Romans 1:1 Cross References - BBE

¹ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

²⁴ But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples. ²⁵ So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you. ²⁶ And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.

⁹ Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them; ¹⁰ Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?

⁸ At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give blessings in his name, to this day.

¹³ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was made separate and holy, he and his sons for ever, for the care of the most holy things and the burning of offerings before the Lord, to do his work and give blessings in his name for ever.

¹ Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:

⁵ Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone. ¹⁶ He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged.

¹⁰ And the angel said, Have no fear; for truly, I give you good news of great joy which will be for all the people: ¹¹ For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.

²⁶ If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

¹⁴ If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another's feet clean. ¹⁵ I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you. ¹⁶ Truly I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; and he who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him.

¹⁵ No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.

²⁰ Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.

¹⁵ But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:

² And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me. ³ Then, after prayer and going without food they put their hands on them, and sent them away. ⁴ So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they went by ship to Cyprus.

⁹ But Saul, whose other name is Paul, being full of the Holy Spirit, looking hard at him, said,

²⁴ But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

⁴⁰ And when he let him do so, Paul, from the steps, made a sign with his hand to the people, and when they were all quiet, he said to them in the Hebrew language,

⁷ And when I went down on the earth, a voice came to my ears saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?

¹³ Came to my side and said, Brother Saul, let your eyes be open. And in that very hour I was able to see him. ¹⁴ And he said, You have been marked out by the God of our fathers to have knowledge of his purpose, and to see the Upright One and to give ear to the words of his mouth. ¹⁵ For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and of what has come to your ears.

²¹ And he said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.

¹ And Agrippa said to Paul, You may put your cause before us. Then Paul, stretching out his hand, made his answer, saying:

¹⁴ And when we had all gone down on the earth, a voice came to me, saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? It is hard for you to go against the impulse which is driving you.

¹⁶ But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me; ¹⁷ And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, ¹⁸ To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

²³ For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,

⁵ Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:

⁹ For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,

¹⁶ For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.

¹³ But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:

¹⁶ To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

²⁹ And I am certain that when I come, I will be full of the blessing of Christ.

¹⁸ For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

²⁵ Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

¹ Am I not free? am I not an Apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are you not my work in the Lord?

¹⁶ For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not. ¹⁷ But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it. ¹⁸ What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.

⁸ And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me. ⁹ For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

⁵ For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.

⁵ For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

¹¹ I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

¹ Paul, an Apostle not from men, and not through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who made him come back from the dead,

¹⁰ Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ. ¹¹ Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's. ¹² For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³ For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it: ¹⁴ And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers. ¹⁵ But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace, ¹⁶ To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood, ¹⁷ And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the purpose of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and those who have faith in Christ Jesus:

¹³ In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,

⁵ Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit; ⁶ Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news, ⁷ Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.

¹¹ And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;

¹ Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons of the church:

¹¹ And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

⁶ In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail. ⁷ But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the purpose of God, and Timothy our brother,

²⁵ Of which I became a servant by the purpose of God which was given to me for you, to give effect to the word of God,

² But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.

¹³ But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true: ¹⁴ And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the order of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope;

¹¹ Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care. ¹² I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

¹⁵ It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief: ¹⁶ But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.

⁷ And of this I became a preacher and an Apostle what I say is true, not false, and a teacher of the Gentiles in the true faith.

¹¹ Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;

¹ Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in agreement with the faith of the saints of God and the full knowledge of what is true in harmony with religion,

⁴ And no man who is not given authority by God, as Aaron was, takes this honour for himself.

²⁶ It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.

¹ Simon Peter, a servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who with us have a part in the same holy faith in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

¹ Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James, to those of God's selection who have been made holy by God the Father and are kept safe for Jesus Christ:

¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him so that his servants might have knowledge of the things which will quickly take place: and he sent and made it clear by his angel to his servant John;

⁶ And he said to me, These words are certain and true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to make clear to his servants the things which are now to come about.

⁹ And he said to me, See you do it not; I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book: give worship to God.