ends. Enter that range in the Print dialog. At 100% scale Romans comes to about 20-25 single-sided sheets, or a dozen double-sided. That is small enough to staple in the corner and carry in a bag. For study printing, set your reader to print at 90% scale with 'Fit to Printable Area' unticked. This shrinks the text block slightly and leaves a wider outer margin, which is where most people want room to write. Print single-sided if you intend to annotate heavily — ink and pencil pressure show through on double-sided pages.
Chapters 1-3 establish the problem. Gentiles stand condemned by the evidence of creation and conscience (1:18-32); Jews stand condemned by the law they possess but do not keep (2:1-3:8). The conclusion is universal: 'there is none righteous, no, not one' (3:10) and 'all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God' (3:23). Chapters 3:21-5:21 present the solution. Righteousness comes through faith in Christ, apart from the law, demonstrated from Abraham (chapter 4) and issuing in peace with God (5:1). Chapters 6-8 address the life that follows. If grace covers sin, does sin matter? Paul's answer runs through baptism into Christ's death (6), the frustration of trying to keep the law in one's own strength (7), and the triumph of life in the Spirit (8), ending with the promise that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Chapters 9-11 address Israel — God's faithfulness to his covenant people and the place of the Gentiles. Chapters 12-16 turn to practice: the living sacrifice (12:1), the body and its gifts, submission to authority (13), Christian liberty and the weaker brother (14-15), and a long list of personal greetings that shows how many people Paul knew by name in a church he had never visited.
A well-known sequence of verses from this letter that lays out the gospel in order. Many people print Romans specifically to mark these. Romans 3:23 — 'For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.' The universal problem. Romans 6:23 — 'For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.' The consequence and the alternative. Romans 5:8 — 'But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.' The initiative is God's, and it precedes any change in us. Romans 10:9-10 — 'That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.' The response. Romans 10:13 — 'For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.' The scope. Some versions add Romans 8:1 — 'There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus' — as the assurance that follows.
Read it through in one sitting first. It takes about an hour and it was written to be received that way — as a single letter read aloud to a gathered congregation, not as 16 separate units. Doing this once before any detailed study prevents the common error of treating famous verses as standalone slogans. Then work through it in sections that match the argument rather than the chapter divisions: 1:1-17 (introduction and thesis), 1:18-3:20 (the problem), 3:21-5:21 (justification), 6-8 (sanctification), 9-11 (Israel), 12-16 (application). Mark the connective words. Romans is built on 'therefore,' 'but,' 'for,' and 'wherefore,' and Paul's logic lives in them. Circling every 'therefore' and asking what it is there for is the single most productive exercise in studying this letter. Expect chapter 7 to be difficult and chapter 8 to be worth the wait. Historically, Romans has been the book that produced conversions and reformations — Augustine, Luther, and Wesley all trace decisive moments to it.
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Sixteen, containing 433 verses and roughly 9,400 words in the King James Version. It is the longest of Paul's letters and is placed first among them in the New Testament because of its length, not its date.
Download the complete KJV PDF from this page, note the PDF page numbers where Romans starts and ends, then print that range or extract it using Organize Pages > Extract in Acrobat, thumbnail dragging in macOS Preview, or 'Save as PDF' with a page range in Chrome.
A sequence of verses from Romans that presents the gospel in order: 3:23 (all have sinned), 6:23 (the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life), 5:8 (Christ died for us while we were still sinners), 10:9-10 (confess and believe), and 10:13 (whosoever shall call shall be saved). Romans 8:1 is often added as assurance.
The gospel, set out systematically. Paul argues that all people — Jew and Gentile — stand guilty before God, that righteousness comes by faith in Christ apart from the law, that the Spirit produces a transformed life, that God remains faithful to Israel, and that all of this reshapes daily conduct and relationships within the church.
About an hour read straight through. It is worth doing that at least once before studying it in parts, because it was written as a single letter to be read aloud to a congregation rather than as sixteen separate units.
Roughly 20-25 single-sided sheets at 100% scale, or about a dozen double-sided. Printing at 90% scale leaves a wider outer margin, which is useful if you plan to annotate heavily.
The apostle Paul, dictated to a scribe named Tertius (Romans 16:22), most likely from Corinth around AD 57 during his third missionary journey. He wrote to a church in Rome he had not yet visited, ahead of a planned journey to Spain.
Yes, though it rewards a slower pace than most letters. Follow the argument's own divisions rather than the chapter breaks — 1:18-3:20, 3:21-5:21, 6-8, 9-11, 12-16 — and pay attention to the connective words, since Paul's reasoning lives in every 'therefore' and 'but'.
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