Romans 6:4

6:4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life. ¹ 

Romans 7:6

7:6 But now we have been released from the law, because we have died ²  to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code. ³ 

Romans 12:2

12:2 Do not be conformed ⁴  to this present world, ⁵  but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve ⁶  what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

Romans 1:30

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

Romans 6:18

6:18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

Romans 7:22

7:22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

Romans 6:8

6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

Romans 8:2

8:2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit ⁷  in Christ Jesus has set you ⁸  free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 4:13

4:13 For the promise ⁹  to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Romans 5:11

5:11 Not ¹⁰  only this, but we also rejoice ¹¹  in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

Romans 6:5

6:5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection. ¹² 

Romans 6:17

6:17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed ¹³  from the heart that pattern ¹⁴  of teaching you were entrusted to,

Romans 6:13

6:13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments ¹⁵  to be used for unrighteousness, ¹⁶  but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments ¹⁷  to be used for righteousness.

Romans 8:23

8:23 Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, ¹⁸  groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, ¹⁹  the redemption of our bodies. ²⁰ 

[6:4]  ¹ tn Grk “may walk in newness of life,” in which ζωῆς (zwhs) functions as an attributed genitive (see ExSyn 89-90, where this verse is given as a prime example).

[7:6]  ² tn Grk “having died.” The participle ἀποθανόντες (apoqanonte") has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.

[7:6]  ³ tn Grk “in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.”

[12:2]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Grk “to this age.”

[12:2]  ⁵ sn The verb translated test and approve (δοκιμάζω, dokimazw) carries the sense of “test with a positive outcome,” “test so as to approve.”

[8:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “for the law of the Spirit of life.”

[8:2]  ⁵ tc Most mss read the first person singular pronoun με (me) here (A D 1739^c 1881 Ï lat sa). The second person singular pronoun σε (se) is superior because of external support (א B {F which reads σαι} G 1506* 1739*) and internal support (it is the harder reading since ch. 7 was narrated in the first person). At the same time, it could have arisen via dittography from the final syllable of the verb preceding it (ἠλευθέρωσεν, hleuqerwsen; “has set free”). But for this to happen in such early and diverse witnesses is unlikely, especially as it depends on various scribes repeatedly overlooking either the nu or the nu-bar at the end of the verb.

[4:13]  ⁵ sn Although a singular noun, the promise is collective and does not refer only to Gen 12:7, but as D. Moo (Romans 1-8 [WEC], 279) points out, refers to multiple aspects of the promise to Abraham: multiplied descendants (Gen 12:2), possession of the land (Gen 13:15-17), and his becoming the vehicle of blessing to all people (Gen 12:13).

[5:11]  ⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[5:11]  ⁷ tn Or “exult, boast.”

[6:5]  ⁷ tn Grk “we will certainly also of his resurrection.”

[6:17]  ⁸ tn Grk “you were slaves of sin but you obeyed.”

[6:17]  ⁹ tn Or “type, form.”

[6:13]  ⁹ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

[6:13]  ¹⁰ tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”

[6:13]  ¹¹ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

[8:23]  ¹⁰ tn Or “who have the Spirit as firstfruits.” The genitive πνεύματος (pneumatos) can be understood here as possessive (“the firstfruits belonging to the Spirit”) although it is much more likely that this is a genitive of apposition (“the firstfruits, namely, the Spirit”); cf. TEV, NLT.

[8:23]  ¹¹ tn See the note on “adoption” in v. 15.

[8:23]  ¹² tn Grk “body.”