Romans 1:11

Paul longs to see the Romans to share some spiritual gift that will strengthen them. His desire is to build up the church, not merely to visit.

Cross-references · 30

• Rom 16:25Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
• 2 Pet 1:12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
• Rom 15:29And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
• 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
• 2 Pet 3:17–18Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
• 1 Pet 5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• 1 Pet 5:12By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
• Acts 8:15–19Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
• 2 Th 2:17Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
• Acts 16:5And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
• 1 Th 3:13To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
• Acts 19:6And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
• 2 Chr 20:20And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
• Acts 19:21After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
• Phil 2:26For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
• Gal 3:2–5This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
• 1 Th 3:2And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
• 2 Sam 13:39And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
• Rom 15:23But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;
• Rom 15:32That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
• Phil 1:8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
• Phil 4:1Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
• 2 Cor 9:14And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
• Eph 4:8–12Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
• 2 Sam 23:15And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
• Heb 13:9Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
• 1 Cor 12:1–11Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
• 2 Cor 1:21Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;
• 2 Cor 11:4For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
• Gen 31:30And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

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