Romans 3:5
Context3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates 1 the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? 2 (I am speaking in human terms.) 3
Romans 5:10
Context5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?
Romans 5:17
Context5:17 For if, by the transgression of the one man, 4 death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!
Romans 6:16
Context6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves 5 as obedient slaves, 6 you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? 7
Romans 7:2
Context7:2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her 8 husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage. 9
Romans 8:11
Context8:11 Moreover if the Spirit of the one 10 who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ 11 from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you. 12
Romans 11:17
Context11:17 Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in 13 the richness of the olive root,
Romans 11:24
Context11:24 For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?
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 13:9
Context13:9 For the commandments, 14 “Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,” 15 (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 16
Romans 14:15
Context14:15 For if your brother or sister 17 is distressed because of what you eat, 18 you are no longer walking in love. 19 Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.
Romans 15:27
Context15:27 For they were pleased to do this, and indeed they are indebted to the Jerusalem saints. 20 For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to minister to them in material things.
1 tn Or “shows clearly.”
2 tn Grk “That God is not unjust to inflict wrath, is he?”
3 sn The same expression occurs in Gal 3:15, and similar phrases in Rom 6:19 and 1 Cor 9:8.
4 sn Here the one man refers to Adam (cf. 5:14).
5 tn Grk “to whom you present yourselves.”
6 tn Grk “as slaves for obedience.” See the note on the word “slave” in 1:1.
7 tn Grk “either of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness.”
8 tn Grk “the,” with the article used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).
9 tn Grk “husband.”
sn Paul’s example of the married woman and the law of the marriage illustrates that death frees a person from obligation to the law. Thus, in spiritual terms, a person who has died to what controlled us (v. 6) has been released from the law to serve God in the new life produced by the Spirit.
10 sn The one who raised Jesus from the dead refers to God (also in the following clause).
11 tc Several
12 tc Most
13 tn Grk “became a participant of.”
14 tn Grk “For the…” (with the word “commandments” supplied for clarity). The Greek article (“the”) is used here as a substantiver to introduce the commands that are quoted from the second half of the Decalogue (ExSyn 238).
15 sn A quotation from Exod 20:13-15, 17; Deut 5:17-19, 21.
16 sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.
17 tn Grk “brother.”
18 tn Grk “on account of food.”
19 tn Grk “according to love.”
20 tn Grk “to them”; the referent (the Jerusalem saints) has been specified in the translation for clarity.