Romans 1:15

1:15 Thus I am eager ¹  also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome. ² 

Romans 3:27

3:27 Where, then, is boasting? ³  It is excluded! By what principle? ⁴  Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

Romans 5:13

5:13 for before the law was given, ⁵  sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin ⁶  when there is no law.

Romans 6:1

The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination

6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?

Romans 9:9

9:9 For this is what the promise declared: ⁷  “About a year from now ⁸  I will return and Sarah will have a son.” ⁹ 

Romans 9:31

9:31 but Israel even though pursuing ¹⁰  a law of righteousness ¹¹  did not attain it. ¹² 

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¹ 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.”

² map For location see JP4-A1.

³ tn Although a number of interpreters understand the “boasting” here to refer to Jewish boasting, others (e.g. C. E. B. Cranfield, “‘The Works of the Law’ in the Epistle to the Romans,” JSNT 43 [1991]: 96) take the phrase to refer to all human boasting before God.

⁴ tn Grk “By what sort of law?”

⁵ tn Grk “for before the law.”

⁶ tn Or “sin is not reckoned.”

⁷ tn Grk “For this is the word of promise.”

⁸ tn Grk “About this time I will return.” Since this refers to the time when the promised child would be born, it would be approximately a year later.

⁹ sn A quotation from Gen 18:10, 14.

¹⁰ tn Or “who pursued.” The participle could be taken adverbially or adjectivally.

¹¹ tn Or “a legal righteousness,” that is, a righteousness based on law. This translation would treat the genitive δικαιοσύνης (dikaiosunh") as an attributed genitive (see ExSyn 89-91).

¹² tn Grk “has not attained unto the law.”