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 16:25—
• 2 Pet 1:12Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
• Rom 15:29I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.
• 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.
• 2 Pet 3:17–18You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
• 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• 1 Pet 5:12Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.
• Acts 8:15–19who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;
• 2 Th 2:17comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
• Acts 16:5So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.
• 1 Th 3:13to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
• Acts 19:6When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.
• 2 Chr 20:20They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
• Acts 19:21Now after these things had ended, Paul determined 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 2:26since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.
• Gal 3:2–5I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
• 1 Th 3:2and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;
• 2 Sam 13:39King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
• Rom 15:23but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,
• Rom 15:32that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.
• Phil 1:8For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
• Phil 4:1Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
• 2 Cor 9:14while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
• Eph 4:8–12Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”
• 2 Sam 23:15David longed, and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
• Heb 13:9Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
• 1 Cor 12:1–11Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.
• 2 Cor 1:21Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;
• 2 Cor 11:4For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
• Gen 31:30Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

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