1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 1
3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates 2 the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? 3 (I am speaking in human terms.) 4
7:1 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters 5 (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person 6 as long as he lives?
“Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble
and a rock that will make them fall, 7
yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.” 8
15:14 But I myself am fully convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, 9 that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
1 sn Here the Greek refers to anyone who is not Jewish.
2 tn Or “shows clearly.”
3 tn Grk “That God is not unjust to inflict wrath, is he?”
4 sn The same expression occurs in Gal 3:15, and similar phrases in Rom 6:19 and 1 Cor 9:8.
5 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.
6 sn Here person refers to a human being.
7 tn Grk “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.”
8 sn A quotation from Isa 28:16; 8:14.
9 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.