Romans 15:18

Paul will speak only of what Christ has accomplished through him to bring the Gentiles to obedience, by word and deed. He attributes all genuine fruit to Christ's working.

Cross-references · 26

• Acts 15:12The whole assembly fell silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
• Rom 1:5Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.
• Acts 21:19Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
• Prov 25:14Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.
• Gal 2:8For the One who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.
• 2 Th 2:17encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.
• Rom 16:26but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith—
• 2 Cor 12:6Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,
• Acts 14:27When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
• 1 Jn 3:18Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
• 1 Cor 3:6–9I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
• Heb 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
• Col 3:17And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
• Heb 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
• Jas 1:22Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
• Mark 16:20And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.
• Jude 1:9But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
• 2 Cor 3:1–3Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
• Acts 15:4On their arrival in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and apostles and elders, to whom they reported all that God had done through them.
• Matt 28:18–20Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
• Acts 26:20First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.
• 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.
• 2 Cor 11:31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.
• 2 Cor 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
• 2 Cor 10:4–5The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
• 2 Cor 10:13–18We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.

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