Romans 1:1 Cross References - MNT

¹ From Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for a gospel of God,

¹⁵ And he said to them. "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. ¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who disbelieves shall be condemned.

¹⁰ "Have no fear, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be for all the people. ¹¹ "For unto you born this day in there is born in David's town a Saviour, who is the Anointed Lord.

²⁶ If any one is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall my servant be also. If any man is ready to serve me, him will my Father honor.

¹⁴ If then I have washed your feet, I the 'Master' and the 'Teacher', you also ought to wash one another's feet, ¹⁵ for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you. ¹⁶ In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him.

¹⁵ "I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

²⁰ "Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

¹⁵ "Go," answered the Lord, "this man is chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the nations and their kings, and before the Children of Israel also;

² And as they were worshiping the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." ³ So after fasting and praying, they laid their hands on them, and let them go. ⁴ So they, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

⁹ So Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, gazed steadily at him, and said:

²⁴ But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, if only I may run my race, and accomplish the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

⁴⁰ So when he had given leave, Paul stood on the stairs, beckoning with his hands to the people. There came a great hush, and he spoke to them as follows, in Hebrew.

⁷ "I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, "'Saul! Saul! why are you persecuting me?'

¹³ "came to me, and standing by me, said to me, "'Brother Saul, receive your sight' "In that very hour I regained my sight and looked up at him. ¹⁴ "Then he said: "'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know his will; and to see the righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. ¹⁵ "'For before the face of all men you will be a witness for him of what you have seen and heard.

²¹ "'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"

¹ Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You are permitted to speak for yourself." So Paul stretched forth his hand and began to make his defense.

¹⁴ "We all fell to the ground; and I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew. "'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goad.'

¹⁶ "'But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you my minister and my witness both of what you have already seen and of those things in which I will appear to you. ¹⁷ "'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes ¹⁸ "'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

²³ "for last night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me and said:

⁵ It is through him, even Jesus Christ our Lord, that I received grace and apostleship to promote obedience to the faith among all the Gentiles, for his name's sake;

⁹ God is my witness, to whom I render holy service in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I am ever making mention of you in my prayers,

¹⁶ FOR I AM PROUD OF THE GOSPEL. IT IS GOD'S SAVING POWER FOR EVERY ONE WHO BELIEVES. FOR THE JEW FIRST, AND ALSO FOR THE GENTILE.

¹³ For to you who are Gentiles I say that since I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,

¹⁶ I act as priest of the gospel of God; so that the Gentiles, when offered before him, may be an acceptable sacrifice, because consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

²⁹ And I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

¹⁸ Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

²⁵ Now I commend you to Him who is able to keep you stedfast, according to my gospel, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, whereby is unveiled the secret truth which was kept secret through immemorial ages,

¹ Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes, his 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 Proclaiming the gospel gives me no ground of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; woe is me if I preach not the gospel. ¹⁷ For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship. ¹⁸ What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

⁸ and last of all, as by one born out of due time, he was seen by me also. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

¹ To the Church of God which is in Corinth, and to all the saints throughout Greece. from Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ, and from brother Timothy.

⁵ It is not myself that I proclaim, but Christ Jesus as Master, and myself that I proclaim, and myself your slave for Jesus' sake.

⁵ For I reckon that I am in no respect behind your superapostolic apostles.

¹¹ I am become a fool—you have forced me to; for you yourselves ought to have been my vindicators. In no respect am I inferior to these superapostolic apostles, even though I am nothing.

¹ Paul, an apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father who raised him from the dead;

¹⁰ Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ. ¹¹ For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel I preach is not man-made; ¹² for neither did I myself receive it from man, nor by man was I taught it, but by a revelation an apocalypse of Jesus Christ. ¹³ For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out; ¹⁴ and how in my zeal for Judaism I outstripped many of my own age and nation, in my special zeal for the traditions of my forefathers. ¹⁵ But when God who had set me apart from my very birth, ¹⁶ and had called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach his gospel among the Gentiles, without consulting a human being, ¹⁷ or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus,

¹³ And in him, because you listened to the proclamation of the truth, the evangel of your salvation, and trusted it, you Gentiles too were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

⁵ which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets, ⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel. ⁷ It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.

¹¹ It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

¹ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, and to the elders and deacons.

¹¹ and every tongue confess that "Jesus Christ is Lord," to the glory of God the Father.

⁶ as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless. ⁷ But what was once gain to me, that I have counted loss for Christ.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

²⁵ It is of this I was made a minister, according to the stewardship entrusted to me by God for you, fully to declare God's message;

² for you remember that although I had already borne ill-treatment and insult at Philippi, I took courage in my God to tell you the gospel of God, in the face of much opposition.

¹³ But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth. ¹⁴ For this he called you through my gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul, and apostle of Jesus Christ by command of God our Saviour and Jesus Christ our Hope,

¹¹ as laid down in the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been entrusted to me. ¹² And I am thankful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has thus enabled me, that he accounted me faithful, and appointed me to his service,

¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners"! And there is no greater sinner than I! ¹⁶ Yet for this very cause I obtained mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might display all his boundless patience as an illustration for those who should later believe in him, and so gain life eternal.

⁷ It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

¹¹ Of the gospel I was appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher; and that is the reason I am now undergoing these sufferings.

¹ To Titus, my true son in a common faith, from Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and to the knowledge of the truth which goes with piety;

⁴ Again no one takes this honorable office for himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.

²⁶ For we needed just such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

¹ James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greeting to the twelve tribes that are scattered abroad.

¹ Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

¹ Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and a brother of James. To those who are in God, the Father beloved, kept for Jesus Christ, and called.

¹ The unveiling apocalypse of Jesus Christ which God gave him to show to his slaves the things which must soon come to pass; and he sent and made it known by his angel to his slave John.

⁶ Then he said to me. "These words may be trusted, and are true. the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his slaves what must soon take place.

⁹ But he said to me. "See thou do it not. I am only a fellow slave with you and your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this Book. "WORSHIP GOD!"