Romans 15:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁷ Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to minister unto them in carnal things.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ They were pleased to do it; and surely they are in debt to them, for if these Gentiles have come to share in their [the Jerusalem Jews'] spiritual blessings, then they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to minister unto them in carnal things.

Common English Bible

²⁷ They were happy to do this, and they are actually in debt to God’s people in Jerusalem. If the Gentiles got a share of the Jewish people’s spiritual resources, they ought to minister to them with material resources.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And this has pleased them, because they are in their debt. For, since the Gentiles have become partakers of their spiritual things, they also ought to minister to them in worldly things.

Romans 15:27 Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:11

If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?

Galatians 6:6

But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

Philemon 1:19

I Paul write it with mine own hand, I will repay it: that I say not unto thee how that thou owest to me even thine own self besides.

Romans 11:17

But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;

Matthew 6:12

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.