Romans 1:25

1:25 They ¹  exchanged the truth of God for a lie ²  and worshiped and served the creation ³  rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

Romans 3:4

3:4 Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being ⁴  shown up as a liar, ⁵  just as it is written: “so that you will be justified ⁶  in your words and will prevail when you are judged.” ⁷ 

Romans 3:26

3:26 This was ⁸  also to demonstrate ⁹  his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just ¹⁰  and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus’ faithfulness. ¹¹ 

Romans 5:14

5:14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type ¹²  of the coming one) transgressed. ¹³ 

Romans 5:17

5:17 For if, by the transgression of the one man, ¹⁴  death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!

Romans 7:5

7:5 For when we were in the flesh, ¹⁵  the sinful desires, ¹⁶  aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body ¹⁷  to bear fruit for death.

Romans 9:17

9:17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh: ¹⁸  “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.” ¹⁹ 

Romans 10:8-9

10:8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” ²⁰  (that is, the word of faith that we preach), 10:9 because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord ²¹  and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 11:2

11:2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

Romans 11:25

11:25 For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, ²²  so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel ²³  until the full number ²⁴  of the Gentiles has come in.

Romans 12:1-3

Consecration of the Believer’s Life

12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, ²⁵  by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God ²⁶  – which is your reasonable service. 12:2 Do not be conformed ²⁷  to this present world, ²⁸  but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve ²⁹  what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

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 ³⁰  a measure of faith. ³¹ 

Romans 13:4

13:4 for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be in fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain. It is God’s servant to administer retribution on the wrongdoer.

Romans 14:4

14:4 Who are you to pass judgment on another’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord ³²  is able to make him stand.

Romans 15:13

15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, ³³  so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 16:18

16:18 For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds ³⁴  of the naive.

[1:25]  ¹ tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was converted to a personal pronoun and, because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:25]  ² tn Grk “the lie.”

[1:25]  ³ tn Or “creature, created things.”

[3:4]  ⁴ tn Grk “every man”; but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used in a generic sense here to stress humanity rather than masculinity.

[3:4]  ⁵ tn Grk “Let God be true, and every man a liar.” The words “proven” and “shown up” are supplied in the translation to clarify the meaning.

[3:4]  ⁶ tn Grk “might be justified,” a subjunctive verb, but in this type of clause it carries the same sense as the future indicative verb in the latter part. “Will” is more idiomatic in contemporary English.

[3:4]  ⁷ tn Or “prevail when you judge.” A quotation from Ps 51:4.

[3:26]  ⁷ tn The words “This was” have been repeated from the previous verse to clarify that this is a continuation of that thought. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[3:26]  ⁸ tn Grk “toward a demonstration,” repeating and expanding the purpose of God’s action in v. 25a.

[3:26]  ⁹ tn Or “righteous.”

[3:26]  ¹⁰ tn Or “of the one who has faith in Jesus.” See note on “faithfulness of Jesus Christ” in v. 22 for the rationale behind the translation “Jesus’ faithfulness.”

[5:14]  ¹⁰ tn Or “pattern.”

[5:14]  ¹¹ tn Or “disobeyed”; Grk “in the likeness of Adam’s transgression.”

[5:17]  ¹³ sn Here the one man refers to Adam (cf. 5:14).

[7:5]  ¹⁶ tn That is, before we were in Christ.

[7:5]  ¹⁷ tn Or “sinful passions.”

[7:5]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “our members”; the words “of our body” have been supplied to clarify the meaning.

[9:17]  ¹⁹ sn Paul uses a typical rabbinic formula here in which the OT scriptures are figuratively portrayed as speaking to Pharaoh. What he means is that the scripture he cites refers (or can be applied) to Pharaoh.

[9:17]  ²⁰ sn A quotation from Exod 9:16.

[10:8]  ²² sn A quotation from Deut 30:14.

[10:9]  ²⁵ tn Or “the Lord.” The Greek construction, along with the quotation from Joel 2:32 in v. 13 (in which the same “Lord” seems to be in view) suggests that κύριον (kurion) is to be taken as “the Lord,” that is, Yahweh. Cf. D. B. Wallace, “The Semantics and Exegetical Significance of the Object-Complement Construction in the New Testament,” GTJ 6 (1985): 91-112.

[11:25]  ²⁸ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[11:25]  ²⁹ tn Or “Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.”

[11:25]  ³⁰ tn Grk “fullness.”

[12:1]  ³¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[12:1]  ³² tn The participle and two adjectives “alive, holy, and pleasing to God” are taken as predicates in relation to “sacrifice,” making the exhortation more emphatic. See ExSyn 618-19.

[12:2]  ³⁴ tn Although συσχηματίζεσθε (suschmatizesqe) could be either a passive or middle, the passive is more likely since it would otherwise have to be a direct middle (“conform yourselves”) and, as such, would be quite rare for NT Greek. It is very telling that being “conformed” to the present world is viewed as a passive notion, for it may suggest that it happens, in part, subconsciously. At the same time, the passive could well be a “permissive passive,” suggesting that there may be some consciousness of the conformity taking place. Most likely, it is a combination of both.

[12:2]  ³⁵ tn Grk “to this age.”

[12:2]  ³⁶ sn The verb translated test and approve (δοκιμάζω, dokimazw) carries the sense of “test with a positive outcome,” “test so as to approve.”

[12:3]  ³⁷ tn The words “of you” have been supplied for clarity.

[12:3]  ³⁸ tn Or “to each as God has distributed a measure of faith.”

[14:4]  ⁴⁰ tc Most mss, especially Western and Byzantine (D F G 048 33 1739 1881 Ï latt), read θεός (qeos, “God”) in place of κύριος (kurios, “Lord”) here. However, κύριος is found in many of the most important mss (Ì⁴⁶ א A B C P Ψ pc co), and θεός looks to be an assimilation to θεός in v. 3.

[15:13]  ⁴³ tn Grk “in the believing” or “as [you] believe,” with the object “him” supplied from the context. The referent could be God (15:13a) or Christ (15:12).

[16:18]  ⁴⁶ tn Grk “hearts.”