Romans 8:15
Context8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, 1 but you received the Spirit of adoption, 2 by whom 3 we cry, “Abba, Father.”
Romans 11:31
Context11:31 so they too have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now 4 receive mercy.
Romans 13:3
Context13:3 (for rulers cause no fear for good conduct but for bad). Do you desire not to fear authority? Do good and you will receive its commendation,
1 tn Grk “slavery again to fear.”
2 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).”
3 tn Or “in that.”
4 tc Some important Alexandrian and Western