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 19:21Now 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 4:17Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
• 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• 1 Th 2:18because we wanted to come to you — indeed, I, Paul, once and again — but Satan hindered us.
• 1 Th 4:13But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
• 2 Cor 1:8For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
• Acts 16:6–7When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
• 1 Cor 12:1Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.
• Rom 15:22–28Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,
• 1 Cor 10:1Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
• John 4:36He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
• Col 1:6which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
• Rom 11:25For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
• John 15:16You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
• 2 Th 2:7For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
• 1 Cor 9:2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
• 1 Th 2:13–14For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
• John 12:24Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
• Acts 15:12All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
• Isa 27:6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
• 2 Cor 2:14Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
• 2 Cor 10:13–16But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
• Acts 21:19When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
• Acts 14:27When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
• 1 Th 1:8–10For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything.
• 2 Cor 1:15–16In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;
• Rom 15:18–20For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

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