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.
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.
- KJV 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.
- 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.
- 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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- Col 1:2to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Jude 1:1–2Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
- Eph 1:2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Th 1:1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Cor 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
- 2 Jn 1:3Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
- 2 Th 3:16Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
- 2 Th 2:16–17Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort 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 to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
- 1 Cor 1:2–9to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
- Phlm 1:25The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
- Rev 22:21The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.
- Col 3:12Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
- Rom 5:1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
- Eph 6:23Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Rom 9:25As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
- Phil 4:23The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
- 2 Cor 1:1–2Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
- 1 Tim 1:2to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
- 2 Tim 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
- Acts 15:23They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
- 2 Cor 12:8–10Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
- Gal 1:3–4Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Cor 16:23The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- Titus 1:4to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
- 1 Th 4:7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
- Gal 6:18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
- 2 Tim 1:2to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Phil 4:20Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
- 1 Pet 1:1–2Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
- 1 Pet 1:15but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
- 1 Jn 3:1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
- 1 Th 5:28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
- 1 Th 3:11–13Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you;
- Col 3:15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
- Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
- Rom 1:6among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;
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