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Romans 15:13

罗马书 15:13

The Passage

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.

In the other language

但愿使人有盼望的神，因信将诸般的喜乐平安充满你们的心，使你们藉着圣灵的能力大有盼望。

Theme

Abounding hope

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Many readers arrive here from a real question. These are reflections for how this passage speaks to the questions people bring most often — not an answer about what will happen, but an invitation to sit with it slowly.

How do I face this season of pressure at work?

Here Paul offers a prayer, not a demand that you manufacture a cheerful mood. He asks the God of hope for joy and peace in believing, and for hope through the Holy Spirit. The verse does not explain how to reduce workplace pressure, but it gives you language for what you may need within it. You do not have to hide anxiety before praying, or mistake hope for certainty that everything will go well. You can bring your tiredness honestly and ask for what you cannot produce by effort alone. This prayer does not explain how to ease workplace pressure. How much of your effort at work is spent trying to produce the peace and hope you could instead ask God to give?

Carry thisPrayer has room for needs you cannot meet alone.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

I want to learn to love better in this relationship.

This blessing does not give instructions for a relationship; it names the hope, joy, and peace Paul desires for those who believe. Notice that hope is received, not manufactured by making everything feel all right. When you want to love better, you may be tempted to take responsibility for the whole atmosphere between you. These words make room for prayer before effort. You can acknowledge your weariness and your desire for closeness without pretending either has disappeared. Peace need not mean avoiding a difficult conversation, and hope need not mean controlling its outcome. What would you like to bring honestly before the God of hope today?

Carry thisHope can accompany honesty without requiring a certain outcome.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

What do I need to let go of in the coming weeks?

Hope appears here as a gift, not something you have to manufacture. This prayer does not identify what you need to release, but it offers a different posture from trying to hold everything together by yourself. Paul asks the God of hope for joy and peace in believing, and names the Holy Spirit as the power behind abundant hope. You need not turn that prayer into another demand to feel positive. Perhaps there is room to let go of the effort to appear hopeful when you are tired. What would you want to bring honestly into this prayer rather than trying to manage it alone?

Carry thisHope is a gift, not a performance you must sustain.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

How can I find stillness in a busy life?

Here, peace appears within a prayer, not as another task you must complete. Paul asks the God of hope to fill believers with joy and peace in believing, and he names the Holy Spirit as the source of abounding hope. When life is crowded, even stillness can become something you feel you are failing at. This passage invites a different posture: receiving rather than producing. You can bring your restless attention into this prayer without first making yourself calm. A brief pause may simply be room to acknowledge your need, rather than an attempt to empty your mind. What would you ask for if peace were a gift rather than an achievement?

Carry thisPeace is a gift to receive, not a performance.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

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Romans 15 — in context

7Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

8Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

9and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”

10Again he says, “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”

11Again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him.”

12Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”

13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

14I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

15But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

17I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

18For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

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