Romans 5:6

5:6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 9:9

9:9 For this is what the promise declared: ¹  “About a year from now ²  I will return and Sarah will have a son.” ³ 

Romans 13:11

Motivation to Godly Conduct

13:11 And do this ⁴  because we know ⁵  the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

[9:9]  ¹ tn Grk “For this is the word of promise.”

[9:9]  ² tn Grk “About this time I will return.” Since this refers to the time when the promised child would be born, it would be approximately a year later.

[9:9]  ³ sn A quotation from Gen 18:10, 14.

[13:11]  ¹ tn Grk “and this,” probably referring to the command to love (13:8-10); hence, “do” is implied from the previous verses.

[13:11]  ² tn The participle εἰδότες (eidotes) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.