Romans 15:17 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁷ Therefore I have matter of boasting in Christ Jesus with respect to the things pertaining to God.

² for if Abraham was justified because of works he hath matter of boasting. But he hath not before God.

¹⁴ But thanks be to God who causeth us always to triumph in the Christ, and who manifesteth by us, in every place, the odour of the knowledge of him. ¹⁵ Because we are for God a strong odour of the Christ among them who are saved, and among them who perish ¹⁶ [to these indeed an odour of death for death, but to those an odour of life for life] who therefore is sufficient for this?

⁴ Such is the confidence which we have through Christ in regard to God; ⁵ not that we are of ourselves sufficient to reckon any thing as proceeding from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God, ⁶ who hath qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant; not of letter but of spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

⁴ I use great freedom of speech to you. I have great boasting with regard to you. I am filled with comfort. I superabound with joy in all our affliction.

¹⁶ Again, I say, let not, a certain person think me a fool; but if he should, bear ye however with me as a fool, that I also may boast a little. ¹⁷ What I am going to say, I do not say according to the Lord, but as with folly on the subject of this boasting. ¹⁸ Since many boast after the flesh, let me also boast. ¹⁹ For wise as you are, you easily bear with fools; ²⁰ for you bear, if one enslaveth you; if one devoureth; if one receiveth; if one exalteth himself; if one openly insulteth you. ²¹ In regard to reproach; as, "That we are weak"; I say that on whatever any one can presume [I speak foolishly] I can do the same. ²² Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they of the seed of Abraham? So am I. ²³ Are they ministers of Christ? [I speak with an excess of folly] I am more so; more abundant in labours; far surpassing in stripes; more frequent in imprisonments, often in deaths. ²⁴ Of the Jews I five times received forty stripes save one. ²⁵ Thrice I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Thrice I have been shipwrecked. In the deep I spent a whole night and day. ²⁶ On journeys I have been frequently in dangers from rivers; in dangers from robbers; in dangers from my country men; in dangers from foreign nations; in dangers in cities; in dangers in a wilderness; in dangers at sea; in dangers among false brethren: ²⁷ In toil and fatigue, in watchings many a time, with hunger and thirst; in fastings many a time, with cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Beside these things from without, I have this disturbance daily crowding upon me; the anxious care of all the congregations. ²⁹ Who is weak and I not weak? Who is offended and I not inflamed? ³⁰ If I must boast, let me boast of things regarding my weakness.

¹ To me indeed it is of no advantage to boast; for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

¹¹ I am become a foolish boaster! you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you. For I am not a whit behind the chiefest apostles, although I am nothing. ¹² The signs indeed of the apostle have been wrought among you with all patience, with signs and wonders and miracles. ¹³ For what instance is there of your being inferior to other congregations, unless it be this; that I have not been burthensome to you? Forgive me this injury. ¹⁴ Behold I am in preparation to come to you a third time, and I will not be burthensome to you. For I seek not your possessions, but yourselves. For children are not bound to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ And as for me, I will, with the greatest pleasure, spend and be spent for your sakes, though the more I love you, the less I be beloved. ¹⁶ Now be it so that I did not burthen you, but being crafty I took you in by artifice. ¹⁷ Did I take an undue advantage of you by any of them whom I sent to you? ¹⁸ I entreated Titus to go, and with him I sent the brother. Did Titus take any undue advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not in the same steps? ¹⁹ Do you think we are again making apologies to you? In the presence of God we speak as in Christ. And all these things, beloved, are for your edification. ²⁰ For I am afraid lest when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that you will not find me such as you wish; lest should there be debates, envyings, animosities, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings and tumults, ²¹ my God humble me when I come to you again, and I cause many of those who have sinned, and have not begun a reformation, to grieve for the impurity, and fornication, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

³ for we are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in flesh.

¹⁷ whence it behoved him to be made like his brethren in all things; that he might be a merciful and faithful chief priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

¹ For every chief priest, taken from among men, is constituted for men over things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,