Romans 1:14

1:14 I am a debtor ¹  both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Romans 2:19

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,

Romans 3:18

3:18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” ³ 

Romans 4:15

4:15 For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression ⁴  either.

Romans 4:21

4:21 He was ⁵  fully convinced that what God ⁶  promised he was also able to do.

Romans 5:6

5:6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 6:14-15

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

The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness

6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

Romans 8:8

8:8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Romans 8:12

8:12 So then, ⁷  brothers and sisters, ⁸  we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

Romans 8:14

8:14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are ⁹  the sons of God.

Romans 8:16

8:16 The Spirit himself bears witness to ¹⁰  our spirit that we are God’s children.

Romans 9:2

9:2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ¹¹ 

Romans 9:7

9:7 nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.” ¹² 

Romans 10:7

10:7 or “Who will descend into the abyss?” ¹³  (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

Romans 12:9

Conduct in Love

12:9 Love must be ¹⁴  without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

[1:14]  ¹ tn Or “obligated.”

[2:19]  ² 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.

[3:18]  ³ sn A quotation from Ps 36:1.

[4:15]  ⁴ tn Or “violation.”

[4:21]  ⁵ tn Grk “and being.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[4:21]  ⁶ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:12]  ⁶ tn There is a double connective here that cannot be easily preserved in English: “consequently therefore,” emphasizing the conclusion of what he has been arguing.

[8:12]  ⁷ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[8:14]  ⁷ tn Grk “For as many as are being led by the Spirit of God, these are.”

[8:16]  ⁸ tn Or possibly “with.” ExSyn 160-61, however, notes the following: “At issue, grammatically, is whether the Spirit testifies alongside of our spirit (dat. of association), or whether he testifies to our spirit (indirect object) that we are God’s children. If the former, the one receiving this testimony is unstated (is it God? or believers?). If the latter, the believer receives the testimony and hence is assured of salvation via the inner witness of the Spirit. The first view has the advantage of a σύν- (sun-) prefixed verb, which might be expected to take an accompanying dat. of association (and is supported by NEB, JB, etc.). But there are three reasons why πνεύματι (pneumati) should not be taken as association: (1) Grammatically, a dat. with a σύν- prefixed verb does not necessarily indicate association. This, of course, does not preclude such here, but this fact at least opens up the alternatives in this text. (2) Lexically, though συμμαρτυρέω (summarturew) originally bore an associative idea, it developed in the direction of merely intensifying μαρτυρέω (marturew). This is surely the case in the only other NT text with a dat. (Rom 9:1). (3) Contextually, a dat. of association does not seem to support Paul’s argument: ‘What standing has our spirit in this matter? Of itself it surely has no right at all to testify to our being sons of God’ [C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans [ICC], 1:403]. In sum, Rom 8:16 seems to be secure as a text in which the believer’s assurance of salvation is based on the inner witness of the Spirit. The implications of this for one’s soteriology are profound: The objective data, as helpful as they are, cannot by themselves provide assurance of salvation; the believer also needs (and receives) an existential, ongoing encounter with God’s Spirit in order to gain that familial comfort.”

[9:2]  ⁹ tn Grk “my sorrow is great and the anguish in my heart is unceasing.”

[9:7]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “be called.” The emphasis here is upon God’s divine sovereignty in choosing Isaac as the child through whom Abraham’s lineage would be counted as opposed to Ishmael.

[10:7]  ¹¹ sn A quotation from Deut 30:13.

[12:9]  ¹² tn The verb “must be” is understood in the Greek text.