Discovery BoxRomans 2:12 
Context2:12 For all who have sinned apart from the law 1 will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Romans 2:15
Context2:15 They 2 show that the work of the law is written 3 in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend 4 them, 5
Romans 4:9
Context4:9 Is this blessedness 6 then for 7 the circumcision 8 or also for 9 the uncircumcision? For we say, “faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.” 10
Romans 6:14
Context6:14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 8:15
Context8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, 11 but you received the Spirit of adoption, 12 by whom 13 we cry, “Abba, Father.”
Romans 9:18
Context9:18 So then, 14 God 15 has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden. 16
Romans 9:32
Context9:32 Why not? Because they pursued 17 it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. 18 They stumbled over the stumbling stone, 19
Romans 12:6
Context12:6 And we have different gifts 20 according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.
1 sn This is the first occurrence of law (nomos) in Romans. Exactly what Paul means by the term has been the subject of much scholarly debate. According to J. A. Fitzmyer (Romans [AB], 131-35; 305-6) there are at least four different senses: (1) figurative, as a “principle”; (2) generic, meaning “a law”; (3) as a reference to the OT or some part of the OT; and (4) as a reference to the Mosaic law. This last usage constitutes the majority of Paul’s references to “law” in Romans.
2 tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was converted to a personal pronoun and, because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
3 tn Grk “show the work of the law [to be] written,” with the words in brackets implied by the Greek construction.
4 tn Or “excuse.”
5 tn Grk “their conscience bearing witness and between the thoughts accusing or also defending one another.”
6 tn Or “happiness.”
7 tn Grk “upon.”
8 sn See the note on “circumcision” in 2:25.
9 tn Grk “upon.”
10 sn A quotation from Gen 15:6.
11 tn Grk “slavery again to fear.”
12 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).”
13 tn Or “in that.”
14 sn There is a double connective here that cannot be easily preserved in English: “consequently therefore,” emphasizing the conclusion of what he has been arguing.
15 tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
16 tn Grk “So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.”
17 tn Grk “Why? Because not by faith but as though by works.” The verb (“they pursued [it]”) is to be supplied from the preceding verse for the sake of English style; yet a certain literary power is seen in Paul’s laconic style.
18 tc Most
tn Grk “but as by works.”
19 tn Grk “the stone of stumbling.”
20 tn This word comes from the same root as “grace” in the following clause; it means “things graciously given,” “grace-gifts.”
