Romans 16:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

Obedience

Romans 1:8

1 Thessalonians 1:8

I am

Yet

Bible References

Obedience

First I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the news of your faith is spreading all over the world.

For the Lord's message has rung out from you not only over Macedonia and Greece, but the story of your belief in God has gone everywhere, so that we never need to mention it.

I am

This is why I, for my part, since I have heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus that prevails among you and among all God's people,

We never pray for you without thanking God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

We always thank God for you all when we mention you in our prayers,

But now that Timothy has just come back to me from you, and brought me good news of your faith and love, and told me how kindly you think of me and that you long to see me just as much as I long to see you,

Yet

"Here I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So you must be wise like serpents, and guileless like doves.

Brothers, you must not be children mentally. In evil be babies, but mentally be mature.

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation through the knowledge of himself,

So do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

And it is my prayer that your love may grow richer and richer in knowledge and perfect insight,

That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,

Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts.

and how from childhood you have known the Scriptures which can give you the wisdom that through faith in Christ Jesus leads to salvation.

What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.