Search results for: Romans 8:1–18

Romans 15:11 (NIV)

And again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; let all the peoples extol him.”

Romans 15:12 (NIV)

And again, Isaiah says, “The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; in him the Gentiles will hope.”

Romans 15:14 (NIV)

I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another.

Romans 15:15 (NIV)

Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:17 (NIV)

Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God.

Romans 15:18 (NIV)

I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done—

Romans 15:19 (NIV)

by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

Romans 15:20 (NIV)

It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.

Romans 15:21 (NIV)

Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

Romans 15:22 (NIV)

This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

Romans 15:23 (NIV)

But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you,

Romans 15:24 (NIV)

I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to see you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while.

Romans 15:25 (NIV)

Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem in the service of the Lord’s people there.

Romans 15:26 (NIV)

For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord’s people in Jerusalem.

Romans 15:27 (NIV)

They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews’ spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings.

Romans 15:28 (NIV)

So after I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received this contribution, I will go to Spain and visit you on the way.

Romans 15:29 (NIV)

I know that when I come to you, I will come in the full measure of the blessing of Christ.

Romans 15:30 (NIV)

I urge you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.

Romans 15:31 (NIV)

Pray that I may be kept safe from the unbelievers in Judea and that the contribution I take to Jerusalem may be favorably received by the Lord’s people there,

Romans 15:32 (NIV)

so that I may come to you with joy, by God’s will, and in your company be refreshed.

Romans 15:33 (NIV)

The God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Romans 16:1 (NIV)

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae.

Romans 16:2 (NIV)

I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me.

Romans 16:3 (NIV)

Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus.