Romans 15:28
◄  Romans 15:28  ►
New International Version (©2011)
So after I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received this contribution, I will go to Spain and visit you on the way.

New Living Translation (©2007)
As soon as I have delivered this money and completed this good deed of theirs, I will come to see you on my way to Spain.

English Standard Version (©2001)
When therefore I have completed this and have delivered to them what has been collected, I will leave for Spain by way of you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Therefore, when I have finished this, and have put my seal on this fruit of theirs, I will go on by way of you to Spain.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So when I have finished this and safely delivered the funds to them, I will visit you on the way to Spain.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So when I have completed this task and have put my seal on this contribution of theirs, I will visit you on my way to Spain.

NET Bible (©2006)
Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set out for Spain by way of you,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
When therefore I have finished and have ratified this fruit to them, I am going to pass by you to Espania.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When the collection is completed and I have officially turned the money over to the Christians in Jerusalem, I will visit you on my way to Spain.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you to Spain.

American King James Version
When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

American Standard Version
When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When therefore I shall have accomplished this, and consigned to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

Darby Bible Translation
Having finished this therefore, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will set off by you into Spain.

English Revised Version
When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.

Webster's Bible Translation
When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go by you into Spain.

Weymouth New Testament
So after discharging this duty, and making sure that these kind gifts reach those for whom they are intended, I shall start for Spain, passing through Rome on my way there;

World English Bible
When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.

Young's Literal Translation
This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain;

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When therefore I have performed this,.... Meaning when he had dispatched that business, and finished that affair which the Macedonian and Achaian churches had entreated him to engage in, and which he had undertook; namely, to take their collection, and carry it to Jerusalem, and distribute it among the poor saints there; and which he expresses by another phrase,

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Vincent's Word Studies

Sealed - this fruit

Secured to them the product of the contribution. See on John 3:33; see on Revelation 22:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Have sealed to them - That is, have "secured it" to them. To seal an instrument of writing, a contract, deed, etc. is to "authenticate it," to make it "sure." In this sense it is used here. Paul was going himself to see that it was placed "securely" in their hands.

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

When, therefore, I have performed this - Service, and have sealed - faithfully delivered up, to them this fruit, of the success of my ministry and of your conversion to God, I will come by you into Spain: this was in his desire; he had fully purposed it, if God should see meet to permit him; but it does not appear that he ever went. See Romans 15:24.

Geneva Study Bible

When therefore I have performed this, and have {r} sealed to them this {s} fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

(r) Performed it faithfully, and sealed it as it were with my ring.

(s) This money which was gathered for the use of the poor: and these alms are very fitly called fruit.

People's New Testament

15:28 When therefore I have performed this. As soon as he has discharged this office, it is his purpose to start to Spain, and to take Rome in on the way.

Sealed to them this fruit. Made this contribution safe to them. What is sealed is made secure.

Wesley's Notes

15:28 When I have sealed to them this fruit - When I have safely delivered to them, as under seal, this fruit of their brethren's love. I will go by you into Spain - Such was his design; but it does not appear that Paul went into Spain. There are often holy purposes in the minds of good men, which are overruled by the providence of God so as never to take effect. And yet they are precious in the sight of God.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

28, 29. When therefore I have … sealed-that is, delivered over safely

to them this fruit-of the faith and love of the Gentile converts

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Romans 15:28 Parallel Commentaries
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Paul's Plan to Visit Spain and Rome
…27It has pleased them truly; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal things. 28When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain. 29And I am sure that, when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. …

Matthew 27:66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
John 3:33 Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful.
Acts 19:21 After all this had happened, Paul decided to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. "After I have been there," he said, "I must visit Rome also."
Romans 15:24 I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to see you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while.