translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ROM

label: NET translator note

text: Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13 .


text: Grk “the,” with the article used as a possessive pronoun ( ExSyn 215).


text: Grk “husband.” sn Paul’s example of the married woman and the law of the marriage illustrates that death frees a person from obligation to the law. Thus, in spiritual terms, a person who has died to what controlled us (v. 6 ) has been released from the law to serve God in the new life produced by the Spirit.


text: There is a double connective here that cannot be easily preserved in English: “consequently therefore,” emphasizing the conclusion of what he has been arguing.


text: Grk “that we might bear fruit to God.”


text: That is, before we were in Christ.


text: Or “sinful passions.”


text: Grk “our members”; the words “of our body” have been supplied to clarify the meaning.


text: Grk “having died.” The participle ἀποθανόντες ( apoqanonte" ) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.


text: Grk “in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.”


text: Grk “I would not have known covetousness.”


text: Or “covetousness.”


text: Here καί ( kai ) has been translated as “So” to indicate the result of the statement in the previous verse. Greek style often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” but English style generally does not.


text: Grk “and there was found in/for me the commandment which was for life – this was for death.”


text: Or “and through it killed me.”


text: Grk “under sin.”


text: Grk “but what I hate, this I do.”


text: Grk “I agree with the law that it is good.”


text: Grk “For to wish is present in/with me, but not to do it.”


text: Ψ 33 81 104 365 1506 pc ), but it should probably not be considered original. The ms support for the omission of δέ is both excellent and widespread ( א * A B D 1739 1881 Ï lat sy), and its addition can be explained as an insertion to smooth out the transition between v. 24 and 25 .


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


text: The words “I serve” have been repeated here for clarity.