Paulus letter to the romans against anomin reading

This study argues that Romans, read as a coherent discourse under active covenantcontrols, does not support an anomian theology. Its internal controls begin alreadyin Rom 2:13-15, where not hearers but doers stand in the line of righteousness andthe work of Torah is borne witness in the heart. They continue in Rom 3:31, wherefaith establishes Torah; in Rom 6:14-15, where “not under law” is read as not under the death penalty in direct continuity with Rom 5; in Rom 7:7-14, where Torahis holy and sin is the problem; in Rom 8:1-8, where the weakness lies in flesh andfleshly enmity refuses submission to Yehovah’s Torah; in Rom 10:4-8, where Messiah is Torah’s telos in the matter of righteousness and Paul turns back to Deut 30:6-10; and in Rom 13:8-10, where love appears as Torah’s social form. The reading isgoverned not only by Romans’ own sequence but by the covenant horizon of Isa8:20, Deut 30:6-10, Jer 31:31-33, and Ezek 36:26-27: not Torah removed, but Torahestablished, internalized, and lived from the heart