First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole 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.
- BSB First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the 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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- Rom 16:19For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
- 1 Cor 1:4I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
- 1 Th 1:8–9For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
- Rom 6:17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
- Eph 1:15Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
- Col 1:3We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
- Phil 1:3I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
- 1 Pet 4:11If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
- Phil 1:11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
- 1 Pet 2:5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
- Heb 13:15By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
- Eph 5:20Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- Matt 24:14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
- Eph 3:21Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
- Acts 11:28And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
- Luke 2:1And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
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