What does Romans 15:13 mean?
Paul closes the main teaching of his letter to the Romans with this prayer. The church in Rome included both Jewish and Gentile believers who struggled to accept one another, and Paul has just urged them to welcome each other as Christ welcomed them. He calls God "the God of hope," the source of all real hope. He prays that God will fill them with joy and peace "in believing," meaning these gifts come as we keep trusting him. The goal is that they would "abound in hope," overflowing with it, not by their own effort, but "through the power of the Holy Ghost."
Romans 15:13 in the King James Version
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Context
12 Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”
13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
14 I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
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What does Romans 15:13 mean?
Paul closes the main teaching of his letter to the Romans with this prayer. The church in Rome included both Jewish and Gentile believers who struggled to accept one another, and Paul has just urged them to welcome each other as Christ welcomed them. He calls God "the God of hope," the source of all real hope. He prays that God will fill them with joy and peace "in believing," meaning these gifts come as we keep trusting him. The goal is that they would "abound in hope," overflowing with it, not by their own effort, but "through the power of the Holy Ghost."
What does Romans 15:13 say in the KJV?
Romans 15:13 (KJV) reads: “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.”