Romans 1:28

1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, ¹  God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. ² 

Romans 6:21

6:21 So what benefit ³  did you then reap ⁴  from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

Romans 8:15

8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, ⁵  but you received the Spirit of adoption, ⁶  by whom ⁷  we cry, “Abba, Father.”

Romans 9:30

Israel’s Rejection Culpable

9:30 What shall we say then? – that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

Romans 10:3

10:3 For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

Romans 15:3

15:3 For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.” ⁸ 

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¹ tn Grk “and just as they did not approve to have God in knowledge.”

² tn Grk “the things that are improper.”

³ tn Grk “fruit.”

⁴ tn Grk “have,” in a tense emphasizing their customary condition in the past.

⁵ tn Grk “slavery again to fear.”

⁶ 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).”

⁷ tn Or “in that.”

⁸ sn A quotation from Ps 69:9.