Romans 15:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

I

Filled

1 Corinthians 8:1

Able

Bible References

I

For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God's grace together with me.

I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you.

Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than what I am asking you to do.

But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

Therefore, I intend to remind you constantly of these things even though you know them and are well established in the truth that you now have.

I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Filled

With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that "we all have knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Able

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.

Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing.

Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good.

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,