translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ROM

label: NET translator note

text: Grk “may walk in newness of life,” in which ζωῆς ( zwhs ) functions as an attributed genitive (see ExSyn 89-90, where this verse is given as a prime example).


text: Grk “we will certainly also of his resurrection.”


text: Grk “knowing this, that.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.


text: Grk “may be rendered ineffective, inoperative,” or possibly “may be destroyed.” The term καταργέω ( katargew ) has various nuances. In Rom 7:2 the wife whose husband has died is freed from the law (i.e., the law of marriage no longer has any power over her, in spite of what she may feel). A similar point seems to be made here (note v. 7 ).


text: Grk “knowing.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.


text: The present tense here has been translated as a futuristic present (see ExSyn 536, where this verse is listed as an example).


text: includes the infinitive in brackets, indicating doubt as to its authenticity.


text: Greek emphasizes the contrast between these two clauses more than can be easily expressed in English.


text: Or “weapons, tools.”


text: Or “wickedness, injustice.”


text: Grk “to whom you present yourselves.”


text: Grk “as slaves for obedience.” See the note on the word “slave” in 1:1 .


text: Grk “either of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness.”


text: Grk “you were slaves of sin but you obeyed.”


text: Or “type, form.”


text: Or “because of your natural limitations” (NRSV). sn Verse 19 forms something of a parenthetical comment in Paul’s argument.


text: Grk “fruit.”


text: Grk “have,” in a tense emphasizing their customary condition in the past.


text: The two aorist participles translated “freed” and “enslaved” are causal in force; their full force is something like “But now, since you have become freed from sin and since you have become enslaved to God….”


text: A figurative extension of ὀψώνιον ( oywnion ), which refers to a soldier’s pay or wages. Here it refers to the end result of an activity, seen as something one receives back in return. In this case the activity is sin, and the translation “payoff” captures this thought. See also L&N 89.42.