Ro 1:16 Cross References
Romans 1:16
16: For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes--Jews first and also Gentiles.
Mark 8:38
- If a person is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, I, the Son of Man, will be ashamed of that person when I return in the glory of my Father with the holy angels."
2 Timothy 1:8
- So you must never be ashamed to tell others about our Lord. And don't be ashamed of me, either, even though I'm in prison for Christ. With the strength God gives you, be ready to suffer with me for the proclamation of the Good News.
Psalms 40:9
- I have told all your people about your justice. I have not been afraid to speak out, as you, O LORD, well know.
- I have not kept this good news hidden in my heart; I have talked about your faithfulness and saving power. I have told everyone in the great assembly of your unfailing love and faithfulness.
2 Timothy 1:12
- And that is why I am suffering here in prison. But I am not ashamed of it, for I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of his return.
1 Peter 4:16
- But it is no shame to suffer for being a Christian. Praise God for the privilege of being called by his wonderful name!
Luke 9:26
- If a person is ashamed of me and my message, I, the Son of Man, will be ashamed of that person when I return in my glory and in the glory of the Father and the holy angels.
2 Corinthians 4:4
- Satan, the god of this evil world, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe, so they are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News that is shining upon them. They don't understand the message we preach about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
- For when we brought you the Good News, it was not only with words but also with power, for the Holy Spirit gave you full assurance that what we said was true. And you know that the way we lived among you was further proof of the truth of our message.
- So you received the message with joy from the Holy Spirit in spite of the severe suffering it brought you. In this way, you imitated both us and the Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:18
- I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction. But we who are being saved recognize this message as the very power of God.
- As the Scriptures say, "I will destroy human wisdom and discard their most brilliant ideas."
- So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made them all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense.
- Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save all who believe.
- God's way seems foolish to the Jews because they want a sign from heaven to prove it is true. And it is foolish to the Greeks because they believe only what agrees with their own wisdom.
1 Corinthians 2:4
- And my message and my preaching were very plain. I did not use wise and persuasive speeches, but the Holy Spirit was powerful among you.
Romans 10:17
- Yet faith comes from listening to this message of good news--the Good News about Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:2
- For I decided to concentrate only on Jesus Christ and his death on the cross.
Hebrews 4:12
- For the word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than the sharpest knife, cutting deep into our innermost thoughts and desires. It exposes us for what we really are.
Jeremiah 23:29
- Does not my word burn like fire?" asks the LORD. "Is it not like a mighty hammer that smashes rock to pieces?
1 Corinthians 15:2
- And it is this Good News that saves you if you firmly believe it--unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.
2 Corinthians 10:4
- We use God's mighty weapons, not mere worldly weapons, to knock down the Devil's strongholds.
- With these weapons we break down every proud argument that keeps people from knowing God. With these weapons we conquer their rebellious ideas, and we teach them to obey Christ.
Romans 2:9
- There will be trouble and calamity for everyone who keeps on sinning--for the Jew first and also for the Gentile.
Galatians 1:7
- that pretends to be the Good News but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who twist and change the truth concerning Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:14
- But thanks be to God, who made us his captives and leads us along in Christ's triumphal procession. Now wherever we go he uses us to tell others about the Lord and to spread the Good News like a sweet perfume.
- Our lives are a fragrance presented by Christ to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those being saved and by those perishing.
- To those who are perishing we are a fearful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved we are a life-giving perfume. And who is adequate for such a task as this?
Acts 3:26
- When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you people of Israel, to bless you by turning each of you back from your sinful ways."
Isaiah 53:1
- Who has believed our message? To whom will the LORD reveal his saving power?
Psalms 119:46
- I will speak to kings about your decrees, and I will not be ashamed.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
- And we will never stop thanking God that when we preached his message to you, you didn't think of the words we spoke as being just our own. You accepted what we said as the very word of God--which, of course, it was. And this word continues to work in you who believe.
Colossians 1:5
- You do this because you are looking forward to the joys of heaven--as you have been ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News.
- This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is changing lives everywhere, just as it changed yours that very first day you heard and understood the truth about God's great kindness to sinners.
Luke 2:10
- but the angel reassured them. "Don't be afraid!" he said. "I bring you good news of great joy for everyone!
- The Savior--yes, the Messiah, the Lord--has been born tonight in Bethlehem, the city of David!
1 Corinthians 9:12
- If you support others who preach to you, shouldn't we have an even greater right to be supported? Yet we have never used this right. We would rather put up with anything than put an obstacle in the way of the Good News about Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:12
- Well, when I came to the city of Troas to preach the Good News of Christ, the Lord gave me tremendous opportunities.
2 Timothy 1:16
- May the Lord show special kindness to Onesiphorus and all his family because he often visited and encouraged me. He was never ashamed of me because I was in prison.
1 Timothy 1:11
- that comes from the glorious Good News entrusted to me by our blessed God.
2 Corinthians 9:13
- You will be glorifying God through your generous gifts. For your generosity to them will prove that you are obedient to the Good News of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:18
- What then is my pay? It is the satisfaction I get from preaching the Good News without expense to anyone, never demanding my rights as a preacher.
1 Corinthians 14:24
- But if all of you are prophesying, and unbelievers or people who don't understand these things come into your meeting, they will be convicted of sin, and they will be condemned by what you say.
- As they listen, their secret thoughts will be laid bare, and they will fall down on their knees and worship God, declaring, "God is really here among you."
Romans 15:19
- I have won them over by the miracles done through me as signs from God--all by the power of God's Spirit. In this way, I have fully presented the Good News of Christ all the way from Jerusalem clear over into Illyricum.
Romans 15:29
- And I am sure that when I come, Christ will give me a great blessing for you.
Romans 4:11
- The circumcision ceremony was a sign that Abraham already had faith and that God had already accepted him and declared him to be righteous--even before he was circumcised. So Abraham is the spiritual father of those who have faith but have not been circumcised. They are made right with God by faith.
Psalms 71:15
- I will tell everyone about your righteousness. All day long I will proclaim your saving power, for I am overwhelmed by how much you have done for me.
- I will praise your mighty deeds, O Sovereign LORD. I will tell everyone that you alone are just and good.
Psalms 110:2
- The LORD will extend your powerful dominion from Jerusalem; you will rule over your enemies.
John 7:35
- The Jewish leaders were puzzled by this statement. "Where is he planning to go?" they asked. "Maybe he is thinking of leaving the country and going to the Jews in other lands, or maybe even to the Gentiles!