Romans 15:4

American Standard Version (1901)

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

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  • 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
  • 2 Tim 3:16-17 : 16 Every scripture inspired of God [is] also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness. 17 That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.
  • Rom 4:23-24 : 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned unto him; 24 but for our sake also, unto whom it shall be reckoned, who believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
  • 2 Pet 1:20-21 : 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. 21 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 9:9-9 : 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth, 10 or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking.

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  • Rom 15:5
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    5Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:

  • Rom 5:2-5
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    2through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

    3And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;

    4and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:

    5and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.

  • 2 Cor 1:4-7
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    4who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

    5For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.

    6But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:

    7and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.

  • Rom 15:13
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    13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

  • Rom 15:1-3
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    1Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

    2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, unto edifying.

    3For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

  • Rom 8:24-25
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    24For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth?

    25But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.

  • 2 Thess 1:4-5
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    4so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

    5[ which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

  • 1 Cor 9:10
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    10or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking.

  • 2 Cor 4:15
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    15For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.

  • 1 Cor 10:11
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    11Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

  • Heb 10:36
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    36For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

  • 1 Thess 4:18
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    18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

  • 2 Tim 3:15-17
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    15And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

    16Every scripture inspired of God [is] also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness.

    17That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.

  • 2 Pet 3:15
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    15And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you;

  • Rom 14:19
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    19So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

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    11And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:

    12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

  • 2 Thess 2:16-17
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    16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

    17comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

  • 1 Thess 3:7
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    7for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:

  • Rom 12:12
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    12rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;

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    3Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

    4And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

  • 1 Thess 5:14
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    14And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

  • 2 Thess 3:5
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    5And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

  • Rom 1:12
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    12that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

  • 2 Cor 4:17-18
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    17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

    18while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

  • 2 Cor 7:13
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    13Therefore we have been comforted: And in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.

  • Gal 5:5
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    5For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

  • 1 Cor 15:19
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    19If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

  • 2 Cor 3:4
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    4And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:

  • 1 Pet 1:13
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    13Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

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    6Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,

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    31For ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted;

  • 2 Cor 2:9
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    9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

  • 1 Cor 15:3
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    3For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;