Romans 15:1-6
AN ADMONITION TO PATIENCE AND HARMONY. Christians should not please themselves:... [ Continue Reading ]
AN ADMONITION TO PATIENCE AND HARMONY. Christians should not please themselves:... [ Continue Reading ]
WE, THEN, THAT ARE STRONG OUGHT TO BEAR THE INFIRMITIES OF THE WEAK AND NOT TO PLEASE OURSELVES.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET EVERY ONE OF US PLEASE HIS NEIGHBOR FOR HIS GOOD, TO EDIFICATION.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR EVEN CHRIST PLEASED NOT HIMSELF; BUT, AS IT IS WRITTEN, THE REPROACHES OF THEM THAT REPROACHED THEE FELL ON ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHATSOEVER THINGS WERE WRITTEN AFORETIME WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING, THAT WE THROUGH PATIENCE AND COMFORT OF THE SCRIPTURES MIGHT HAVE HOPE.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THE GOD OF PATIENCE AND CONSOLATION GRANT YOU TO BE LIKE-MINDED ONE TOWARD ANOTHER ACCORDING TO CHRIST JESUS,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT YE MAY WITH ONE MIND AND ONE MOUTH GLORIFY GOD, EVEN THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. In the preceding section Paul had spoken of things indifferent and of the consideration which the strong in faith ought to show to the weak in this respect. He now extends the notion of strong and weak som... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE RECEIVE YE ONE ANOTHER, AS CHRIST ALSO RECEIVED US TO THE GLORY OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
Brotherly harmony makes the common praise of God possible:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW I SAY THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS A MINISTER OF THE CIRCUMCISION FOR THE TRUTH OF GOD TO CONFIRM THE PROMISES MADE UNTO THE FATHERS,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THAT THE GENTILES MIGHT GLORIFY GOD FOR HIS MERCY, AS IT IS WRITTEN, FOR THIS CAUSE I WILL CONFESS TO THEE AMONG THE GENTILES AND SING UNTO THY NAME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AGAIN HE SAITH, REJOICE, YE GENTILES, WITH HIS PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AGAIN, PRAISE THE LORD, ALL YE GENTILES; AND LAUD HIM, ALL YE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AGAIN, ESAIAS SAITH, THERE SHALL BE A ROOT OF JESSE, AND HE THAT SHALL RISE TO REIGN OVER THE GENTILES; IN HIM SHALL THE GENTILES TRUST.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THE GOD OF HOPE FILL YOU WITH ALL JOY AND PEACE IN BELIEVING, THAT YE MAY ABOUND IN HOPE, THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST! Therefore, in order that such praise might be possible, and that the object of such harmonious praise be attained, receive, welcome, one another; let both parties show t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I MYSELF ALSO AM PERSUADED OF YOU, MY BRETHREN, THAT YE ALSO ARE FULL OF GOODNESS, FILLED WITH ALL KNOWLEDGE, ABLE ALSO TO ADMONISH ONE ANOTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE EPILOG OF THE LETTER. Paul's reason for writing:... [ Continue Reading ]
NEVERTHELESS, BRETHREN, I HAVE WRITTEN THE MORE BOLDLY UNTO YOU IN SOME SORT, AS PUTTING YOU IN MIND BECAUSE OF THE GRACE THAT IS GIVEN TO ME OR GOD,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT I SHOULD BE THE MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE GENTILES, MINISTERING THE GOSPEL OF GOD, THAT THE OFFERING UP OF THE GENTILES MIGHT BE ACCEPTABLE, BEING SANCTIFIED BY THE HOLY GHOST. The apostle now, having finished both instruction and admonition to the Christians of Rome, with his usual mildn... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE, THEREFORE, WHEREOF I MAY GLORY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST IN THOSE THINGS WHICH PERTAIN TO GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul's praise of his apostleship:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I WILL NOT DARE TO SPEAK OF ANY OF THOSE THINGS WHICH CHRIST HATH NOT WROUGHT BY ME TO MAKE THE GENTILES OBEDIENT BY WORD AND DEED,... [ Continue Reading ]
THROUGH MIGHTY SIGNS AND WONDERS, BY THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, SO THAT FROM JERUSALEM AND ROUND ABOUT UNTO ILLYRICUM I HAVE FULLY PREACHED THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
YEA, SO HAVE I STRIVED TO PREACH THE GOSPEL, NOT WHERE CHRIST WAS NAMED, LEST I SHOULD BUILD UPON ANOTHER MAN'S FOUNDATION;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AS IT IS WRITTEN, TO WHOM HE WAS NOT SPOKEN OF, THEY SHALL SEE, AND THEY THAT HAVE NOT HEARD SHALL UNDERSTAND. The apostle is anxious to have his readers understand just what this gift of his apostleship includes, and why it was incumbent upon him to write so boldly in both instruction and exhor... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHICH CAUSE ALSO I HAVE BEEN MUCH HINDERED FROM COMING TO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
The reasons which hindered Paul's visit to Rome:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW HAVING NO MORE PLACE IN THESE PARTS, AND HAVING A GREAT DESIRE THESE MANY YEARS TO COME UNTO YOU,... [ Continue Reading ]
WHENSOEVER I TAKE MY JOURNEY INTO SPAIN, I WILL COME TO YOU; FOR I TRUST TO SEE YOU IN MY JOURNEY, AND TO BE BROUGHT ON MY WAY THITHERWARD BY YOU, IF FIRST I BE SOMEWHAT FILLED WITH YOUR COMPANY.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW I GO UNTO JERUSALEM TO MINISTER UNTO THE SAINTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT HATH PLEASED THEM OF MACEDONIA AND ACHAIA TO MAKE A CERTAIN CONTRIBUTION FOR THE POOR SAINTS WHICH ARE AT JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT HATH PLEASED THEM VERILY; AND THEIR DEBTORS THEY ARE. FOR IF THE GENTILES HAVE BEEN MADE PARTAKERS OF THEIR SPIRITUAL THINGS, THEIR DUTY IS ALSO TO MINISTER UNTO THEM IN CARNAL THINGS. For this reason, because Paul had desired to make Christ known where He had not been preached before, he had bee... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN, THEREFORE, I HAVE PERFORMED THIS, AND HAVE SEALED TO THEM THIS FRUIT, I WILL COME BY YOU INTO SPAIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
A word in conclusion:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I AM SURE THAT, WHEN I COME UNTO YOU, I SHALL COME IN THE FULLNESS OF THE BLESSING OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW I BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST'S SAKE AND FOR THE LOVE OF THE SPIRIT THAT YE STRIVE TOGETHER WITH ME IN YOUR PRAYERS TO GOD FOR ME,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT I MAY BE DELIVERED FROM THEM THAT DO NOT BELIEVE IN JUDEA, AND THAT MY SERVICE WHICH I HAVE FOR JERUSALEM MAY BE ACCEPTED OF THE SAINTS;... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT I MAY COME UNTO YOU WITH JOY BY THE WILL OF GOD, AND MAY WITH YOU BE REFRESHED.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THE GOD OF PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL! AMEN. The trip to Jerusalem had to be taken first, that plan could not be changed. But as soon as Paul had brought this business to its end and consigned, safely delivered, into the hands of the members of the church in Jerusalem this fruit of love, as the coll... [ Continue Reading ]