Discovery BoxRomans 1:11-12 
Context1:11 For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift 1 to strengthen you, 1:12 that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, 2 both yours and mine.
Romans 5:20
Context5:20 Now the law came in 3 so that the transgression 4 may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
Romans 11:10
Context11:10 let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see,
and make their backs bend continually.” 5
Romans 11:32
Context11:32 For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all. 6
Romans 15:5-6
Context15:5 Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another 7 in accordance with Christ Jesus, 15:6 so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:32
Context15:32 so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
1 sn Paul does not mean here that he is going to bestow upon the Roman believers what is commonly known as a “spiritual gift,” that is, a special enabling for service given to believers by the Holy Spirit. Instead, this is either a metonymy of cause for effect (Paul will use his own spiritual gifts to edify the Romans), or it simply means something akin to a blessing or benefit in the spiritual realm. It is possible that Paul uses this phrase to connote specifically the broader purpose of his letter, which is for the Romans to understand his gospel, but this seems less likely.
2 tn Grk “that is, to be comforted together with you through the faith in one another.”
3 tn Grk “slipped in.”
4 tn Or “trespass.”
5 sn A quotation from Ps 69:22-23.
6 tn Grk “to all”; “them” has been supplied for stylistic reasons.
7 tn Grk “grant you to think the same among one another.”
