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Romans 15:16 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. "
Romans 15:16
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
14 I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
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,
16 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
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,
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Romans 15:1
"Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves."
Romans 15:2
"Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up."
Romans 15:3
"For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”"
Romans 15:4
"For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."
Romans 15:5
"Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,"
Romans 15:6
"that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."
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