Discovery BoxRomans 1:4 
Context1:4 who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power 1 according to the Holy Spirit 2 by the resurrection 3 from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 1:7
Context1:7 To all those loved by God in Rome, 4 called to be saints: 5 Grace and peace to you 6 from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
Romans 6:9
Context6:9 We know 7 that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die 8 again; death no longer has mastery over him.
Romans 6:17
Context6:17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed 9 from the heart that pattern 10 of teaching you were entrusted to,
Romans 6:23
Context6:23 For the payoff 11 of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:39
Context8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 10:9
Context10:9 because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord 12 and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 14:9
Context14:9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
Romans 15:6
Context15:6 so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:30
Context15:30 Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, 13 through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.
Romans 16:12
Context16:12 Greet Tryphena 14 and Tryphosa, laborers in the Lord. Greet my dear friend 15 Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.
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 16 of the naive.
1 sn Appointed the Son-of-God-in-power. Most translations render the Greek participle ὁρισθέντος (Jorisqentos, from ὁρίζω, Jorizw) “declared” or “designated” in order to avoid the possible interpretation that Jesus was appointed the Son of God by the resurrection. However, the Greek term ὁρίζω is used eight times in the NT, and it always has the meaning “to determine, appoint.” Paul is not saying that Jesus was appointed the “Son of God by the resurrection” but “Son-of-God-in-power by the resurrection,” as indicated by the hyphenation. He was born in weakness in human flesh (with respect to the flesh, v. 3) and he was raised with power. This is similar to Matt 28:18 where Jesus told his disciples after the resurrection, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”
2 tn Grk “spirit of holiness.” Some interpreters take the phrase to refer to Christ’s own inner spirit, which was characterized by holiness.
3 tn Or “by his resurrection.” Most interpreters see this as a reference to Jesus’ own resurrection, although some take it to refer to the general resurrection at the end of the age, of which Jesus’ resurrection is the first installment (cf. 1 Cor 15:23).
4 map For location see JP4 A1.
5 tn Although the first part of v. 7 is not a complete English sentence, it maintains the “From…to” pattern used in all the Pauline letters to indicate the sender and the recipients. Here, however, there are several intervening verses (vv. 2-6), which makes the first half of v. 7 appear as an isolated sentence fragment.
6 tn Grk “Grace to you and peace.”
7 tn Grk “knowing.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
8 tn The present tense here has been translated as a futuristic present (see ExSyn 536, where this verse is listed as an example).
9 tn Grk “you were slaves of sin but you obeyed.”
10 tn Or “type, form.”
11 tn A figurative extension of ὀψώνιον (oywnion), which refers to a soldier’s pay or wages. Here it refers to the end result of an activity, seen as something one receives back in return. In this case the activity is sin, and the translation “payoff” captures this thought. See also L&N 89.42.
12 tn Or “the Lord.” The Greek construction, along with the quotation from Joel 2:32 in v. 13 (in which the same “Lord” seems to be in view) suggests that κύριον (kurion) is to be taken as “the Lord,” that is, Yahweh. Cf. D. B. Wallace, “The Semantics and Exegetical Significance of the Object-Complement Construction in the New Testament,” GTJ 6 (1985): 91-112.
13 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.
14 sn The spelling Tryphena is also used by NIV, NKJV, NLT; the name is alternately spelled Tryphaena (NASB, NRSV).
15 tn Grk “Greet the beloved.”
16 tn Grk “hearts.”
