Discovery BoxRomans 1:21 
Context1:21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts 1 were darkened.
Romans 1:27
Context1:27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women 2 and were inflamed in their passions 3 for one another. Men 4 committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Romans 8:5
Context8:5 For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by 5 the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.
Romans 16:18
Context16:18 For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds 6 of the naive.
1 tn Grk “heart.”
2 tn Grk “likewise so also the males abandoning the natural function of the female.”
3 tn Grk “burned with intense desire” (L&N 25.16).
4 tn Grk “another, men committing…and receiving,” continuing the description of their deeds. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
5 tn Grk “think on” or “are intent on” (twice in this verse). What is in view here is not primarily preoccupation, however, but worldview. Translations like “set their mind on” could be misunderstood by the typical English reader to refer exclusively to preoccupation.
6 tn Grk “hearts.”
