Romans 16:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ For your obedience is known to all; therefore, I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good and guileless in what is evil.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ For while your loyalty and obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, I would have you well versed and wise as to what is good and innocent and guileless as to what is evil.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ The news of your obedience has reached everybody, so I’m happy for you. But I want you to be wise about what’s good, and innocent about what’s evil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ But your obedience has been made known in every place. And so, I rejoice in you. But I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple in what is evil.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ For your obedience is published in every place. I rejoice therefore in you. But I would have you to be wise in good, and simple in evil.

Romans 16:19 Cross References

Psalm 101:2

I will study the way that is blameless. When shall I attain it? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house;

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Luke 10:3

Go on your way; I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves.

Romans 1:8

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the world.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.

Ephesians 5:17

So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Philippians 1:9

And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight

Philippians 2:15

so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world,

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.