First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.
Parallel translations
- WEB First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
- KJV First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
- NKJV First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
- NASB First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the world.
- NLT Let me say first that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith in him is being talked about all over the world.
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Quick answer
Paul thanks God through Jesus Christ for the Romans, whose faith is reported worldwide. Genuine thanksgiving and a public, living faith mark the healthy church.
Overview
Paul begins with thanksgiving, a frequent pattern in his letters. He thanks God 'through Jesus Christ,' acknowledging Christ as the mediator of all prayer and praise. The Romans' faith being 'proclaimed throughout the whole world' shows that true faith becomes known and bears witness, encouraging the wider body of believers.
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Cross-references · 16
- Rom 16:19Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.
- 1 Cor 1:4I always thank my God for you because of the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus.
- 1 Th 1:8–9For 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.
- Rom 6:17But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
- Eph 1:15For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
- Col 1:3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
- Phil 1:3I thank my God every time I remember you.
- 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
- Phil 1:11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- 1 Pet 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- Heb 13:15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
- Eph 5:20always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Matt 24:14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
- Eph 3:21to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
- Acts 11:28One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
- Luke 2:1Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.
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