Romans 1:24-28

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Romans 1:24 sn Possibly an allusion to Ps 81:12.
2. Romans 1:24 tn Or “God delivered them up to the desires of their hearts for impurity.” It is possible that a technical, legal idiom is used here; if so, it would describe God delivering sinners up to a custodian for punishment (see R. Jewett, Romans [Hermeneia], 166-67). In this instance, then, sinners would be given over to their own desires for the express purpose of working more impurity.
3. Romans 1:24 tn The genitive articular infinitive τοῦ ἀτιμάζεσθαι (tou atimazesthai, “to dishonor”) has been taken as (1) an infinitive of purpose; (2) an infinitive of result; or (3) an epexegetical (i.e., explanatory) infinitive, expanding the previous clause.
4. Romans 1:24 tn Grk “among them.”
5. Romans 1:25 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.
6. Romans 1:25 tn Grk “the lie.”
7. Romans 1:25 tn Or “creature, created things.”
8. Romans 1:26 tn Grk “for their females exchanged the natural function for that which is contrary to nature.” The term χρῆσις (chrēsis) has the force of “sexual relations” here (L&N 23.65).
9. Romans 1:27 tn Grk “likewise so also the males abandoning the natural function of the female.”
10. Romans 1:27 tn Grk “burned with intense desire” (L&N 25.16).
11. Romans 1:27 tn Grk “another, men committing…and receiving,” continuing the description of their deeds. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
12. Romans 1:28 tn Grk “and just as they did not approve to have God in knowledge.”
13. Romans 1:28 tn Grk “the things that are improper.”