Romans 16:19 Cross References - NSB

¹⁹ Your obedience has come to our attention abroad. I am glad therefore on your behalf. Yet I would have you wise to that which is good and simple concerning evil.

⁹ ‘Give me the wisdom I need to rule your people with justice. Help me know the difference between good and evil. Otherwise, how would I ever be able to rule this great people of yours?« ¹⁰ Jehovah was pleased that Solomon asked for this. ¹¹ He said to him: »Because you have asked for the wisdom to rule justly, instead of long life for yourself or riches or the death of your enemies, ¹² »I will do what you have asked. I will give you more wisdom and understanding than anyone has ever had. There has never been nor will ever be anyone like you.

² I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

² The Spirit of Jehovah will rest on him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and respect for Jehovah will be his. ³ He will delight in the reverence of Jehovah. He will not judge by what his eyes see, nor make a decision by what his ears hear.

²² »My people are fools. They do not know me. They are stupid people. They do not understand. They are experts in doing wrong, and they do not know how to do good.«

¹⁶ »I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

³ »Go your way for I send you as lambs in the midst of wolves.

⁸ First, I thank my God for all of you through Jesus Christ, for your faith is reported throughout the whole world.

²⁰ Brothers, do not be like children in understanding. When it comes to evil be innocent children but in your thinking be mature adults.

¹⁵ For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus that is among you, and the love you show all the holy ones. ¹⁶ I continually give thanks for you in my prayers. ¹⁷ May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit (mental disposition) of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. ¹⁸ Have the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know the hope of his calling, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the holy ones,

¹⁷ Do not be foolish, but understand (perceive) what the will of Jehovah is.

³ We always pray for you, and thank God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for you. ⁴ We have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love you have for all the holy ones. ⁵ This is because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You heard about this hope from the word of truth, the good news. ⁶ It came to you even as it did. Everywhere in the entire world it bears fruit and it increases in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace (loving-kindness) of God in truth. ⁷ You learned about Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf. ⁸ He also declared your love to us in the Spirit. ⁹ Since the day we heard about you, we have not ceased to pray and make request for you. We pray for you to be filled with the [intimate accurate] knowledge (discernment) (recognition) of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. (Philippians 1:9) (John 17:3)

⁹ I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment.

¹⁵ That way you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. You are seen as lights in the world.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.

² We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers. ³ We continually remember your work of faith, labor of love, and patience, and your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

⁸ For not only did the message about God go out from you throughout Macedonia and Achaia, but the news about your faith in God has gone everywhere. There is nothing that we need to say. ⁹ All those people speak about how you received us when we visited you, and how you turned away from idols to God, to serve the true and living God,

⁶ Timothy came from you to us, and brought us good news about your faith and love. We want you to have good memories of us always, and that you desire to see us just as we also desire to see you. ⁷ Brothers, your faith has comforted us. In all our trouble and suffering we are encouraged. ⁸ Now we live, if you (persevere) stand fast in the Lord. ⁹ What thanks can we render to God for you and for all the joy we have for your sakes before our God? ¹⁰ Night and day we pray exceedingly that we might see you in person, and might perfect (restore) (repair) that which is lacking in your faith.

¹⁵ From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. (Greek: theopneustos: God-breathed) ¹⁷ Thus the man of God may be completely equipped for every good work.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his works are from meekness because of wisdom. ¹⁴ If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not a wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish. ¹⁶ For where jealousy and selfishness are, there is confusion and every evil deed. ¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable (yielding), full of mercy and good fruits, without discord (partiality), without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.