Romans 1:16

The Power of the Gospel

1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹ 

Romans 4:13

4:13 For the promise ²  to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Romans 4:20

4:20 He ³  did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.

Romans 5:2

5:2 through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice ⁴  in the hope of God’s glory.

Romans 5:5

5:5 And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God ⁵  has been poured out ⁶  in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Romans 7:6

7:6 But now we have been released from the law, because we have died ⁷  to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code. ⁸ 

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 8:15

8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, ⁹  but you received the Spirit of adoption, ¹⁰  by whom ¹¹  we cry, “Abba, Father.”

Romans 9:8

9:8 This means ¹²  it is not the children of the flesh ¹³  who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

Romans 9:25

9:25 As he also says in Hosea:

“I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ¹⁴  ‘My beloved.’” ¹⁵ 

Romans 9:33

9:33 just as it is written,

“Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble

and a rock that will make them fall, ¹⁶ 

yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.” ¹⁷ 

Romans 10:12

10:12 For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him.

Romans 10:14

10:14 How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them ¹⁸ ?

Romans 13:1

Submission to Civil Government

13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God’s appointment, ¹⁹  and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

Romans 14:15

14:15 For if your brother or sister ²⁰  is distressed because of what you eat, ²¹  you are no longer walking in love. ²²  Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

Romans 14:17

14:17 For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

[1:16]  ¹ sn Here the Greek refers to anyone who is not Jewish.

[4:13]  ² sn Although a singular noun, the promise is collective and does not refer only to Gen 12:7, but as D. Moo (Romans 1-8 [WEC], 279) points out, refers to multiple aspects of the promise to Abraham: multiplied descendants (Gen 12:2), possession of the land (Gen 13:15-17), and his becoming the vehicle of blessing to all people (Gen 12:13).

[4:20]  ³ tn Grk “And he.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, δέ (de) has not been translated here.

[5:2]  ⁴ tn Or “exult, boast.”

[5:5]  ⁵ tn The phrase ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ (Jh agaph tou qeou, “the love of God”) could be interpreted as either an objective genitive (“our love for God”), subjective genitive (“God’s love for us”), or both (M. Zerwick’s “general” genitive [Biblical Greek, §§36-39]; D. B. Wallace’s “plenary” genitive [ExSyn 119-21]). The immediate context, which discusses what God has done for believers, favors a subjective genitive, but the fact that this love is poured out within the hearts of believers implies that it may be the source for believers’ love for God; consequently an objective genitive cannot be ruled out. It is possible that both these ideas are meant in the text and that this is a plenary genitive: “The love that comes from God and that produces our love for God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (ExSyn 121).

[5:5]  ⁶ sn On the OT background of the Spirit being poured out, see Isa 32:15; Joel 2:28-29.

[7:6]  ⁶ tn Grk “having died.” The participle ἀποθανόντες (apoqanonte") has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.

[7:6]  ⁷ tn Grk “in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.”

[8:15]  ⁷ tn Grk “slavery again to fear.”

[8:15]  ⁸ tn The Greek term υἱοθεσία (Juioqesia) was originally a legal technical term for adoption as a son with full rights of inheritance. BDAG 1024 s.v. notes, “a legal t.t. of ‘adoption’ of children, in our lit., i.e. in Paul, only in a transferred sense of a transcendent filial relationship between God and humans (with the legal aspect, not gender specificity, as major semantic component).”

[8:15]  ⁹ tn Or “in that.”

[9:8]  ⁸ tn Grk “That is,” or “That is to say.”

[9:8]  ⁹ tn Because it forms the counterpoint to “the children of promise” the expression “children of the flesh” has been retained in the translation.

[9:25]  ⁹ tn Grk “and her who was not beloved, ‘Beloved.’”

[9:25]  ¹⁰ sn A quotation from Hos 2:23.

[9:33]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.”

[9:33]  ¹¹ sn A quotation from Isa 28:16; 8:14.

[10:14]  ¹¹ tn Grk “preaching”; the words “to them” are supplied for clarification.

[13:1]  ¹² tn Grk “by God.”

[14:15]  ¹³ tn Grk “brother.”

[14:15]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “on account of food.”

[14:15]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “according to love.”