1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 1
6:21 So what benefit 2 did you then reap 3 from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.
1 sn Here the Greek refers to anyone who is not Jewish.
2 tn Grk “fruit.”
3 tn Grk “have,” in a tense emphasizing their customary condition in the past.
4 tn The participle τὰ…γινόμενα (ta…ginomena) usually refers to “things happening” or “things which are,” but with the following genitive phrase ὑπ᾿ αὐτῶν (Jup’ autwn), which indicates agency, the idea seems to be “things being done.” This passive construction was translated as an active one to simplify the English style.