“For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Romans 15 contains 33 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.