Romans 16:21 NLT,NIV,ESV

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 16:21-23

(21-23) The companions of St. Paul add their own greetings to the Roman Church. read more

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 16:1-27

Fellow-workers in Christ Romans 16:3-5 'Greet Priscilla.' 'Greet Mary.' 'Greet Amplias.' Salute Apelles.' 'Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas.' And so on, and so on. And let us mark that these delicate courtesies come at the end of this tremendous Epistle, an Epistle which for sheer power of reasoning was regarded by Coleridge as unsurpassed in literature. I. First of all, I notice that Priscilla and Aquila have a common rootage with Paul. 'My fellow-workers in Christ Jesus.' The great... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 16:1-27

Chapter 32A COMMENDATION; GREETINGS; A WARNING; A DOXOLOGYRomans 16:1-27ONCE more, with a reverent license of thought, we may imagine ourselves to be watching in detail the scene in the house of Gaius. Hour upon hour has passed over Paul and his scribe as the wonderful Message has developed itself, at once and everywhere the word of man and the Word of God. They began at morning, and the themes of sin, and righteousness, and glory, of the present and the future of Israel, of the duties of the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 16:1-27

CHAPTER 16 1. Greetings to Individuals. (Romans 16:1-16 .) 2. Warning and Comfort. (Romans 16:17-20 .) 3. The Final Salutations. (Romans 16:21-24 .) 4. The Conclusion. (Romans 16:25-27 .) Romans 16:1-16 Phoebe (which means “radiant”) is first mentioned. She was probably a person of great influence and wealth, for she had been a succorer of many, including the Apostle. She is heartily commended to the assembly in Rome, to be received in the Lord, worthily of the Saints. Then that... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 16:21

16:21 {5} Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.(5) He adds salutations, partly to renew mutual friendship, and partly to the end that this epistle might be of some weight with the Romans, having the confirmation of so many that subscribed to it. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 16:1-27

Communications, Greetings and Closing This chapter has a character peculiar to itself; and being a fifth subdivision of the last division (chapters 12 to 16) of the book, we may expect in some sense a resume of the practical results of the truth in the lives of saints. Indeed it is manifestly a sort of Deuteronomy - God with man, as it were, rehearsing the ways of the wilderness. Thus, can we not discern in it a little picture of the judgement seat of Christ - ending with its ascription of... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Romans 16:1-27

PRACTICAL APPLICATION In chapter 6 Paul revealed the secret of experimental sanctification as the yielding of one’s self unto God, in which case sin would not have dominion over one In chapter 8 he showed the divine process of sanctification as the work of the Holy Spirit in the believer. Having finished the doctrinal part of his epistle, he returns to what he then said (chap. 6), and exhorts us to yield because of the “mercies of God” of which he had been speaking throughout (Romans 12:1-2... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Romans 16:21-27

Timothy my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. (22) I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord. (23) Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother. (24) The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. (25) Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Romans 16:21-24

21-24 The apostle adds affectionate remembrances from persons with him, known to the Roman Christians. It is a great comfort to see the holiness and usefulness of our kindred. Not many mighty, not many noble are called, but some are. It is lawful for believers to bear civil offices; and it were to be wished that all offices in Christian states, and in the church, were bestowed upon prudent and steady Christians. read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Romans 16:1-99

Romans 16 IN CHAPTER 16 we get the closing salutations. Phebe seems to have been the bearer of the epistle, and Paul works in this word of commendation concerning her so that the saints at Rome might freely and without question receive her. She had succoured many and even Paul himself in the course of her service at Cenchrea. The word, “servant” is really, “deaconess.” From verse Rom_16:3 to verse Rom_16:15 we have a long list of names of those in Rome to whom salutations were sent. At the... read more