Romans 11:22

11:22 Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God – harshness toward those who have fallen, but ¹  God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; ²  otherwise you also will be cut off.

Romans 5:8

5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 12:16

12:16 Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. ³  Do not be conceited. ⁴ 

Romans 15:5

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

Romans 12:14

12:14 Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.

Romans 11:18

11:18 do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Romans 1:27

1:27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women ⁶  and were inflamed in their passions ⁷  for one another. Men ⁸  committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Romans 1:30

1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

Romans 11:30

11:30 Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

Romans 3:20

3:20 For no one is declared righteous before him ⁹  by the works of the law, ¹⁰  for through the law comes ¹¹  the knowledge of sin.

Romans 8:7

8:7 because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

Romans 13:12

13:12 The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

Romans 2:4

2:4 Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know ¹²  that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

Romans 14:15

14:15 For if your brother or sister ¹³  is distressed because of what you eat, ¹⁴  you are no longer walking in love. ¹⁵  Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

[11:22]  ¹ tn Greek emphasizes the contrast between these two clauses more than can be easily expressed in English.

[11:22]  ² tn Grk “if you continue in (the) kindness.”

[12:16]  ³ tn Or “but give yourselves to menial tasks.” The translation depends on whether one takes the adjective “lowly” as masculine or neuter.

[12:16]  ⁴ tn Grk “Do not be wise in your thinking.”

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

[1:27]  ⁷ tn Grk “likewise so also the males abandoning the natural function of the female.”

[1:27]  ⁸ tn Grk “burned with intense desire” (L&N 25.16).

[1:27]  ⁹ tn Grk “another, men committing…and receiving,” continuing the description of their deeds. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[3:20]  ⁹ sn An allusion to Ps 143:2.

[3:20]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “because by the works of the law no flesh is justified before him.” Some recent scholars have understood the phrase ἒργα νόμου (erga nomou, “works of the law”) to refer not to obedience to the Mosaic law generally, but specifically to portions of the law that pertain to things like circumcision and dietary laws which set the Jewish people apart from the other nations (e.g., J. D. G. Dunn, Romans [WBC], 1:155). Other interpreters, like C. E. B. Cranfield (“‘The Works of the Law’ in the Epistle to the Romans,” JSNT 43 [1991]: 89-101) reject this narrow interpretation for a number of reasons, among which the most important are: (1) The second half of v. 20, “for through the law comes the knowledge of sin,” is hard to explain if the phrase “works of the law” is understood in a restricted sense; (2) the plural phrase “works of the law” would have to be understood in a different sense from the singular phrase “the work of the law” in 2:15; (3) similar phrases involving the law in Romans (2:13, 14; 2:25, 26, 27; 7:25; 8:4; and 13:8) which are naturally related to the phrase “works of the law” cannot be taken to refer to circumcision (in fact, in 2:25 circumcision is explicitly contrasted with keeping the law). Those interpreters who reject the “narrow” interpretation of “works of the law” understand the phrase to refer to obedience to the Mosaic law in general.

[3:20]  ¹¹ tn Grk “is.”

[2:4]  ¹¹ tn Grk “being unaware.”

[14:15]  ¹³ tn Grk “brother.”

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

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