Roma 7:8

7:8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. ¹  For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Roma 8:15

8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, ²  but you received the Spirit of adoption, ³  by whom ⁴  we cry, “Abba, Father.”

Roma 13:1

Submission to Civil Government

13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God’s appointment, ⁵  and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

Roma 13:11

Motivation to Godly Conduct

13:11 And do this ⁶  because we know ⁷  the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

[7:8]  ¹ tn Or “covetousness.”

[8:15]  ² tn Grk “slavery again to fear.”

[8:15]  ³ 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).”

[8:15]  ⁴ tn Or “in that.”

[13:1]  ⁵ tn Grk “by God.”

[13:11]  ⁶ tn Grk “and this,” probably referring to the command to love (13:8-10); hence, “do” is implied from the previous verses.

[13:11]  ⁷ tn The participle εἰδότες (eidotes) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.