Romans 6:9

6:9 We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

Romans 8:15

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

Romans 11:23

11:23 And even they – if they do not continue in their unbelief – will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Romans 15:12

15:12 And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, and the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles, in him will the Gentiles hope.”

tn Grk “knowing.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

tn The present tense here has been translated as a futuristic present (see ExSyn 536, where this verse is listed as an example).

tn Grk “slavery again to fear.”

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).”

tn Or “in that.”

sn A quotation from Isa 11:10.