Roma 3:16

3:16 ruin and misery are in their paths,

Roma 5:13

5:13 for before the law was given, ¹  sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin ²  when there is no law.

Roma 9:20

9:20 But who indeed are you – a mere human being ³  – to talk back to God? ⁴  Does what is molded say to the molder, “Why have you made me like this?” ⁵ 

Roma 9:32

9:32 Why not? Because they pursued ⁶  it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. ⁷  They stumbled over the stumbling stone, ⁸ 

[5:13]  ¹ tn Grk “for before the law.”

[5:13]  ² tn Or “sin is not reckoned.”

[9:20]  ³ tn Grk “O man.”

[9:20]  ⁴ tn Grk “On the contrary, O man, who are you to talk back to God?”

[9:20]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Isa 29:16; 45:9.

[9:32]  ⁶ tn Grk “Why? Because not by faith but as though by works.” The verb (“they pursued [it]”) is to be supplied from the preceding verse for the sake of English style; yet a certain literary power is seen in Paul’s laconic style.

[9:32]  ⁷ tc Most mss, especially the later ones (א² D Ψ 33 Ï sy), read νόμου (nomou, “of the law”) here, echoing Paul’s usage in Rom 3:20, 28 and elsewhere. The qualifying phrase is lacking in א* A B F G 6 629 630 1739 1881 pc lat co. The longer reading thus is weaker externally and internally, being motivated apparently by a need to clarify.

[9:32]  tn Grk “but as by works.”

[9:32]  ⁸ tn Grk “the stone of stumbling.”