Episode
Working Together for Good, with Joseph Dodson: Romans 8:28
- Podcast
- Exegetically Speaking
- Published
- Jan 26, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 566
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/exegetically-speaking-336484/episodes/working-together-for-good-with-joseph-dodson-romans-8-28/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/exegetically-speaking-336484/working-together-for-good-with-joseph-dodson-romans-8-28.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Many translations render Rom. 8:28 as, "all things work together for good." The NLT renders the same words as, "God causes everything to work together," a construal that is represented in some ancient Greek manuscripts. Yet another possibility would be, "the Spirit works all things together." What explains these differences? A past contributor to this podcast, Joseph Dodson is the Dr. Craig L. Blomberg Chair of New Testament at Denver Seminary. In addition to other publications, he has written Paul the Rabbi Philosopher: Stoic and Jewish Philosophy in the Apostle's Thought , and (with Mattie Mae Motl) Conquerors Not Captives: Reframing Romans 7 for the Christian Life . He is working on commentaries on Romans (Brill) and Colossians-Philemon (Holman). Check out related programs at Wheaton College: B.A. in Classical Languages (Greek, Latin, Hebrew): https://bit.ly/4k1MKJ0 M.A. in Biblical Exegesis: https://bit.ly/45tWh5s