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Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past,
Romans 16:25 · New American Standard Bible
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  • KJV Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
  • BSB Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
  • ESV Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
  • NKJV Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began
  • NLT Now all glory to God, who is able to make you strong, just as my Good News says. This message about Jesus Christ has revealed his plan for you Gentiles, a plan kept secret from the beginning of time.

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Cross-references · 36

  • 1 Cor 2:7But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
  • Col 1:26–27the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
  • Rom 2:16in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
  • Eph 1:9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
  • 2 Th 2:14to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Eph 3:20–21Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
  • Eph 3:3–5how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,
  • Eph 3:9and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;
  • 2 Cor 4:3Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
  • Amos 3:7Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
  • 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
  • Dan 2:22he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
  • 2 Tim 2:8Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,
  • Matt 13:35that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
  • Acts 20:32Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
  • Acts 9:20Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.
  • Eph 6:19on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
  • 1 Cor 4:1So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
  • 2 Cor 4:5For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;
  • 1 Cor 2:1–2When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
  • 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.
  • Gal 2:2I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
  • Luke 10:23–24Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,
  • Eph 3:11according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;
  • 2 Tim 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
  • 1 Cor 1:23but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
  • Heb 7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
  • Matt 13:17For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
  • 1 Pet 1:10–12Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
  • Titus 1:2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
  • 1 Pet 1:20who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
  • Jude 1:24–25Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
  • 1 Th 3:13to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
  • 2 Th 2:16–17Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
  • Rom 14:4Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
  • Ps 78:2I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

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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.

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