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.
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.
- KJV 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.
- BSB I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct 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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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.
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- 2 Pet 1:12Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
- 1 Jn 2:21I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
- 1 Cor 8:1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
- 1 Cor 8:7However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
- 1 Cor 1:5that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;
- 1 Th 5:11Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
- 1 Cor 8:10For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
- Eph 5:9for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
- Phlm 1:21Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
- 1 Th 5:14We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
- Titus 2:3–4and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
- 2 Tim 1:5having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
- Heb 10:24–25Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
- Col 1:8–10who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
- Heb 5:12For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
- Phil 1:7It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
- Phil 1:11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- 2 Pet 1:5–8Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
- Heb 6:9But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
- 1 Cor 12:8For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
- 1 Cor 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
- Jude 1:20–23But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
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