Discovery BoxRomans 1:28 
Context1:28 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
Context6:21 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
Context8:15 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
Context9:30 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
Context10:3 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
Context15:3 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
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.”
