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And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
Romans 15:14 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
  • BSB I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
  • NKJV Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
  • NASB And concerning you, my brothers and sisters, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another.
  • NLT I am fully convinced, my dear brothers and sisters, that you are full of goodness. You know these things so well you can teach each other all about them.

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Quick answer

Paul expresses confidence that the Roman believers are full of goodness and knowledge, able to instruct one another. He affirms the church even as he begins his personal remarks.

Overview

Turning to the letter's closing personal section, Paul commends the Romans warmly. He is persuaded they possess genuine goodness, mature knowledge, and the capacity to admonish one another. This gracious affirmation shows pastoral tact: he has written boldly, yet he honors their spiritual maturity. It models how correction and encouragement belong together in healthy Christian relationships.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • 2 Pet 1:12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
  • Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
  • 1 Jn 2:21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
  • 1 Cor 8:1Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
  • 1 Cor 8:7Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
  • 1 Cor 1:5That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
  • 1 Th 5:11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
  • 1 Cor 8:10For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
  • Eph 5:9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
  • Phlm 1:21Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
  • 1 Th 5:14Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
  • Titus 2:3–4The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
  • 2 Tim 1:5When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
  • Heb 10:24–25And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
  • Col 1:8–10Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
  • Heb 5:12For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
  • Phil 1:7Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
  • Phil 1:11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
  • 2 Pet 1:5–8And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
  • Heb 6:9But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
  • 1 Cor 12:8For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
  • 1 Cor 13:2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
  • Jude 1:20–23But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

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Christ at the center

Paul unfolds the gospel in full: Christ our righteousness received by faith, the second Adam in whom many are made righteous, in whose death and resurrection we are buried and raised.

How Romans 15:14 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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