Romans 1:16 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁶ For I am proud of the gospel; it is God's saving power for everyone who has faith, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

³⁸ Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this disloyal and sinful generation, the Son of man will be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

¹⁰ but the angel said to them, "Have no fear. This is good news I am bringing you, news of a great joy that is meant for all the People. ¹¹ To-day you have a saviour born in the town of David, the Lord messiah.

²⁶ For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

³⁵ The Jews said to themselves, "Where is he going, that we will not find him? Is he off to the Dispersion among the Greeks, to teach the Greeks?

²⁶ It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

⁹ anguish and calamity for every human soul that perpetrates evil, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well,

¹¹ He only got circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which belonged to his faith as an uncircumcised man. The object of this was to make him the father of all who believe as uncircumcised persons and thus have righteousness counted to them,

¹⁷ (You see, faith must come from what is heard, and what is heard comes from word of Christ.)

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 —

²⁹ When I do come to you, I know I will bring a full blessing from Christ.

¹⁸ Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves. ¹⁹ It is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the sages, I will confound the insight of the wise. ²⁰ Sage, scribe, critic of this world, where are they all? Has not God stultified the wisdom of the world? ²¹ For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message. ²² Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom, ²³ but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles, ²⁴ but for those who are called, whether Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

² I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified.

⁴ what I said, what I preached, did not rest on the plausible arguments of 'wisdom' but on the proof supplied by the Spirit and its power,

¹² If others share this right over you, why not we all the more? We did not avail ourselves of it, you say? No, we do not mind any privations if we can only avoid putting any obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

¹⁸ And my reward? This, that I can preach the gospel free of charge, that I can refrain from insisting on all my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

²⁴ Whereas, if everybody prophesies, and some unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is exposed by all, brought to book by all; ²⁵ the secrets of his heart are brought to light, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring, 'God is really among you.'

² the gospel by which you are saved — provided you adhere to my statement of it — unless indeed your faith was all haphazard.

¹² Well, when I reached Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, though I had a wide opportunity in the Lord,

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. ¹⁵ I live for God as the fragrance of Christ breathed alike on those who are being saved and on those who are perishing, ¹⁶ to the one a deadly fragrance that makes for death, to the other a vital fragrance that makes for life. And who is qualified for this career?

⁴ there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

¹³ This service shows what you are, it makes men praise God for the way you have come under the gospel of Christ which you confess, and for the generosity of your contributions to themselves and to all;

⁴ the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but divinely strong to demolish fortresses — ⁵ I demolish theories and any rampart thrown up to resist the knowledge of God, I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ,

⁷ It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ.

⁵ due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel 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.

⁵ for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good), ⁶ and you started to copy us and the Lord, welcoming the word, though it brought you heavy trouble, with a joy inspired by the holy Spirit.

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,

¹¹ as laid down by that glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

⁸ So do not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, and do not be ashamed of a prisoner of the Lord like me; join me in bearing suffering for the gospel by the power of the God

¹² and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.

¹⁶ May the Lord show favour to the household of Onesiphorus, for many a time he braced me up; he was not ashamed of my imprisonment —

¹² For the Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge, penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow — scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart.

¹⁶ but if a man suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed, he must rather glorify God for that.