To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Parallel translations
- WEB to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- BSB To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- NKJV To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- NASB to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- NLT I am writing to all of you in Rome who are loved by God and are called to be his own holy people. May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
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Quick answer
Paul greets all the believers in Rome as those loved by God and called to be saints, wishing them grace and peace. The greeting names the source of every blessing: God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Overview
Paul addresses the whole Roman church as 'beloved of God' and 'called to be saints' (set apart as holy). His greeting of 'grace and peace' is more than a formality; grace is God's unmerited favor and peace its result. By joining the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ as the source, Paul implicitly affirms Christ's deity alongside the Father.
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Cross-references · 40
- Col 1:2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Jude 1:1–2Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
- Eph 1:2Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Th 1:1Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Cor 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
- 2 Jn 1:3Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
- 2 Th 3:16Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
- 2 Th 2:16–17Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
- Phlm 1:3Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Th 3:18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
- 2 Pet 1:2–3Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
- 1 Cor 1:2–9Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
- Phlm 1:25The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
- Rev 22:21The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
- Col 3:12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
- Rom 5:1Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
- Eph 6:23Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Rom 9:25As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
- Phil 4:23The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
- 2 Cor 1:1–2Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
- 1 Tim 1:2Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
- 1 Th 1:3Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
- 2 Tim 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
- Acts 15:23And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
- 2 Cor 12:8–10For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
- Gal 1:3–4Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Cor 16:23The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- Titus 1:4To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
- 1 Th 4:7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
- Gal 6:18Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
- 2 Tim 1:2To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Phil 4:20Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- 1 Pet 1:1–2Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
- 1 Pet 1:15But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
- 1 Jn 3:1Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
- 1 Th 5:28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
- 1 Th 3:11–13Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
- Col 3:15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
- Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
- Rom 1:6Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
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