Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Romans 16:2, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Philippians 2:29
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
- Philippians 1:27
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, tha…
- Matthew 10:40
He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
- Acts 9:41
And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
- 2 John 1:10
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
- Romans 16:9
Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
- Romans 15:7
Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
- 1 Timothy 2:10
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
- Romans 16:3
Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
- Acts 9:39
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing t…
- 2 Timothy 1:18
The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very wel…
- Philemon 1:12
Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
More to meet God in Romans
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.