Romans 16:19 Cross References - Haweis

¹⁹ For your obedience is gone forth in report to all men. I rejoice therefore on your account: but I wish you to be wise indeed unto good, but harmless respecting evil.

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore prudent as serpents, and harmless as doves.

³ Go forth! behold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.

⁸ First then I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all, because your faith is proclaimed through the whole world.

²⁰ Brethren, be not children in your minds: though in naughtiness be ye children, but in your minds be men complete.

¹⁵ For this cause I also, since I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love ye have to all saints, ¹⁶ have not ceased offering up my praises for you, making mention of you in my prayers, ¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation by the knowledge of him; ¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he hath called you, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance for the saints,

¹⁷ Therefore be not unwise, but intelligent concerning what is the will of the Lord.

⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding;

¹⁵ that ye may be blameless and harmless, the children of God, inoffensive, in the midst of an untoward and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world;

³ We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you, ⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love ye show to all the saints; ⁵ because of the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye have heard before in the word of truth, the gospel, ⁶ which is come unto you, as it is also unto all the world; and beareth fruit, as also among you, from the day that ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth; ⁷ even as ye have learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-labourer, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you; ⁸ who also declared to us your love in the Spirit. ⁹ For this cause we also from the day we heard it have not ceased praying for you, and beseeching God that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing with grace in your heart unto the Lord.

² We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; ³ without ceasing calling to mind your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

⁸ For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only into Macedonia and Achaia, but into every region also your fidelity towards God is gone out, so that we have no need to say any thing. ⁹ For they publish concerning you what manner of entrance we had unto you, and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

⁶ But now when Timothy returned to us from you, and brought us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye retain a kind remembrance of us always, earnestly desirous to see us, as we are also to see you: ⁷ for this cause we have felt consolation, brethren, in you under all our tribulation and distress, because of your fidelity. ⁸ For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. ⁹ For what sufficient thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God, ¹⁰ night and day most fervently praying that we may see your face, and amply supply the deficiencies of your faith?

¹⁵ and that from a child thou hast known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Jesus Christ. ¹⁶ All scripture is given by the inspiration of God, and advantageous for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness ¹⁷ that the man of God may be properly furnished, fully qualified for every good work.

¹³ Who is a wise man and intelligent among you, let him shew in a becoming conduct his works with the meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if ye have bitter envy and contention in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth. ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which cometh from above, but is earthly, sensual, diabolical. ¹⁶ For where envy and contention dwell, there is tumult and every vile deed. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, meek, easily persuadable, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, and void of dissimulation. ¹⁸ But the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for those who are peacemakers.