Read the passage
Romans 15:13
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.
What surrounds this passage
Paul closes a call to patient, welcoming community with a prayer that hope, joy, and peace would overflow.
The verses on either side
- Again he says, “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”
- Again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him.”
- Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”
- 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.
- 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.
- But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,
- that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
A question to sit with
Where do you most need hope to be given rather than generated?
Why this one, and not these
- Jeremiah 29:11
- The most quoted and most misapplied verse available here. It is addressed to a nation in exile about a return after seventy years, and offered as a personal guarantee of a good outcome it makes a promise on God’s behalf that nobody can keep for a particular reader.
- Romans 8:28
- It asks the reader to believe the present difficulty is working toward good. That is a claim about their circumstances that this product is not in a position to make.
- Proverbs 13:12
- "Hope deferred makes the heart sick" describes the condition accurately and does nothing further with it. It fits a waiting record better than a hope one.
Written about this passage
- After Floodwater Gets Into Your Home: What to Do First, Free Help to Ask For, and Romans 15:13 for the Long Recovery
- Bible Verses for Encouragement: Jonathan Went to David in the Wood
- Bible Verses for Hope in Hard Times: Hope Received Rather Than Summoned
- Bible Verses for Losing a Job, and What to Pray the Week After
- Bible Verses for New Beginnings: Starting Over, Whether You Chose It or Not
- Is Cremation a Sin? What Churches Teach, What Scripture Records, and Romans 15:13 for the Family Deciding
- Is Josephine a Biblical Name? Where It Comes From, What It Means, and the Joseph Behind It
- Is Paulette a Biblical Name? The Paul Behind It, His Story, and Romans 15:13 for Hope
- One Year After an Attack on Your Church: Keeping the Day Together, and Romans 15:13 as the Building Goes Back Up
- What Does Communion Mean? The Last Supper, What Each Church Teaches, Who May Receive, and Romans 15:13
- What Does the Bible Say About Suffering? Job, the Lament Psalms and the Question Why
- What to Say to Someone Who Lost Their Job: A First Text, Offers They Can Use, and Boaz Telling His Workers to Leave Extra
- Why Do Christians Get Baptized? What the Bible Says, How Churches Differ, and Romans 15:13 for the Night Before
- Why Does God Allow Suffering? The Answers People Give, the Critics Who Answered Back, and What the Traditions Teach
- Is Zeke a Biblical Name? Ezekiel, God Strengthens, the Valley of Dry Bones, and Romans 15:13 for Hope