NOTES for Rom 1:7

The apostle Paul greets the Christians of first-century Rome in this way, but these words can be addressed to us as well. Then we, just imagine it, are those whom God loves and calls to holiness, that is, to a life based on love for God and for people. We are those to whom everything truly good is sent from the heavenly Father and His only-begotten Son Jesus Christ for nothing, freely, and to whom peace is also given. Peace not merely as the absence of war, but as a special state, originally present in God, of harmony in all relationships and connections, the state God intended for the seventh day of Creation. All this can apply to us, because it is said: "According to your faith, let it be done for you."