Romans 7:1
The Believer’s Relationship to the Law
7:1 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters 1 (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person 2 as long as he lives?
Romans 7:20
7:20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.
Romans 12:19
12:19 Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath,
3 for it is written, “
Vengeance is mine, I will repay,”
4 says the Lord.
Romans 14:11
14:11 For it is written, “
As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.”
5
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
6 of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
Romans 15:23
15:23 But now there is nothing more to keep me
7 in these regions, and I have for many years desired
8 to come to you
Romans 16:23
16:23 Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.
1 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.
2 sn Here person refers to a human being.
3 tn Grk “the wrath,” referring to God’s wrath as the remainder of the verse shows.
4 sn A quotation from Deut 32:35.
5 sn A quotation from Isa 45:23.
7 tn Grk “unto obedience.”
9 tn Grk “now no longer having a place…I have.”
10 tn Grk “but having a desire…for many years.”