Roma 8:7
Konteks8:7 because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.
Roma 8:15
Konteks8:15 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.”
Roma 14:17
Konteks14:17 For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
[8:15] 1 tn Grk “slavery again to fear.”
[8:15] 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).”