Romans 2:7

2:7 eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,

Romans 2:10

2:10 but ¹  glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

Romans 2:19-20

2:19 and if you are convinced ²  that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 2:20 an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth –

Romans 2:26

2:26 Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys ³  the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

Romans 3:12

3:12 All have turned away,

together they have become worthless;

there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.” ⁴ 

Romans 3:27-28

3:27 Where, then, is boasting? ⁵  It is excluded! By what principle? ⁶  Of works? No, but by the principle of faith! 3:28 For we consider that a person ⁷  is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law. ⁸ 

Romans 3:31

3:31 Do we then nullify ⁹  the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead ¹⁰  we uphold the law.

Romans 4:10

4:10 How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

Romans 4:23

4:23 But the statement it was credited to him ¹¹  was not written only for Abraham’s ¹²  sake,

Romans 5:20

5:20 Now the law came in ¹³  so that the transgression ¹⁴  may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

Romans 6:14

6:14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 8:20

8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility – not willingly but because of God ¹⁵  who subjected it – in hope

Romans 9:9

9:9 For this is what the promise declared: ¹⁶  “About a year from now ¹⁷  I will return and Sarah will have a son.” ¹⁸ 

Romans 10:21

10:21 But about Israel he says, “All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!” ¹⁹ 

Romans 11:13

11:13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

¹ tn Grk “but even,” to emphasize the contrast. The second word has been omitted since it is somewhat redundant in English idiom.

¹ tn This verb is parallel to the verbs in vv. 17-18a, so it shares the conditional meaning even though the word “if” is not repeated.

¹ tn The Greek word φυλάσσω (fulassw, traditionally translated “keep”) in this context connotes preservation of and devotion to an object as well as obedience.

¹ sn Verses 10-12 are a quotation from Ps 14:1-3.

¹ tn Although a number of interpreters understand the “boasting” here to refer to Jewish boasting, others (e.g. C. E. B. Cranfield, “‘The Works of the Law’ in the Epistle to the Romans,” JSNT 43 [1991]: 96) take the phrase to refer to all human boasting before God.

² tn Grk “By what sort of law?”

¹ tn Here ἄνθρωπον (anqrwpon) is used in an indefinite and general sense (BDAG 81 s.v. ἄνθρωπος 4.a.γ).

² tn See the note on the phrase “works of the law” in Rom 3:20.

¹ tn Grk “render inoperative.”

² tn Grk “but” (Greek ἀλλά, alla).

¹ tn A quotation from Gen 15:6.

² tn Grk “his”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Grk “slipped in.”

² tn Or “trespass.”

¹ tn Grk “because of the one”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Grk “For this is the word of promise.”

² tn Grk “About this time I will return.” Since this refers to the time when the promised child would be born, it would be approximately a year later.

³ sn A quotation from Gen 18:10, 14.

¹ sn A quotation from Isa 65:2.