Romans Chapter 1 Vs. 4

Greeting

And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: Rom 1:4

And declared to... Greek: horizo, marked out, manifested to be God’s Son by a display of power (Acts 10:38; John 10:10; Luke 4:18-21).

according to the... Greek: kata, according to, or through the Holy Spirit who raised Him from the dead to prove to all people that He was the true Messiah and Savior of all mankind (Acts 2:22-36; 3:15, 3:26; 4:10; 5:30; 17:31). The Jews crucified Jesus because He claimed to be the Son of God (note, John 8:40). God resurrected Him because He was the Son of God (Rom. 1:4).

God’s good news concerns His Son, identified as Jesus Christ our Lord. This asserts Christ’s deity as basic to His person and prior to His Incarnation, since His identification with David’s line “came to be,” a literal rendering of the participle genomenou, translated was. He was genuinely human too, as His tie with David and His resurrection from the dead show. That resurrection declared Him to be the Son of God because it validated His claims to deity and His predictions that He would rise from the dead (John 2:18-22; Mat. 16:21). This declaration was made through (lit., “in accord with”) the Spirit of holiness. This is the Holy Spirit, and not, as some have suggested, Christ’s human spirit.