diff --git a/rom/09/03.md b/rom/09/03.md
index 8136c17931..cecb16b51d 100644
--- a/rom/09/03.md
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@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
-# For I could wish that I myself would be cursed and set apart from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race according to the flesh
+# For I could wish that I myself would be cursed and set apart from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh
 
 You can translate this in an active form. Alternate translation: "I personally would be willing to let God curse me and keep me apart from Christ forever if that would help my fellow Israelites, my own people group, to believe in Christ" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
 
-# brothers
-
-Here this means fellow Christians, including both men and women.
-
diff --git a/rom/09/06.md b/rom/09/06.md
index 8ef645836c..9793b276fd 100644
--- a/rom/09/06.md
+++ b/rom/09/06.md
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
 Paul emphasizes that those who are born in the family of Israel can really only be a true part of Israel through faith.
 
-# But it is not as though the promises of God have failed
+# But it is not as though the word of God has failed
 
-"But God has not failed to keep his promises" or "God has kept his promises"
+The word "word" is a metonym for the promise that God used the words to make. Alternate translation: "But we should not think that God has failed to keep his promises" or "We should know that God has kept his promises"  (See [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
 
 # For it is not everyone in Israel who truly belongs to Israel
 
diff --git a/rom/09/21.md b/rom/09/21.md
index 08585accd0..7e544ea660 100644
--- a/rom/09/21.md
+++ b/rom/09/21.md
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
-# Does the potter not have the right ... for daily use?
-This rhetorical question is a rebuke. Alternate translation: "The potter certainlly has the right ... for daily use." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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+# Does the potter not have the right ... for dishonorable use?
+
+This rhetorical question is a rebuke. Alternate translation: "The potter certainlly has the right ... for dishonorable use." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
+
+# honorable use ... dishonorable use
+
+Some versions read, "special use ... daily use."
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diff --git a/rom/09/28.md b/rom/09/28.md
index 1110b6d8c4..17c7e4f692 100644
--- a/rom/09/28.md
+++ b/rom/09/28.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# the Lord will carry out his sentence on the earth
+# the Lord will execute his word on the earth
 
-Here "sentence" refers to how he has decided to punish people. Alternate translation: "the Lord will punish people on the earth as he has said he will"
+"the Lord will punish people on the earth as he has said he will"
 
diff --git a/rom/09/31.md b/rom/09/31.md
index 98eb215535..5660c83442 100644
--- a/rom/09/31.md
+++ b/rom/09/31.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# did not arrive at it
+# did not arrive at that law
 
 This means that the Israelites could not please God by trying to keep the law. You can make this explicit in your translation. Alternate translation: "were not able to please God by keeping the law because they could not keep it" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
 
diff --git a/rom/10/16.md b/rom/10/16.md
index ebbf16b7fb..b383a68fec 100644
--- a/rom/10/16.md
+++ b/rom/10/16.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Here "they" refers to the Jews. "not all of the Jews obeyed"
 
 Paul is using this question, which Isaiah prophesied in the Scriptures, to emphasize that many Jews would not believe in Jesus. You can translate this as a statement. Alternate translation: "Lord, so many of them do not believe our message!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
 
-# what they have heard from us
+# our report
 
-Here, "us" refers to God and Isaiah.
+Here, "our" refers to God and Isaiah and so is inclusive. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-inclusive]])