Roma 1:8

Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome

1:8 First of all, ¹  I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

Roma 3:27

3:27 Where, then, is boasting? ²  It is excluded! By what principle? ³  Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

Roma 8:20

8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility – not willingly but because of God ⁴  who subjected it – in hope

[1:8]  ¹ tn Grk “First.” Paul never mentions a second point, so J. B. Phillips translated “I must begin by telling you….”

[3:27]  ² tn Although a number of interpreters understand the “boasting” here to refer to Jewish boasting, others (e.g. C. E. B. Cranfield, “‘The Works of the Law’ in the Epistle to the Romans,” JSNT 43 [1991]: 96) take the phrase to refer to all human boasting before God.

[3:27]  ³ tn Grk “By what sort of law?”

[8:20]  ⁴ tn Grk “because of the one”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.