Romans 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 

Romans 1:15

1:15 Thus I am eager ⁴  also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome. ⁵ 

Romans 7:11

7:11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died. ⁶ 

Romans 7:22

7:22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

Romans 7:24

7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Romans 11:14

11:14 if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

Romans 11:19

11:19 Then you will say, “The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

Romans 11:27

11:27 And this is my covenant with them, ⁷ 

when I take away their sins.” ⁸ 

Romans 15:22

Paul’s Intention of Visiting the Romans

15:22 This is the reason I was often hindered from coming to you.

Romans 15:25

15:25 But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.

Romans 16:22

16:22 I, Tertius, who am writing this letter, greet you in the Lord.

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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.

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).

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

⁴ tn Or “willing, ready”; Grk “so my eagerness [is] to preach…” The word πρόθυμος (proqumo", “eager, willing”) is used only elsewhere in the NT in Matt 26:41 = Mark 14:38: “the spirit indeed is willing (πρόθυμος), but the flesh is weak.”

⁵ map For location see JP4-A1.

⁶ tn Or “and through it killed me.”

⁷ sn A quotation from Isa 59:20-21.

⁸ sn A quotation from Isa 27:9; Jer 31:33-34.