Romans 15:15-27

In the text before us, Paul comments upon the things which he has written in this epistle. In verse 15, the apostle states that he has written boldly. Paul’s words suggest that he may have written more boldly in this epistle than the manner in which he wrote in his previous epistles.

Romans reads differently than Paul’s epistles to believers at Corinth or Galatia or Ephesus and elsewhere. In Romans, Paul cites passages…