Roma 1:8

Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome

1:8 First of all, ¹  I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

Roma 1:24

1:24 Therefore God gave them over ²  in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor ³  their bodies among themselves. ⁴ 

Roma 7:18

7:18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it. ⁵ 

[1:8]  ¹ tn Grk “First.” Paul never mentions a second point, so J. B. Phillips translated “I must begin by telling you….”

[1:24]  ² sn Possibly an allusion to Ps 81:12.

[1:24]  ³ tn The genitive articular infinitive τοῦ ἀτιμάζεσθαι (tou atimazesqai, “to dishonor”) has been taken as (1) an infinitive of purpose; (2) an infinitive of result; or (3) an epexegetical (i.e., explanatory) infinitive, expanding the previous clause.

[1:24]  ⁴ tn Grk “among them.”

[7:18]  ⁵ tn Grk “For to wish is present in/with me, but not to do it.”