Romans 1:5

1:5 Through him ¹  we have received grace and our apostleship ²  to bring about the obedience ³  of faith ⁴  among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

Romans 1:23

1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings ⁵  or birds or four-footed animals ⁶  or reptiles.

Romans 4:18

4:18 Against hope Abraham ⁷  believed ⁸  in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations ⁹  according to the pronouncement, ¹⁰  “so will your descendants be.” ¹¹ 

Romans 7:8

7:8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. ¹²  For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Romans 8:18

8:18 For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared ¹³  to the glory that will be revealed to us.

Romans 8:27

8:27 And he ¹⁴  who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit ¹⁵  intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.

Romans 8:39

8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 9:3

9:3 For I could wish ¹⁶  that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, ¹⁷  my fellow countrymen, ¹⁸ 

Romans 9:7

9:7 nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.” ¹⁹ 

Romans 9:30

Israel’s Rejection Culpable

9:30 What shall we say then? – that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

Romans 10:9

10:9 because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord ²⁰  and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 11:1

Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final

11:1 So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:23

11:23 And even they – if they do not continue in their unbelief – will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Romans 12:16

12:16 Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. ²¹  Do not be conceited. ²² 

Romans 15:12

15:12 And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, and the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles, in him will the Gentiles hope.” ²³ 

Romans 15:21

15:21 but as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.” ²⁴ 

[1:5]  ¹ tn Grk “through whom.”

[1:5]  ² tn Some interpreters understand the phrase “grace and apostleship” as a hendiadys, translating “grace [i.e., gift] of apostleship.” The pronoun “our” is supplied in the translation to clarify the sense of the statement.

[1:5]  ³ tn Grk “and apostleship for obedience.”

[1:5]  ⁴ tn The phrase ὑπακοὴν πίστεως has been variously understood as (1) an objective genitive (a reference to the Christian faith, “obedience to [the] faith”); (2) a subjective genitive (“the obedience faith produces [or requires]”); (3) an attributive genitive (“believing obedience”); or (4) as a genitive of apposition (“obedience, [namely] faith”) in which “faith” further defines “obedience.” These options are discussed by C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans (ICC), 1:66. Others take the phrase as deliberately ambiguous; see D. B. Garlington, “The Obedience of Faith in the Letter to the Romans: Part I: The Meaning of ὑπακοὴ πίστεως (Rom 1:5; 16:26),” WTJ 52 (1990): 201-24.

[1:23]  ⁵ tn Grk “exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God in likeness of an image of corruptible man.” Here there is a wordplay on the Greek terms ἄφθαρτος (afqarto", “immortal, imperishable, incorruptible”) and φθαρτός (fqarto", “mortal, corruptible, subject to decay”).

[1:23]  ⁶ sn Possibly an allusion to Ps 106:19-20.

[4:18]  ⁹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:18]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “who against hope believed,” referring to Abraham. 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.

[4:18]  ¹¹ sn A quotation from Gen 17:5.

[4:18]  ¹² tn Grk “according to that which had been spoken.”

[4:18]  ¹³ sn A quotation from Gen 15:5.

[7:8]  ¹³ tn Or “covetousness.”

[8:18]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “are not worthy [to be compared].”

[8:27]  ²¹ sn He refers to God here; Paul has not specifically identified him for the sake of rhetorical power (for by leaving the subject slightly ambiguous, he draws his audience into seeing God’s hand in places where he is not explicitly mentioned).

[8:27]  ²² tn Grk “he,” or “it”; the referent (the Spirit) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:3]  ²⁵ tn Or “For I would pray.” The implied condition is “if this could save my fellow Jews.”

[9:3]  ²⁶ tn Grk “brothers.” See BDAG 18-19 s.v. ἀδελφός 2.b.

[9:3]  ²⁷ tn Grk “my kinsmen according to the flesh.”

[9:7]  ²⁹ 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.

[10:9]  ³³ 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.

[12:16]  ³⁷ tn Or “but give yourselves to menial tasks.” The translation depends on whether one takes the adjective “lowly” as masculine or neuter.

[12:16]  ³⁸ tn Grk “Do not be wise in your thinking.”

[15:12]  ⁴¹ sn A quotation from Isa 11:10.

[15:21]  ⁴⁵ sn A quotation from Isa 52:15.