Discovery BoxRomans 1:32 
Context1:32 Although they fully know 1 God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, 2 they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them. 3
Romans 6:13
Context6:13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments 4 to be used for unrighteousness, 5 but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments 6 to be used for righteousness.
Romans 6:16
Context6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves 7 as obedient slaves, 8 you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? 9
Romans 7:1
Context7:1 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters 10 (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person 11 as long as he lives?
Romans 8:3
Context8:3 For God achieved what the law could not do because 12 it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
Romans 8:26
Context8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, 13 but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.
Romans 11:25
Context11:25 For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, 14 so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel 15 until the full number 16 of the Gentiles has come in.
Romans 12:2
Context12:2 Do not be conformed 17 to this present world, 18 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve 19 what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
Romans 13:4
Context13:4 for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be in fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain. It is God’s servant to administer retribution on the wrongdoer.
Romans 13:11
Context13:11 And do this 20 because we know 21 the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.
Romans 14:15
Context14:15 For if your brother or sister 22 is distressed because of what you eat, 23 you are no longer walking in love. 24 Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.
Romans 14:20
Context14:20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, 25 it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.
Romans 15:27
Context15:27 For they were pleased to do this, and indeed they are indebted to the Jerusalem saints. 26 For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to minister to them in material things.
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 27 of the naive.
1 tn Grk “who, knowing…, not only do them but also approve…” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
2 tn Grk “are worthy of death.”
3 sn “Vice lists” like vv. 28-32 can be found elsewhere in the NT in Matt 15:19; Gal 5:19-21; 1 Tim 1:9-10; and 1 Pet 4:3. An example from the intertestamental period can be found in Wis 14:25-26.
4 tn Or “weapons, tools.”
5 tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”
6 tn Or “weapons, tools.”
7 tn Grk “to whom you present yourselves.”
8 tn Grk “as slaves for obedience.” See the note on the word “slave” in 1:1.
9 tn Grk “either of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness.”
10 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.
11 sn Here person refers to a human being.
12 tn Grk “in that.”
13 tn Or “for we do not know what we ought to pray for.”
14 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.
15 tn Or “Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.”
16 tn Grk “fullness.”
17 tn Although συσχηματίζεσθε (suschmatizesqe) could be either a passive or middle, the passive is more likely since it would otherwise have to be a direct middle (“conform yourselves”) and, as such, would be quite rare for NT Greek. It is very telling that being “conformed” to the present world is viewed as a passive notion, for it may suggest that it happens, in part, subconsciously. At the same time, the passive could well be a “permissive passive,” suggesting that there may be some consciousness of the conformity taking place. Most likely, it is a combination of both.
18 tn Grk “to this age.”
19 sn The verb translated test and approve (δοκιμάζω, dokimazw) carries the sense of “test with a positive outcome,” “test so as to approve.”
20 tn Grk “and this,” probably referring to the command to love (13:8-10); hence, “do” is implied from the previous verses.
21 tn The participle εἰδότες (eidotes) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.
22 tn Grk “brother.”
23 tn Grk “on account of food.”
24 tn Grk “according to love.”
25 sn Here clean refers to food being ceremonially clean.
26 tn Grk “to them”; the referent (the Jerusalem saints) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
27 tn Grk “hearts.”
