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Romans 15:26 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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. "
Romans 15:26
Verse in Context
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24 whenever I travel 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 material 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.
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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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