Romans 1:13
Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I planned to come to you (and I was hindered until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
12that is, that I may be encouraged together with you through our mutual faith—both yours and mine.
14I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise.
Cross References
John 12:24Most assuredly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Acts 14:27Now arriving and gathering the church together, they related all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith for the Gentiles.
Acts 16:6Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the Galatian region, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia.
Acts 21:19And having greeted them, he reported one by one those things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
Romans 15:18For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out through me, in word and deed, for the obedience of the Gentiles—
Matthew Henry on Romans 1:9-16
Paul's Love to the Roman Christians. ( a. d. 58.) 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; 10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you. 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye… Read the whole commentary →