Romans 1:8

First 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.

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In The King James Version

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

In Context

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.

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,

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Cross References

Luke 2:1Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.

Romans 6:17But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

1 Corinthians 1:4I give praise to my God for you at all times, because of the grace of God which has been given to you in Christ Jesus;

Ephesians 3:21To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever. So be it.

Philippians 1:3I give praise to my God at every memory of you,

Colossians 1:3We give praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, making prayer for you at all times,

Matthew Henry on Romans 1:2-8

Romans Completed by John Evans . If we may compare scripture with scripture, and take the opinion of some devout and pious persons, in the Old Testament David's Psalms, and in the New Testament Paul's Epistles, are stars of the first magnitude, that differ from the other stars in glory. The whole scripture is indeed an epistle from heaven to earth: but in it we have upon record several particular epistles, more of Paul's than of any other, for he was the chief of the apostles, and laboured more abundantly than… Read the whole commentary →

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