Romans 1:5 Cross References - Moffatt

⁵ through whom I have received the favour of my commission to promote obedience to the faith for his sake among all the Gentiles,

¹⁶ For we have all been receiving grace after grace from his fulness;

²⁵ to fill the place in this apostolic ministry which Judas left in order to go to his own place."

⁷ And the word of God spread; the number of the disciples in Jerusalem greatly increased, and a host of priests became obedient to the faith.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

¹⁴ Symeon has explained how it was God's original concern to secure a People from among the Gentiles to bear his Name.

²⁹ Or is God only the God of Jews? Is he not the God of the Gentiles as well? Surely he is.

³ In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

¹⁵ Still, by way of refreshing your memory, I have written you with a certain freedom, in virtue of my divine commission ¹⁶ as a priest of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the service of God's gospel. My aim is to make the Gentiles an acceptable offering, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

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 —

²⁶ has now been disclosed and made known on the basis of the prophetic scriptures (by command of the eternal God) to all the Gentiles for their obedience to the faith —

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.

¹⁰ But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them — though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

⁵ It is not that I am personally qualified to form any judgment by myself; my qualifications come from God, ⁶ and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant — a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

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, ⁶ I am prepared to court-martial anyone who remains insubordinate, once your submission is complete.

¹⁵ But the God who had set me apart from my very birth called me by his grace, ¹⁶ and when he chose to reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him to the Gentiles, instead of consulting with any human being,

⁸ (for He who equipped Peter to be an apostle of the circumcised equipped me as well for the uncircumcised), ⁹ and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

⁶ redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved,

¹² to make us redound to the praise of his glory by being the first to put our hope in Christ.

² for surely you have heard how the grace of God which was vouchsafed me in your interests has ordered it, ³ how the divine secret was disclosed to me by a revelation (if you read what I have already written briefly about this, ⁴ you can understand my insight into that secret of Christ ⁵ which was not disclosed to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his sacred apostles and prophets by the Spirit), ⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise. ⁷ Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power; ⁸ less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ ⁹ and enlighten all men upon the new order of that divine secret which God the Creator of all concealed from eternity —

¹¹ as laid down by that glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted. ¹² I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry,

⁹ and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

⁹ But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light — ¹⁰ you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.