Roma 1:5

1:5 Through him ¹  we have received grace and our apostleship ²  to bring about the obedience ³  of faith ⁴  among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

Roma 1:8

Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome

1:8 First of all, ⁵  I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

Roma 3:7

3:7 For if by my lie the truth of God enhances ⁶  his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

Roma 6:6

6:6 We know that ⁷  our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, ⁸  so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

Roma 6:22

6:22 But now, freed ⁹  from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit ¹⁰  leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

Roma 7:5

7:5 For when we were in the flesh, ¹¹  the sinful desires, ¹²  aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body ¹³  to bear fruit for death.

Roma 7:8

7:8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. ¹⁴  For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Roma 7:25

7:25 Thanks be ¹⁵  to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, ¹⁶  I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but ¹⁷  with my flesh I serve ¹⁸  the law of sin.

Roma 10:5

10:5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.” ¹⁹ 

Roma 11:20

11:20 Granted! ²⁰  They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!

[1:5]  ¹ tn Grk “through whom.”

[1:5]  ² tn Some interpreters understand the phrase “grace and apostleship” as a hendiadys, translating “grace [i.e., gift] of apostleship.” The pronoun “our” is supplied in the translation to clarify the sense of the statement.

[1:5]  ³ tn Grk “and apostleship for obedience.”

[1:5]  ⁴ tn The phrase ὑπακοὴν πίστεως has been variously understood as (1) an objective genitive (a reference to the Christian faith, “obedience to [the] faith”); (2) a subjective genitive (“the obedience faith produces [or requires]”); (3) an attributive genitive (“believing obedience”); or (4) as a genitive of apposition (“obedience, [namely] faith”) in which “faith” further defines “obedience.” These options are discussed by C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans (ICC), 1:66. Others take the phrase as deliberately ambiguous; see D. B. Garlington, “The Obedience of Faith in the Letter to the Romans: Part I: The Meaning of ὑπακοὴ πίστεως (Rom 1:5; 16:26),” WTJ 52 (1990): 201-24.

[1:8]  ⁵ tn Grk “First.” Paul never mentions a second point, so J. B. Phillips translated “I must begin by telling you….”

[3:7]  ⁶ tn Grk “abounded unto.”

[6:6]  ⁷ tn Grk “knowing this, that.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[6:6]  ⁸ tn Grk “may be rendered ineffective, inoperative,” or possibly “may be destroyed.” The term καταργέω (katargew) has various nuances. In Rom 7:2 the wife whose husband has died is freed from the law (i.e., the law of marriage no longer has any power over her, in spite of what she may feel). A similar point seems to be made here (note v. 7).

[6:22]  ⁹ tn The two aorist participles translated “freed” and “enslaved” are causal in force; their full force is something like “But now, since you have become freed from sin and since you have become enslaved to God….”

[6:22]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “fruit.”

[7:5]  ¹¹ tn That is, before we were in Christ.

[7:5]  ¹² tn Or “sinful passions.”

[7:5]  ¹³ tn Grk “our members”; the words “of our body” have been supplied to clarify the meaning.

[7:8]  ¹⁴ tn Or “covetousness.”

[7:25]  ¹⁵ tc ‡ Most mss (א* A 1739 1881 Ï sy) read “I give thanks to God” rather than “Now thanks be to God” (א¹ [B] Ψ 33 81 104 365 1506 pc), the reading of NA²⁷. The reading with the verb (εὐχαριστῶ τῷ θεῷ, eucaristw tw qew) possibly arose from a transcriptional error in which several letters were doubled (TCGNT 455). The conjunction δέ (de, “now”) is included in some mss as well (א¹ Ψ 33 81 104 365 1506 pc), but it should probably not be considered original. The ms support for the omission of δέ is both excellent and widespread (א* A B D 1739 1881 Ï lat sy), and its addition can be explained as an insertion to smooth out the transition between v. 24 and 25.

[7:25]  ¹⁶ tn There is a double connective here that cannot be easily preserved in English: “consequently therefore,” emphasizing the conclusion of what he has been arguing.

[7:25]  ¹⁷ tn Greek emphasizes the contrast between these two clauses more than can be easily expressed in English.

[7:25]  ¹⁸ tn The words “I serve” have been repeated here for clarity.

[10:5]  ¹⁹ sn A quotation from Lev 18:5.

[11:20]  ²⁰ tn Grk “well!”, an adverb used to affirm a statement. It means “very well,” “you are correct.”