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 1:14

1:14 I am a debtor ²  both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Roma 2:5

2:5 But because of your stubbornness ³  and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! ⁴ 

Roma 12:5

12:5 so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

Roma 14:20

14:20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, ⁵  it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

Roma 16:23

16:23 Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.

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

[1:14]  ² tn Or “obligated.”

[2:5]  ³ tn Grk “hardness.” Concerning this imagery, see Jer 4:4; Ezek 3:7; 1 En. 16:3.

[2:5]  ⁴ tn Grk “in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.”

[14:20]  ⁵ sn Here clean refers to food being ceremonially clean.