Romans, written for us

Here is a fairly rough breakdown of 'who Paul is addressing' in Romans:

Chap 1: Gentiles	Chap 2: Jews
Chap 6: Gentiles	Chap 7: Jews

To some degree that is helpful, but it is not quite the structure as it is in Romans. It is more like:

Chap 1: Everyone	Chap 2: Jews as representatives of everyone
Chap 6: Everyone	Chap 7: Jews as representatives of everyone

Romans is not just written for us in the sense that an analogy between the Jews and Gentiles can be drawn with us. We are ourselves being addressed through the original addressees.

We must get away from the thinking that Romans 1 is addressed to Gentiles. It is about all humanity. We must also get away from thinking that the Jews were just a particular historical people under a particular God-given historical law that is only analogous to our situation. They were always the representatives of all humanity, and we misunderstand the bible if we think they were just an example.