Romans 1:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 16:19 : 19 Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.
  • 1 Cor 1:4 : 4 Thanksgiving I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus.
  • Phil 1:3 : 3 Prayer for the Church I thank my God every time I remember you.
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,
  • Matt 24:14 : 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
  • Luke 2:1 : 1 The Census and the Birth of Jesus Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire for taxes.
  • Acts 11:28 : 28 One of them, named Agabus, got up and predicted by the Spirit that a severe famine was about to come over the whole inhabited world.(This took place during the reign of Claudius.)
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
  • Col 1:3 : 3 Paul’s Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Church We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
  • 1 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything. 9 For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
  • Heb 13:15 : 15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, acknowledging his name.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
  • Eph 1:15 : 15 Prayer for Wisdom and Revelation For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
  • Eph 3:21 : 21 to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
  • Eph 5:20 : 20 always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 1:3-5
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    3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

    4Thanksgiving I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus.

    5For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge–

  • Rom 1:9-11
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    9For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you

    10and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

    11For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

  • 7To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

  • Phil 1:2-5
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    2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

    3Prayer for the Church I thank my God every time I remember you.

    4I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you

    5because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.

  • Phlm 1:3-6
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    3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

    4Thanks for Philemon’s Love and Faith I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers,

    5because I hear of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.

    6I pray that the faith you share with us may deepen your understanding of every blessing that belongs to you in Christ.

  • Col 1:2-4
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    78%

    2to the saints, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you from God our Father!

    3Paul’s Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Church We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

    4since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

  • Eph 1:15-16
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    15Prayer for Wisdom and Revelation For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

    16I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.

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    2Thanksgiving for Response to the Gospel We thank God always for all of you as we mention you constantly in our prayers,

    3because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    7As a result you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

    8For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything.

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    2Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

    3Thanksgiving We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater.

    4As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

  • 5Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

  • 12I am grateful to the one who has strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he considered me faithful in putting me into ministry,

  • Phil 1:7-8
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    7For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God’s grace together with me.

    8For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

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    11And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

    12that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Rom 1:15-16
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    15Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.

    16The Power of the Gospel For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

  • Phil 1:18-19
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    18What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice.Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

    19for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

  • 3Thanksgiving and Charge to Timothy I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.

  • 2 Cor 1:1-2
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    1¶ Salutation From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia.

    2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

  • 4who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

  • 9For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?

  • 11as you also join in helping us by prayer, so that many people may give thanks to God on our behalf for the gracious gift given to us through the help of many.

  • Eph 1:1-2
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    1¶ Salutation From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints[in Ephesus], the faithful in Christ Jesus.

    2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

  • 1¶ Salutation From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.

  • 11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

  • 3Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 13The whole imperial guard and everyone else knows that I am in prison for the sake of Christ,

  • 18I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,