The Essence and Benefit of the Law

After having told us of God's righteousness, His justice-ness revealed from faith to faith (1:17), His just wrath revealed from heaven against sin (1:18), explaining the radical depravity of sinful, fallen man (1:18-27), & listing sins generated from the depraved, reprobate mind of the God-hating sinner (1:28-32), the Holy Spirit, through the apostle, directs His discourse to the congregation of believers at Rome in ch.2 and speaks of God's righteous judgment to come to all men, good & bad, in that Day (2:1-16). Now, through the apostle Paul, the Holy Spirit directly engages those with a religious background, the Jews.