When Paul first penned his letter to the house churches of Rome, his purpose was to gain prayerful support for his coming mission to the western Mediterranean. He could not have known that this finely tuned exposition of the gospel would echo for two millennia through church and academy, market and home.

In this revised Bible Speaks Today volume, John Stott expounds Paul's words, themes and arguments and then presses them on the present. The BST series aims at three things at once - faithfulness to the text, relevance to the day, and readability - and this is one of the best-regarded volumes in it.