Romans 15:17 Cross References - ACV

¹⁷ I have therefore a boast in Christ Jesus in things toward God.

² For if Abraham was made righteous from works, he has a boast, but not before God.

¹⁴ And thanks is to God who always causes us to triumph in the Christ, and who makes manifest the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place, through us. ¹⁵ Because we are a fragrance of Christ to God, in those being saved and in those perishing: ¹⁶ to the one an odor of death for death, and to the other an aroma of life for life. And who is adequate for these things?

⁴ And we have such confidence toward God through Christ, ⁵ not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, ⁶ who also made us qualified helpers of a new covenant, not of a document, but of a Spirit, for the document kills but the Spirit makes alive.

⁴ Great is my boldness toward you, great is my pride for you. I have been filled with encouragement. I over-abound with joy in all our affliction.

¹⁶ I say again, let not any man think me to be foolish, but if otherwise-even if as foolish-accept me, so that I also may boast some a little. ¹⁷ What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of the boast. ¹⁸ Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast. ¹⁹ For being wise, ye gladly tolerate the foolish. ²⁰ For ye tolerate it if some man enslaves you, if some man devours you, if some man seizes you, if some man lifts himself up, if some man strikes you on the face. ²¹ I speak as from shame, that we were so weak. Yet in whatever any man may be bold in foolishness, I say I too am bold. ²² Are they Hebrews? I too. Are they Israelites? I too. Are they a seed of Abraham? I too. ²³ Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often. ²⁴ From the Jews five times I received forty save one. ²⁵ Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I was shipwrecked, I have done a night and a day in the depth, ²⁶ in frequent journeys, in perils of flowing waters, in perils of bandits, in perils from my race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils at sea, in perils among false brothers, ²⁷ in toil and hardship, in frequent sleeplessness, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Besides the external things, crowding upon me daily is the care of all the congregations. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I am not made fiery? ³⁰ If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness.

¹ (Really, to me boasting is not helpful.) For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

¹¹ I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing. ¹² Indeed the signs of the apostle were performed among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works. ¹³ For what is there which ye were inferior to the other congregations? Except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong. ¹⁴ Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ And I most gladly will spend, and will be spent for your souls. Even though more earnestly loving you, the worse I am loved. ¹⁶ But let it be. I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being clever, I caught you with bait. ¹⁷ Any man of whom I have sent to you, did I exploit you through him? ¹⁸ I encouraged Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus exploit you in anything? Did we not walk in the same spirit, not in the same steps? ¹⁹ Again, do ye think that we are making defense to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edification. ²⁰ For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, turmoils, ²¹ lest having come again my God will make me low toward you, and I will bewail many of those who have sinned previously, and who did not repent from the trash and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.

³ For we are the circumcision, men who worship in spirit to God, and who boast in Christ Jesus, and not being confident in flesh.

¹⁷ Therefore he was obligated to be made like his brothers in accordance with all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things toward God, in order to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

¹ For every high priest taken from men is appointed for men in things toward God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.