Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Parallel translations
- WEB Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
- BSB Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus,
- NKJV Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus,
- NASB Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another, according to Christ Jesus,
- NLT May God, who gives this patience and encouragement, help you live in complete harmony with each other, as is fitting for followers of Christ Jesus.
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Quick answer
Paul prays that the God of endurance and encouragement would grant the believers to live in harmony with one another, in line with Christ Jesus. Unity is God's gift, patterned after Christ.
Overview
Paul turns from exhortation to prayer, calling God the source of the very endurance and encouragement Scripture supplies. He asks for like-mindedness among the Romans, the strong and weak together, shaped 'according to Christ Jesus.' This is not bland uniformity but a shared mind formed by Christ's own self-giving humility. Genuine unity is ultimately a work of grace that God must grant.
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- Phil 2:4–5Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
- Rom 15:13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
- 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
- Rom 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
- Eph 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
- 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
- 1 Cor 1:10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
- Ps 86:5For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
- 2 Cor 1:3–4Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
- Exod 34:6And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
- Phil 2:2Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
- Phil 1:27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
- Phil 4:2I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
- Acts 4:32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
- Ezek 11:19And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
- 2 Pet 3:15And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
- Phil 3:16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
- 2 Chr 30:12Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
- Rom 15:3For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
- 2 Pet 3:9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
- 2 Cor 7:6Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
- Jer 32:39And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
- 1 Pet 3:20Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
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