{"id":476,"date":"2009-02-12T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2022-04-01T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:31:51","slug":"romans-1513","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Romans 15:13"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span id=\"en-NKJV-28317\" class=\"text Rom-15-13\"><sup class=\"versenum\">13\u00a0<\/sup>Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>God is the author of hope \u2014 assurance<\/h3>\n<h3>Should read God of <em><u>the<\/u><\/em> hope.<\/h3>\n<h3>This is Paul&#8217;s final reason for unity \u2014 we share the hope.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Trinity: God authored the hope, Christ embodied the hope, the Holy Spirit empowers us to embrace it.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #009900;\">This verse is a great summary of the blessed life in the brotherhood formed by our oneness in Jesus Christ. The <em>source<\/em> of that life is the God of hope. The <em>measure<\/em> of that life is that we shall be filled &#8220;with all joy and peace.&#8221; The <em>quality<\/em> of that life is joy and peace which He desires for us. The <em>condition<\/em> of that life is faith \u2014 we enter by believing. The <em>purpose<\/em> of that life is that we might abound. The <em>enabling<\/em> of that life is divine power. And the <em>director<\/em> of that life is the Holy Spirit. These seven aspects sum up the Christian life. \u2014 Barnhouse, page 72-73.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13\u00a0Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. God is the author of hope \u2014 assurance Should read God of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=476\">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-476","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\/476","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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6751,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/6751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}