Romans 1:15

1:15 Thus I am eager ¹  also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome. ² 

Romans 15:32

15:32 so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

Romans 8:11

8:11 Moreover if the Spirit of the one ³  who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ ⁴  from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you. ⁵ 

Romans 1:11-12

1:11 For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift ⁶  to strengthen you, 1:12 that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, ⁷  both yours and mine.

Romans 8:10

8:10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but ⁸  the Spirit is your life ⁹  because of righteousness.

Romans 16:1

Personal Greetings

16:1 Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant ¹⁰  of the church in Cenchrea,

Romans 1:7

1:7 To all those loved by God in Rome, ¹¹  called to be saints: ¹²  Grace and peace to you ¹³  from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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,

Romans 15:5

15:5 Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another ¹⁴  in accordance with Christ Jesus,

Romans 15:15

15:15 But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God

Romans 1:13

1:13 I do not want you to be unaware, ¹⁵  brothers and sisters, ¹⁶  that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁷ 

Romans 8:9

8:9 You, however, are not in ¹⁸  the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

Romans 12:3

Conduct in Humility

12:3 For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you ¹⁹  a measure of faith. ²⁰ 

Romans 16:19

16:19 Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.

[1:15]  ¹ tn Or “willing, ready”; Grk “so my eagerness [is] to preach…” The word πρόθυμος (proqumo", “eager, willing”) is used only elsewhere in the NT in Matt 26:41 = Mark 14:38: “the spirit indeed is willing (πρόθυμος), but the flesh is weak.”

[1:15]  ² map For location see JP4 A1.

[8:11]  ³ sn The one who raised Jesus from the dead refers to God (also in the following clause).

[8:11]  ⁴ tc Several mss read ᾿Ιησοῦν (Ihsoun, “Jesus”) after Χριστόν (Criston, “Christ”; א* A D* 630 1506 1739 1881 pc bo); C 81 104 lat have ᾿Ιησοῦν Χριστόν. The shorter reading is more likely to be original, though, both because of external evidence (א² B D² F G Ψ 33 Ï sa) and internal evidence (scribes were much more likely to add the name “Jesus” if it were lacking than to remove it if it were already present in the text, especially to harmonize with the earlier mention of Jesus in the verse).

[8:11]  ⁵ tc Most mss (B D F G Ψ 33 1739 1881 Ï lat) have διά (dia) followed by the accusative: “because of his Spirit who lives in you.” The genitive “through his Spirit” is supported by א A C⁽*⁾ 81 104 1505 1506 al, and is slightly preferred.

[1:11]  ⁵ sn Paul does not mean here that he is going to bestow upon the Roman believers what is commonly known as a “spiritual gift,” that is, a special enabling for service given to believers by the Holy Spirit. Instead, this is either a metonymy of cause for effect (Paul will use his own spiritual gifts to edify the Romans), or it simply means something akin to a blessing or benefit in the spiritual realm. It is possible that Paul uses this phrase to connote specifically the broader purpose of his letter, which is for the Romans to understand his gospel, but this seems less likely.

[1:12]  ⁷ tn Grk “that is, to be comforted together with you through the faith in one another.”

[8:10]  ⁹ tn Greek emphasizes the contrast between these two clauses more than can be easily expressed in English.

[8:10]  ¹⁰ tn Or “life-giving.” Grk “the Spirit is life.”

[16:1]  ¹¹ tn Or “deaconess.” It is debated whether διάκονος (diakonos) here refers to a specific office within the church. One contextual argument used to support this view is that Phoebe is associated with a particular church, Cenchrea, and as such would therefore be a deacon of that church. In the NT some who are called διάκονος are related to a particular church, yet the scholarly consensus is that such individuals are not deacons, but “servants” or “ministers” (other viable translations for διάκονος). For example, Epaphras is associated with the church in Colossians and is called a διάκονος in Col 1:7, but no contemporary translation regards him as a deacon. In 1 Tim 4:6 Paul calls Timothy a διάκονος; Timothy was associated with the church in Ephesus, but he obviously was not a deacon. In addition, the lexical evidence leans away from this view: Within the NT, the διακον- word group rarely functions with a technical nuance. In any case, the evidence is not compelling either way. The view accepted in the translation above is that Phoebe was a servant of the church, not a deaconess, although this conclusion should be regarded as tentative.

[1:7]  ¹³ map For location see JP4 A1.

[1:7]  ¹⁴ tn Although the first part of v. 7 is not a complete English sentence, it maintains the “From…to” pattern used in all the Pauline letters to indicate the sender and the recipients. Here, however, there are several intervening verses (vv. 2-6), which makes the first half of v. 7 appear as an isolated sentence fragment.

[1:7]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “Grace to you and peace.”

[15:5]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “grant you to think the same among one another.”

[1:13]  ¹⁷ sn The expression “I do not want you to be unaware [Grk ignorant]” also occurs in 1 Cor 10:1; 12:1; 1 Thess 4:13. Paul uses the phrase to signal that he is about to say something very important.

[1:13]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” or “fellow Christians” as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1, where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [adelfoi] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited).

[1:13]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “in order that I might have some fruit also among you just as also among the rest of the Gentiles.”

[8:9]  ¹⁹ tn Or “are not controlled by the flesh but by the Spirit.”

[12:3]  ²¹ tn The words “of you” have been supplied for clarity.

[12:3]  ²² tn Or “to each as God has distributed a measure of faith.”