Romans 1:13

World English Bible (2000)

Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

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  • Acts 19:21 : 21 Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."
  • Phil 4:17 : 17 Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
  • Col 1:6 : 6 which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
  • 1 Thess 2:18 : 18 because we wanted to come to you--indeed, I, Paul, once and again--but Satan hindered us.
  • 1 Thess 4:13 : 13 But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
  • John 4:36 : 36 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
  • John 15:16 : 16 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
  • 1 Cor 10:1 : 1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
  • 1 Cor 12:1 : 1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.
  • 2 Cor 1:8 : 8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
  • 2 Cor 1:15-16 : 15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit; 16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
  • 2 Cor 2:14 : 14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
  • 2 Cor 10:13-16 : 13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you. 14 For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ, 15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence, 16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
  • Rom 15:18-20 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ; 20 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.
  • Rom 15:22-28 : 22 Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you, 23 but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you, 24 whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while. 25 But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints. 26 For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem. 27 Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things. 28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
  • 1 Cor 9:2 : 2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
  • Acts 14:27 : 27 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
  • Acts 15:12 : 12 All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
  • Acts 16:6-7 : 6 When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. 7 When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn't allow them.
  • John 12:24 : 24 Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
  • Acts 21:19 : 19 When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
  • 2 Thess 2:7 : 7 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
  • 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
  • 1 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything. 9 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead--Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
  • 1 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe. 14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;
  • Isa 27:6 : 6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

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    22 Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

    23 but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

    24 whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

  • 2 Cor 1:15-16
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    15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

    16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

  • Rom 1:10-12
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    10 requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

    11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

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

  • Phil 1:12
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    12 Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;

  • 1 Thess 2:17-18
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    17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

    18 because we wanted to come to you--indeed, I, Paul, once and again--but Satan hindered us.

  • Rom 11:25
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    25 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

  • Rom 1:14-15
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    14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

    15 So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

  • Rom 15:28-29
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    28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.

    29 I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-5
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    3 But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

    4 so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

    5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

  • 2 John 1:12
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    12 Having many things to write to you, I don't want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

  • Phil 1:26-27
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    26 that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

    27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.

  • Phlm 1:13-14
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    13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

    14 But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

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    15 But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

  • Gal 4:13
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    13 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

  • 1 Cor 16:12
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    12 Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.

  • Rom 15:18-20
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    18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

    19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

    20 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.

  • 1 Cor 4:18
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    18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

  • 1 Cor 2:1
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    1 When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

  • 1 Thess 2:1
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    1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain,

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • 2 Cor 11:9
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    9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

  • 2 Cor 2:3
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    3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

  • Rom 15:31-32
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    31 that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

    32 that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

  • 1 Thess 3:5
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    5 For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

  • 1 Thess 1:5
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    5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

  • Gal 1:16
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    16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

  • Gal 2:2
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    2 I 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.

  • Phil 1:7
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    7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

  • Acts 18:27
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    27 When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

  • Col 2:1
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    1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

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    1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

  • Phil 4:10
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    10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.