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.
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,
- KJV Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward 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,
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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 2:4–5each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
- Rom 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
- Rom 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
- Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
- 1 Cor 1:10Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
- Ps 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
- 2 Cor 1:3–4Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
- Exod 34:6Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
- Phil 2:2make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
- Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
- Phil 4:2I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.
- Acts 4:32The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
- Ezek 11:19I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
- 2 Pet 3:15Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
- Phil 3:16Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.
- 2 Chr 30:12Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.
- Rom 15:3For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
- 2 Pet 3:9The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
- 2 Cor 7:6Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
- Jer 32:39and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
- 1 Pet 3:20who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
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