Discovery BoxRomans 1:5 
Context1:5 Through him 1 we have received grace and our apostleship 2 to bring about the obedience 3 of faith 4 among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.
Romans 5:11
Context5:11 Not 5 only this, but we also rejoice 6 in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.
Romans 8:15
Context8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, 7 but you received the Spirit of adoption, 8 by whom 9 we cry, “Abba, Father.”
1 tn Grk “through whom.”
2 tn Some interpreters understand the phrase “grace and apostleship” as a hendiadys, translating “grace [i.e., gift] of apostleship.” The pronoun “our” is supplied in the translation to clarify the sense of the statement.
3 tn Grk “and apostleship for obedience.”
4 tn The phrase ὑπακοὴν πίστεως has been variously understood as (1) an objective genitive (a reference to the Christian faith, “obedience to [the] faith”); (2) a subjective genitive (“the obedience faith produces [or requires]”); (3) an attributive genitive (“believing obedience”); or (4) as a genitive of apposition (“obedience, [namely] faith”) in which “faith” further defines “obedience.” These options are discussed by C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans (ICC), 1:66. Others take the phrase as deliberately ambiguous; see D. B. Garlington, “The Obedience of Faith in the Letter to the Romans: Part I: The Meaning of ὑπακοὴ πίστεως (Rom 1:5; 16:26),” WTJ 52 (1990): 201-24.
5 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
6 tn Or “exult, boast.”
7 tn Grk “slavery again to fear.”
8 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).”
9 tn Or “in that.”
