{"id":246,"date":"2007-11-15T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2022-03-08T10:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:20:03","slug":"romans-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Romans 1:7"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"justify\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Saint = called of God, holy (set apart to God), chosen, elect. The word is <u>always<\/u> used collectively in the New Testament to refer to those whose righteousness is Christ.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Paul frequently says <em>grace <u>and<\/u> peace<\/em>. &#8220;Grace&#8221; was a traditional Greek greeting, &#8220;peace&#8221; was a Hebrew greeting. This grace and peace comes from the Father and the Son, but <em>by<\/em> the Spirit. We <u>deserve<\/u> punishment, but we <u>receive<\/u> grace and peace.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Beloved of God \u2014 God loves the world, but the called are His beloved whom He loves with a special love.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Saint = called of God, holy (set apart to God), chosen, elect. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=246\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6293,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/6293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}