Romans 2:29

2:29 but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart ¹  by the Spirit ²  and not by the written code. ³  This person’s ⁴  praise is not from people but from God.

Romans 5:11

5:11 Not ⁵  only this, but we also rejoice ⁶  in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

Romans 7:15

7:15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate. ⁷ 

Romans 9:26

9:26 “And in the very place ⁸  where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’

there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” ⁹ 

Romans 15:18

15:18 For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience ¹⁰  of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

¹ sn On circumcision is of the heart see Lev 26:41; Deut 10:16; Jer 4:4; Ezek 44:9.

² tn Some have taken the phrase ἐν πνεύματι (en pneumati, “by/in [the] S/spirit”) not as a reference to the Holy Spirit, but referring to circumcision as “spiritual and not literal” (RSV).

³ tn Grk “letter.”

⁴ tn Grk “whose.” The relative pronoun has been replaced by the phrase “this person’s” and, because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started in the translation.

⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

⁶ tn Or “exult, boast.”

⁹ tn Grk “but what I hate, this I do.”

¹³ tn Grk “And it will be in the very place.”

¹⁴ sn A quotation from Hos 1:10.

¹⁷ tn Grk “unto obedience.”