Roma 1:13

1:13 I do not want you to be unaware, ¹  brothers and sisters, ²  that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles. ³ 

Roma 9:4

9:4 who are Israelites. To them belong ⁴  the adoption as sons, ⁵  the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, ⁶  and the promises.

Roma 9:11

9:11 even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election ⁷  would stand, not by works but by ⁸  his calling) ⁹  –

Roma 10:14

10:14 How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them ¹⁰ ?

[1:13]  ¹ sn The expression “I do not want you to be unaware [Grk ignorant]” also occurs in 1 Cor 10:1; 12:1; 1 Thess 4:13. Paul uses the phrase to signal that he is about to say something very important.

[1:13]  ² tn Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” or “fellow Christians” as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1, where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [adelfoi] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited).

[1:13]  ³ tn Grk “in order that I might have some fruit also among you just as also among the rest of the Gentiles.”

[9:4]  ⁴ tn Grk “of whom.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[9:4]  ⁵ tn The Greek term υἱοθεσία (Juioqesia) was originally a legal technical term for adoption as a son with full rights of inheritance. BDAG 1024 s.v. notes, “a legal t.t. of ‘adoption’ of children, in our lit., i.e. in Paul, only in a transferred sense of a transcendent filial relationship between God and humans (with the legal aspect, not gender specificity, as major semantic component).” Although some modern translations remove the filial sense completely and render the term merely “adoption” (cf. NAB, ESV), the retention of this component of meaning was accomplished in the present translation by the phrase “as sons.”

[9:4]  ⁶ tn Or “cultic service.”

[9:11]  ⁷ tn Grk “God’s purpose according to election.”

[9:11]  ⁸ tn Or “not based on works but based on…”

[9:11]  ⁹ tn Grk “by the one who calls.”

[9:11]  sn The entire clause is something of a parenthetical remark.

[10:14]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “preaching”; the words “to them” are supplied for clarification.