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 4:18

4:18 Against hope Abraham ⁴  believed ⁵  in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations ⁶  according to the pronouncement, ⁷  “so will your descendants be.” ⁸ 

Romans 9:26

9:26 “And in the very place ⁹  where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’

there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” ¹⁰ 

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.” ¹¹ 

[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.

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

[4:18]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ sn A quotation from Gen 17:5.

[4:18]  ⁷ tn Grk “according to that which had been spoken.”

[4:18]  ⁸ sn A quotation from Gen 15:5.

[9:26]  ⁷ tn Grk “And it will be in the very place.”

[9:26]  ⁸ sn A quotation from Hos 1:10.

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