Below is a list of 40 commands that pertain to believers in Romans. These commands must be obeyed. But what compels my obedience is my love and gratitude for Christ.
- Reckon Yourselves to be dead indeed to sin (6.11).
- Do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts (6.12).
- Do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin (6.13a).
- Present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead (6.13b).
- Present your members as instruments of righteousness to God (6.13c).
- Present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness (6.19).
- Do not boast against the branches (Gentiles boasting against Jews) because the root supports you (11.18).
- Do not be haughty, but fear (11.20).
- Consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness (11.22).
- Do not be conformed to this world (12.2a).
- Be transformed by the renewing of your mind (12.2b).
- Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse (12.14).
- Do not be wise in your own opinion (12.16).
- Give place to wrath (12.19).
- If your enemy is hungry, feed him (12.20a).
- If your enemy is thirsty, give him a drink (12.20b).
- Do not be overcome by evil (12.21a).
- Overcome evil with good (12.21b).
- Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities (13.1).
- Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same (13.3).
- If you do evil, be afraid (13.4).
- Render therefore to all their due (13.7).
- Owe no one anything except to love one another (13.8).
- Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts (13.14).
- Receive one who is weak in the faith (14.1).
- Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat (14.3).
- Let not him who does not eat judge him who eats (14.3).
- Let each be fully convinced in his own mind (14.5).
- Let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way (14.13).
- Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died (14.15).
- Do not let your good be spoken of as evil (14.16).
- Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food (14.20).
- Have faith to yourself before God (14.22).
- Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification (15.2).
- Receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God (15.7).
- Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people (15.10).
- Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles (15.11a).
- Laud Him, all you peoples (15.11b).
- Several commands to greet believers in Romans 16.1-16.
- Avoid those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned (16.17).