Authorship and the text-critical issues in chapter 16
Language, style, and intertextuality
1.18-32 : the unbearable likeness
2.1-16 : critique of a judgmental Gentile hypocrite
2.17-3.20 : censoring a censorious Jewish teacher
3.21-31 : the manifestation of the righteousness of God apart from the law
4.1-25 : Abraham as forefather of all the "righteous" by faith
5.1-11 : the results of rectification
5.12-21 : from first Adam to last (a comparison)
Shall sin, death, and the law continue now that Christ has come?
6.1-14 : shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
6.15-7.6 : slaves to righteousness
7.7-13 : retelling Adam's tale
7.14-25 : Adam's lost race
8.1-17 : life in the spirit; that was then, this is now
8.18-39 : life in Christ in glory
9.1-11.36 : God's justice and Israel's future
12.1-21 : living sacrifices and loving service
13.1-14 : taxing situations and the debt of love
14.1-15.13 : the weak and the strong and what goes wrong
15.14-21 : the knowledge and apostle of the Gentiles
15.22-33 : travel plans, apostolic parousia, peroratio
