Roma 2:14

2:14 For whenever the Gentiles, ¹  who do not have the law, do by nature ²  the things required by the law, ³  these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

Roma 7:8

7:8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. ⁴  For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Roma 9:29

9:29 Just ⁵  as Isaiah predicted,

“If the Lord of armies ⁶  had not left us descendants,

we would have become like Sodom,

and we would have resembled Gomorrah.” ⁷ 

[2:14]  ¹ sn Gentile is a NT term for a non-Jew.

[2:14]  ² tn Some (e.g. C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans [ICC], 1:135-37) take the phrase φύσει (fusei, “by nature”) to go with the preceding “do not have the law,” thus: “the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature,” that is, by virtue of not being born Jewish.

[2:14]  ³ tn Grk “do by nature the things of the law.”

[7:8]  ⁴ tn Or “covetousness.”

[9:29]  ⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[9:29]  ⁶ tn Traditionally, “Lord of hosts”; Grk “Lord Sabaoth,” which means “Lord of the [heavenly] armies,” sometimes translated more generally as “Lord Almighty.”

[9:29]  ⁷ sn A quotation from Isa 1:9.