Discovery BoxRomans 1:8 
Context1:8 First of all, 1 I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
Romans 5:12-13
Context5:12 So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people 2 because 3 all sinned – 5:13 for before the law was given, 4 sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin 5 when there is no law.
Romans 11:12
Context11:12 Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration 6 bring?
1 tn Grk “First.” Paul never mentions a second point, so J. B. Phillips translated “I must begin by telling you….”
2 tn Here ἀνθρώπους (anqrwpou") has been translated as a generic (“people”) since both men and women are clearly intended in this context.
3 tn The translation of the phrase ἐφ᾿ ᾧ (ef Jw) has been heavily debated. For a discussion of all the possibilities, see C. E. B. Cranfield, “On Some of the Problems in the Interpretation of Romans 5.12,” SJT 22 (1969): 324-41. Only a few of the major options can be mentioned here: (1) the phrase can be taken as a relative clause in which the pronoun refers to Adam, “death spread to all people in whom [Adam] all sinned.” (2) The phrase can be taken with consecutive (resultative) force, meaning “death spread to all people with the result that all sinned.” (3) Others take the phrase as causal in force: “death spread to all people because all sinned.”
4 tn Grk “for before the law.”
5 tn Or “sin is not reckoned.”
6 tn Or “full inclusion”; Grk “their fullness.”
