Romans 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 9:11
Context9:11 even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election 5 would stand, not by works but by 6 his calling) 7 –
Romans 11:24
Context11:24 For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?
Romans 15:27
Context15:27 For they were pleased to do this, and indeed they are indebted to the Jerusalem saints. 8 For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to minister to them in material things.
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 “God’s purpose according to election.”
6 tn Or “not based on works but based on…”
7 tn Grk “by the one who calls.”
sn The entire clause is something of a parenthetical remark.
8 tn Grk “to them”; the referent (the Jerusalem saints) has been specified in the translation for clarity.