Romans 1:13 Cross References - Moffatt

¹³ Brothers, I would like you to understand that I have often purposed to come to you (though up till now I have been prevented) so as to have some results among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.

³⁶ The reaper is already getting his wages and harvesting for eternal life, so that the sower shares the reaper's joy.

²⁴ Truly, truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains a single grain; but if it dies, it bears rich fruit.

¹⁶ You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit — fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name.

²⁷ On their arrival they gathered the church together and reported how God had been with them, what he had done, and how he had opened a door into faith for the Gentiles.

¹² So the whole meeting was quieted and listened to Barnabas and Paul recounting the signs and wonders God had performed by them among the Gentiles.

⁶ They crossed Phrygia and the country of Galatia, the holy Spirit having stopped them from preaching the word in Asia; ⁷ when they got as far as Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them,

²¹ After these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to travel through Macedonia and Achaia on his way to Jerusalem. "After I get there," he said, "I must also visit Rome."

¹⁹ and after saluting them Paul described in detail what God had done by means of his ministry among the Gentiles.

²⁵ To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.

¹⁸ I will not make free to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished by me in the way of securing the obedience of the Gentiles, by my words and by my deeds, ¹⁹ by the force of miracles and marvels, by the power of the Spirit of God. Thus from Jerusalem right round to Illyricum, I have been able to complete the preaching of the gospel of Christ — ²⁰ my ambition always being to preach it only in places where there had been no mention of Christ's name, that I might not build on foundations laid by others,

²² This is why I have been so often prevented from visiting you. ²³ But now, as I have no further scope for work in these parts, and as for a number of years I have had a longing to visit you ²⁴ whenever I went to Spain, I am hoping to see you on my way there, and to be sped forward by you after I have enjoyed your company for a while. ²⁵ At the moment I am off to Jerusalem on an errand to the saints. ²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia have decided to make a contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem. ²⁷ Such was their decision; and yet this is a debt they owe to these people, for if the Gentiles have shared their spiritual blessings, they owe them a debt of aid in material blessings. ²⁸ Well, once I finish this business by putting the proceeds of the collection safely in their hands, I will start for Spain and take you on the way.

² To other people I may be no apostle, but to you I am, for you are the seal set upon my apostleship in the Lord.

¹ For I would have you know this, my brothers, that while our fathers all lived under the cloud, all crossed through the sea,

¹ But I want you to understand about spiritual gifts, brothers.

⁸ Now I would like you to know about the distress which befell me in Asia, brothers. I was crushed, crushed far more than I could stand, so much so that I despaired even of life;

¹⁵ Relying on this I meant to visit you first, to let you have a double delight; ¹⁶ I intended to take you on my way to Macedonia, and to visit you again on my way back from Macedonia, so as to be sped by you on my journey to Judaea.

¹⁴ Wherever I go, thank God, he makes my life a constant pageant of triumph in Christ, diffusing the perfume of his knowledge everywhere by me.

¹³ and so my boasting never goes beyond the limit — it is determined by the limits of the sphere marked out for me by God. That sphere stretches to include yourselves; ¹⁴ I am not overstepping the limit, as if you lay beyond my sphere; I was the very first to reach you with the gospel of Christ. ¹⁵ I do not boast beyond my limits in a sphere where other men have done the work; my hope rather is that the growth of your faith will allow me to enlarge the range of my appointed sphere ¹⁶ and preach the gospel in the lands that lie beyond you, instead of boasting within another's province over work that is already done.

¹⁷ It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit!

⁶ which has reached you as it spreads over all the world with fruit and increase. Such has been your life from the day you learned to know what God's grace really is.

⁸ for the word of the Lord has resounded from you not only through Macedonia and Achaia — no, your faith in God has reached every place. We never need to speak about it. ⁹ People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God ¹⁰ and to wait for the coming of his Son from heaven — the Son whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who rescues us from the Wrath to come.

¹³ We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers, ¹⁴ for you have started, my brothers, to copy the churches of God in Christ Jesus throughout Judaea; you have suffered from your compatriots just as they have suffered from the Jews,

¹⁸ (We did want to reach you — I did, I Paul, more than once — but Satan stopped us.)

¹³ We would like you, brothers, to understand about those who are asleep in death. You must not grieve for them, like the rest of men who have no hope.

⁷ For the secret force of lawlessness is at work already; only, it cannot be revealed till he who at present restrains it is removed.

¹⁷ But the Lord supported me and gave me strength to make a full statement of the gospel and let all the heathen hear it. I was rescued from the jaws of the lion.