Romans 1:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome.

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  • 1 Kgs 8:18 : 18 But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;
  • Isa 6:8 : 8 And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.
  • Matt 9:38 : 38 Make prayer, then, to the Lord of the grain-fields, that he may send out workers to get in his grain.
  • Mark 14:8 : 8 She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
  • Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
  • Rom 12:18 : 18 As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 Making it my purpose not to take the good news where Christ was named, so that my work might not be resting on that of others;
  • 1 Cor 9:17 : 17 But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.
  • 2 Cor 8:12 : 12 For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.
  • 2 Cor 10:15-16 : 15 Not taking credit to ourselves for what is not our business, that is, for the work of others; but having hope that, with the growth of your faith, we may get the credit for an increase which is the effect of our work, 16 So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.

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  • Rom 1:16
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    16For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.

  • Rom 1:13-14
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    78%

    13You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

    14I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.

  • Rom 15:15-20
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    15But I have, in some measure, less fear in writing to you to put these things before you again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,

    16To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

    17So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.

    18And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

    19By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;

    20Making it my purpose not to take the good news where Christ was named, so that my work might not be resting on that of others;

  • Phil 1:16-18
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    16These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:

    17But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.

    18What then? only that in every way, falsely or truly, the preaching of Christ goes on; and in this I am glad, and will be glad.

  • Rom 1:1
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    1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

  • Rom 1:7-11
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    74%

    7To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

    8First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.

    9For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,

    10And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.

    11For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

  • 1 Cor 9:16-18
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    73%

    16For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not.

    17But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.

    18What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.

  • 2 Tim 1:11
    73%

    11Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;

  • Rom 15:31
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    31So that I may be kept safe from those in Judaea who have not put themselves under the rule of God, and that the help which I am taking for Jerusalem may be pleasing to the saints;

  • Phil 1:12-14
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    12Now it is my purpose to make clear to you, brothers, that the cause of the good news has been helped by my experiences;

    13So that it became clear through all the Praetorium, and to all the rest, that I was a prisoner on account of Christ;

    14And most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all the stronger to give the word of God without fear.

  • Rom 15:28-29
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    28So when I have done this, and have given them this fruit of love, I will go on by you into Spain.

    29And I am certain that when I come, I will be full of the blessing of Christ.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

  • Phil 1:30
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    30Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.

  • 2 Cor 1:15-16
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    15And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace;

    16And by way of Corinth to go into Macedonia, and from there to come back again to you, so that you might send me on my way to Judaea.

  • Phil 1:20
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    20In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.

  • Acts 19:21
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    21Now after these things were ended, Paul came to a decision that when he had gone through Macedonia and Achaia he would go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I have a desire to see Rome.

  • Eph 6:19-20
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    19And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news,

    20For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

  • Phil 1:7-8
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    7So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace.

    8For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.

  • Col 1:25
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    25Of which I became a servant by the purpose of God which was given to me for you, to give effect to the word of God,

  • Gal 1:11
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    11Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.

  • 1 Cor 15:1
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    1Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based,

  • Gal 1:16
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    16To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,

  • Rom 15:25
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    25But now I go to Jerusalem, taking help for the saints.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.

  • Phil 1:27
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    27Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;

  • Acts 21:13
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    13Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13Though my desire was to keep him with me, to be my servant in the chains of the good news, in your place: