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For I am not ashamedy of the gospel of Christ: for it is the powerz of God unto salvation to every one that believethb; to the Jewc first, and also to the Greek.

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Mark 8:38• ³⁸For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of man also be ashamed when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. (Mark 8:38)

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2 Tim. 1:8• ⁸Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidings, according to the power of God; (2 Tim. 1:8)

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Jer. 23:29• ²⁹Is not my word like a fire, saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? (Jer. 23:29)

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1 Cor. 1:18• ¹⁸For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power. (1 Cor. 1:18)

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Mark 16:16• ¹⁶He that believes and is baptised shall be saved, and he that disbelieves shall be condemned. (Mark 16:16)

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Acts 3:26• ²⁶To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent him, blessing you in turning each one of you from your wickedness. (Acts 3:26)

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I am.

Psa. 40:9‑10• ⁹I have published righteousness in the great congregation: behold, I have not withheld my lips, Jehovah, *thou* knowest.
¹⁰I have not hidden thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation. (Psa. 40:9‑10)

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Psa. 71:15‑16• ¹⁵My mouth shall declare thy righteousness, and thy salvation all the day: for I know not the numbers thereof.
¹⁶I will go in the might of the Lord Jehovah; I will recall thy righteousness, thine alone. (Psa. 71:15‑16)

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Psa. 119:46• ⁴⁶And I will speak of thy testimonies before kings, and will not be ashamed; (Psa. 119:46)

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Mark 8:38• ³⁸For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of man also be ashamed when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. (Mark 8:38)

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Luke 9:26• ²⁶For whosoever shall have been ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he shall come in his glory, and in that of the Father, and of the holy angels. (Luke 9:26)

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1 Cor. 2:2• ²For I did not judge it well to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and *him* crucified. (1 Cor. 2:2)

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2 Tim. 1:8,12,16• ⁸Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidings, according to the power of God;
¹²For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.
¹⁶The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he has often refreshed me, and has not been ashamed of my chain; (2 Tim. 1:8,12,16)

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1 Peter 4:16• ¹⁶but if as a christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this name. (1 Peter 4:16)

the gospel.

Rom. 15:19,29• ¹⁹in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;
²⁹But I know that, coming to you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ. (Rom. 15:19,29)

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Luke 2:10‑11• ¹⁰And the angel said to them, Fear not, for behold, I announce to you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all the people;
¹¹for to-day a Saviour has been born to you in David's city, who is Christ the Lord. (Luke 2:10‑11)

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1 Cor. 9:12,18• ¹²If others partake of this right over you, should not rather *we*? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ.
¹⁸What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless to others, so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in announcing the glad tidings. (1 Cor. 9:12,18)

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2 Cor. 2:12• ¹²Now when I came to Troas for the publication of the glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in the Lord, (2 Cor. 2:12)

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2 Cor. 4:4• ⁴in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine forth for them. (2 Cor. 4:4)

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2 Cor. 4• (2 Cor. 4)

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2 Cor. 9:13• ¹³they glorifying God through the proof of this ministration, by reason of your subjection, by profession, to the glad tidings of the Christ, and your free-hearted liberality in communicating towards them and towards all; (2 Cor. 9:13)

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Gal. 1:7• ⁷which is not another one; but there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ. (Gal. 1:7)

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1 Tim. 1:11• ¹¹according to the glad tidings of the glory of the blessed God, with which *I* have been entrusted. (1 Tim. 1:11)

for it is.

Rom. 10:17• ¹⁷So faith then is by a report, but the report by God's word. (Rom. 10:17)

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Psa. 110:2• ²Jehovah shall send the sceptre of thy might out of Zion: rule in the midst of thine enemies. (Psa. 110:2)

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Isa. 53:1• ¹Who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? (Isa. 53:1)

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Jer. 23:29• ²⁹Is not my word like a fire, saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? (Jer. 23:29)

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1 Cor. 1:18‑24• ¹⁸For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power.
¹⁹For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.
²⁰Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
²¹For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe.
²²Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom;
²³but *we* preach Christ crucified, to Jews an offence, and to nations foolishness;
²⁴but to those that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ God's power and God's wisdom. (1 Cor. 1:18‑24)

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1 Cor. 2:4• ⁴and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; (1 Cor. 2:4)

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1 Cor. 14:24‑25• ²⁴But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or simple person come in, he is convicted of all, he is judged of all;
²⁵the secrets of his heart are manifested; and thus, falling upon his face, he will do homage to God, reporting that God is indeed amongst you. (1 Cor. 14:24‑25)

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1 Cor. 15:2• ²by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain. (1 Cor. 15:2)

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2 Cor. 2:14‑16• ¹⁴But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place.
¹⁵For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:
¹⁶to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who is sufficient for these things? (2 Cor. 2:14‑16)

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2 Cor. 10:4‑5• ⁴For the arms of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful according to God to the overthrow of strongholds;
⁵overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ; (2 Cor. 10:4‑5)

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Col. 1:5‑6• ⁵on account of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the glad tidings,
⁶which are come to you, as they are in all the world, and are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard them and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth: (Col. 1:5‑6)

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1 Thess. 1:5‑6• ⁵For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:
⁶and *ye* became our imitators, and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of the Holy Spirit, (1 Thess. 1:5‑6)

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1 Thess. 2:13• ¹³And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe. (1 Thess. 2:13)

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Heb. 4:12• ¹²For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Heb. 4:12)

to every.

Rom. 4:11• ¹¹And he received the sign of circumcision as seal of the righteousness of faith which he had being in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also; (Rom. 4:11)

to the Jew.

Rom. 2:9• ⁹tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that works evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek; (Rom. 2:9)

• Observe here the way in which the Apostle presents everything as coming from God. It is the gospel of God, the power of God to salvation, the righteousness of God, and even the wrath of God, and that from heaven-a different thing from earthly chastisement. (“Romans 1:1-17” by J.N. Darby)

• {I am not ashamed} His point is that the preacher of this great gospel never needs to be ashamed of what he announces, because the Lord Jesus Christ is better than he can ever state. (“Opening Salutations: Romans 1:1-17” by B. Anstey)

• (Salvation and deliverance in Paul's writings are the same thing.) (“Opening Salutations: Romans 1:1-17” by B. Anstey)

• All the barriers to man's blessing are destroyed by the power of God when a sinner receives the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour. (“Opening Salutations: Romans 1:1-17” by B. Anstey)

• Salvation in this 16th verse is the eternal aspect of salvation from the penalty of our sins. (“Opening Salutations: Romans 1:1-17” by B. Anstey)

• "To the Jew first, and also to the Greek." This shows that the gospel has no racial boundaries; it's for "everyone." (“Opening Salutations: Romans 1:1-17” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God’s power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek:

W. Kelly Translation

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for I am not ashamed of the gospela: for it is God’s power unto salvation to everyone that believeth, both to Jew first and to Greek.

WK Translation Notes

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"Of Christ" is not properly in this verse.