Romans 11:25

Context

11:25 For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters,¹ so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel² until the full number³ of the Gentiles has come in.

Romans 15:16

Context
15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve⁴ the gospel of God⁵ like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering,⁶ sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:19

Context
15:19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Romans 16:19

Context
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.

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

[11:25] ²tn Or “Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.”

[11:25] ³tn Grk “fullness.”

[15:16] ⁴tn Grk “serving.” This is a continuation of the previous sentence in the Greek text, but in keeping with contemporary English style, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[15:16] ⁵tn The genitive in the phrase τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ θεοῦ (to euangelion tou qeou, “the gospel of God”) could be translated as either a subjective genitive (“the gospel which God brings”) or an objective genitive (“the gospel about God”). Either is grammatically possible. This is possibly an instance of a plenary genitive (see ExSyn 119-21; M. Zerwick, Biblical Greek, §§36-39). If so, an interplay between the two concepts is intended: The gospel which God brings is in fact the gospel about himself.

[15:16] ⁶tn Grk “so that the offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable.” This could be understood to refer to an offering belonging to the Gentiles (a possessive genitive) or made by the Gentiles (subjective genitive), but more likely the phrase should be understood as an appositive genitive, with the Gentiles themselves consisting of the offering (so J. D. G. Dunn, Romans [WBC 38], 2:860). The latter view is reflected in the translation “so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering.”