Romans 1:5
Romans 1:55Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.
Watchtower teaching cites ("apostleship with a view to obedience by faith among all the nations") to support the view that genuine Christian faith is demonstrated by obedience — including specifically the obedience of accepting and preaching the message authorised by Jehovah's organisation. The verse is read as making obedience constitutive of, not merely consequent to, Christian standing.
This is one of Paul's two bracket-verses for the entire epistle. He opens with "obedience by faith among all the nations" (1:5) and closes with the identical phrase (16:26). The Greek hupakoē pisteōs is a single concept — "the obedience that IS faith," or "obedience consisting in faith." Paul makes this explicit at : "they have not all obeyed the good news. For Isaiah says: 'Lord, who has put faith in the thing heard from us?'" Obedience to the gospel and faith in the gospel are the same act. ("eternal salvation to all who obey him") uses the same vocabulary. The Watchtower hears "obedience" and imports a lifetime of organisational compliance; Paul means the initial obedient surrender of trust.
The NWT renders charis as "undeserved kindness" — consensus reads "grace" (ESV/NASB/NIV/KJV). The expansion makes the recipient's unworthiness explicit but flattens the relational and gift-creating dimensions of grace into merit-language ("kindness you didn't earn"). Grace in the Pauline sense creates a new covenantal status that "kindness" does not capture. The choice is consistent across the NWT (compare Rom 1:7, 5:20).