Romans 2:14-16

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Romans 2:14 sn Gentile is a NT term for a non-Jew.
2. Romans 2:14 tn Some (e.g. C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans [ICC], 1:135-37) take the phrase φύσει (phusei, “by nature”) to go with the preceding “do not have the law,” thus: “the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature,” that is, by virtue of not being born Jewish.
3. Romans 2:14 tn Grk “do by nature the things of the law.”
4. Romans 2:15 tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was converted to a personal pronoun and, because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
5. Romans 2:15 tn Grk “show the work of the law [to be] written,” with the words in brackets implied by the Greek construction.
6. Romans 2:15 tn Or “excuse.”
7. Romans 2:15 tn Grk “their conscience bearing witness and between the thoughts accusing or also defending one another.”
8. Romans 2:16 tn The form of the Greek word is either present or future, but it is best to translate in future because of the context of future judgment.
9. Romans 2:16 tn Grk “of people.”
10. Romans 2:16 sn On my gospel cf. Rom 16:25; 2 Tim 2:8.