A fourth theme that Paul touches on in these verses comes in verse 5 where he brings together two key words: the word “obedience” and the word “faith.” In the Greek there’s a genitive construction that binds the two. And those genitive constructions, as some of you know, are often very difficult to sort out. We’ll be talking about a number of them in Romans. So how does Paul want us to understand the relationship of obedience and faith? I would suggest that Paul deliberately creates a bit of an ambiguity