Romans 1:13

Paul has often planned to visit Rome but was repeatedly hindered, desiring fruit among them as among other Gentiles. His missionary intentions are genuine though providentially delayed.

Cross-references · 27

• Acts 19:21After these things had happened, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must see Rome as well.”
• Phil 4:17Not that I am seeking a gift, but I am looking for the fruit that may be credited to your account.
• 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
• 1 Th 2:18For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.
• 1 Th 4:13Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.
• 2 Cor 1:8We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
• Acts 16:6–7After the Holy Spirit had prevented them from speaking the word in the province of Asia, they traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia.
• 1 Cor 12:1Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
• Rom 15:22–28That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
• 1 Cor 10:1I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
• John 4:36Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
• Col 1:6that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.
• Rom 11:25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
• John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
• 2 Th 2:7For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now restrains it will continue until he is taken out of the way.
• 1 Cor 9:2Even if I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
• 1 Th 2:13–14And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.
• John 12:24Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
• Acts 15:12The whole assembly fell silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
• Isa 27:6In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
• 2 Cor 2:14But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
• 2 Cor 10:13–16We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.
• Acts 21:19Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
• Acts 14:27When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
• 1 Th 1:8–10For not only did the message of the Lord ring out from you to Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone out to every place, so that we have no need to say anything more.
• 2 Cor 1:15–16Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.
• Rom 15:18–20I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

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