Romans Chapter 1 verse 12 Holy Bible
that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.
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That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.
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that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the faith [which is] in the other, both yours and mine.
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That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
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that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.
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and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - That is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by each other's faith, yours and mine. The spirit of delicate courtesy here evinced, in addressing persons over whom one loss of a Christian gentleman than St. Paul was might have assumed a lordly tone, is apparent elsewhere in his Epistles (cf. Romans 15:15; Romans 16:19; 2 Corinthians 2:3; 2 Corinthians 3:1, seq.; 2 Corinthians 8:8; 9:2), and especially the whole Epistle to Philemon.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) That is, that I may be comforted.--A beautiful touch of true courtesy. He is anxious to see them, that he may impart to them some spiritual gift. But no! He hastily draws back and corrects himself. He does not wish it to be implied that it is for him only to impart, and for them only to receive. He will not assume any such air of superiority. In the impulse of the moment, and in the expansiveness of his own heart, he had seemed to put it so; but his real meaning was that they should receive mutual comfort and edification.Strictly, the idea of mutual comfort is drawn from the two verses combined, not from this singly. In the last verse the Romans were the subject: "That ye may be established." Here St. Paul himself is the subject: "That I may be comforted."Comforted.--The Greek word has rather more of the sense of our "encouraged," though the idea of "comfort" is also contained in it. It is a similar word to that which is translated "comforter" in several passages in John 14, 15, 16 (where see Notes, and Excursus to St. John's Gospel).Together with you.--Literally, that I may at the same time be comforted among you; that is, "that I may be comforted at the same time that you are comforted, by my intercourse with you, through that mutual faith which acts and reacts upon each of us." The Apostle looks to obtain benefit from his intercourse with the Roman Christians. He expects that their faith will help to increase his own.There is a truth underlying the Apostle's courtesy which is not mere compliment. The most advanced Christian will receive something from the humblest. There are very few men whose "spirits are not finely touched" somewhere; and St. Paul was conscious that even an Apostle might not be equally strong at every point.
