{"id":247,"date":"2007-11-16T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2022-03-08T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:22:28","slug":"romans-18-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Romans 1:8-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"justify\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Through Jesus Christ (v.8) \u2014 the only way to God in prayer as in anything else. Here Paul is emphasizing His incarnation, death and resurrection as the basis for our thanksgiving.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">The whole world (v.8) \u2014 everywhere that Paul went, he met people who were talking about the Romans&#8217; faith.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">God is my witness (v.9) \u2014 Paul was often perceived as cold, but his love was sincere.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Serve (v.9) = voluntary work, different from and in addition to the slavery of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=237\">Romans 1:1<\/a><\/span>.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">My spirit (v.9) \u2014 Paul is referring here to his new life in Christ, not the Holy Spirit.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Mention (v.9) = recurring remembrance<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Always in my prayers \u2014 should be connected to <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=248\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">verse 10<\/span><\/a> \u2014 <em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Always in my prayers making requests &#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=247\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}