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Romans · read by Chuck Smith
231 verses, in order. Only the verses Chuck read aloud are shown.
Romans 1
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the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Matthew 20-22
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Through 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.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember youRead from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God's will I may succeed in coming to you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.Read from KJV · The God Who Sees All and Knows All
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For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.Read from KJV · Cross Over the Line
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Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,Read from KJV · Prophecy Update 2006
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slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Leviticus 16-20
Romans 2
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And we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending themRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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on the day when God will judge men's secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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As it is written: "God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
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No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man's praise does not come from men, but from God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 1-2
Romans 3
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All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."Read from KJV · Pure by Faith
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"Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The venom of vipers is on their lips."Read from KJV · Pure by Faith
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Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.Read from KJV · Pure by Faith
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And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,Read from KJV · Pure by Faith
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for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Exodus 33-34
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and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Meddling
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God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.Read from KJV · (People God Uses) 02 the Need for Faith
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He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.Read from KJV · (People God Uses) 02 the Need for Faith
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Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.Read from NKJV · (People God Uses) 02 the Need for Faith
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For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.Read from KJV · Pure by Faith
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Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,Read from KJV · Pure by Faith
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since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.Read from KJV · Pure by Faith
Romans 4
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If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 3-4
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Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 3-4
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However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.Read from KJV · Faith That Works
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"Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 3-4
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For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 3-4
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because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 3-4
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Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,Read from KJV · Pastor Chuck Smith's Last Sermon - Be Strong in the Faith
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but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 3-4
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He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 3-4
Romans 5
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perseverance, character; and character, hope.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Corinthians 11-13
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And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
Romans 6
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Or aren't you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 5-6
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Read from KJV · The Choice
Romans 7
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So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 7
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For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 7
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But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 7
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For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 7
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For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 7
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What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?Read from ESV · A Review of Israel's Rebellions
Romans 8
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Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Luke 3-4
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The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.Read from KJV · 1 Peter 1 Expositional
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I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.Read from KJV · 1 Peter 1 Expositional
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that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?Read from NASB1995 · Four Little Wise Creatures
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As it is written: "For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
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No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.Read from NKJV · Four Little Wise Creatures
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neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 8
Romans 9
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I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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For this is what the promise stated: "At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son."Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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So it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth."Read from KJV · (People God Uses) 04 Knowing the Word of God
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Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?Read from KJV · Lessons From the Potters House
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What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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and, "It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not My people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
Romans 10
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Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.Read from KJV · Finding God
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For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.Read from KJV · Finding God
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Because they were ignorant of God's righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.Read from KJV · Finding God
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For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: "The man who does these things will live by them."Read from KJV · Finding God
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But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down)Read from KJV · Finding God
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or, 'Who will descend into the Abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:Read from KJV · Finding God
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that if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.Read from ESV · False Conclusions
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For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.Read from KJV · Finding God
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It is just as the Scripture says: "Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame."Read from KJV · Finding God
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For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,Read from KJV · Finding God
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for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."Read from KJV · Deliverance Shall Come
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And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"Read from KJV · Deliverance Shall Come
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Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.Read from KJV · Deliverance Shall Come
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I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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And Isaiah boldly says: "I was found by those who did not seek Me; I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 9-10
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But as for Israel he says: "All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people."Read from KJV · Deliverance Shall Come
Romans 11
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"Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well" ?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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Just as you who formerly disobeyed God have now received mercy through their disobedience,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!Read from NKJV · Our Awesome God - Part 1
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"Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?"Read from ESV · Our Awesome God - Part 2
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"Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.Read from NKJV · Our Awesome God - Part 1
Romans 12
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Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.Read from NKJV · Overcoming Temptation
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so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach;Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but enjoy the company of the lowly. Do not be conceited.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written: "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
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On the contrary, "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head."Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 11-12
Romans 13
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Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
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For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
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Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
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Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
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The commandments "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: "Love your neighbor as yourself."Read from KJV · God's Resolutions
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Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
Romans 14
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Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
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One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
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For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.Read from NKJV · Freedom in Faith
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If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
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For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
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It is written: "As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
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So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
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I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
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Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
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For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 13-14
Romans 15
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Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God's truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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Again, it says: "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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And once more, Isaiah says: "The Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will put their hope."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given meRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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Rather, as it is written: "Those who were not told about Him will see, and those who have not heard will understand."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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So after I have completed this service and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set off to Spain by way of you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and together with you be refreshed.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
Romans 16
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Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send you greetings.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.Read from KJV · Divisions
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Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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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 pastRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16
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to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Romans 15-16