Romans 1:5
Good News Translation
Through him God gave me the privilege of being an apostle for the sake of Christ, in order to lead people of all nations to believe and obey.

New Revised Standard Version
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for the sake of his name,

Contemporary English Version
Jesus was kind to me and chose me to be an apostle, so that people of all nations would obey and have faith.

New American Bible
Through him we have received the grace of apostleship, to bring about the obedience of faith, for the sake of his name, among all the Gentiles,

Douay-Rheims Bible
By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith, in all nations, for his name:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith, in all nations, for his name:

we have.

Romans 12:3 For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith.

Romans 15:15,16 But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in some sort, as it were putting you in mind, because of the grace which is given me from God, . . .

John 1:16 And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace.

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

2 Corinthians 3:5,6 Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. . . .

Galatians 1:15,16 But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace, . . .

Ephesians 3:2-9 If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you: . . .

1 Timothy 1:11,12 Which is according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God which hath been committed to my trust. . . .

apostleship.

Acts 1:25 To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place.

1 Corinthians 9:2 And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Galatians 2:8,9 (For he who wrought in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision wrought in me also among the Gentiles.) . . .

for obedience to the faith.

Romans 15:18,19 For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, . . .

Romans 16:26 (Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith) known among all nations:

Acts 6:7 And the word of the Lord increased: and the number of the disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great multitude also of the priests obeyed the faith.

2 Corinthians 10:4-6 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to God, unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels, . . .

Hebrews 5:9 And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation:

among.

Romans 3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? yes, of the Gentiles also.

for his name.

Malachi 1:11,14 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Acts 15:14 Simon hath related how God first visited to take to the Gentiles, a people to his name.

Ephesians 1:6,12 Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son. . . .

1 Peter 2:9,10 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: . . .

Context
Greeting the Saints in Rome
4Who was predestinated the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of sanctification, by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead: 5By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith, in all nations, for his name: 6Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ:…
Cross References
Acts 1:25
To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place.

Acts 6:7
And the word of the Lord increased: and the number of the disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great multitude also of the priests obeyed the faith.

Acts 9:15
And the Lord said to him: Go thy way: for this man is to me a vessel of election, to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.

Romans 12:3
For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith.

Romans 15:18
For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

Romans 16:26
(Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith) known among all nations:

Galatians 1:16
To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles: immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood.

Romans 1:4
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