Romans 12:5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 12:4-5

These verses are a reason against arrogancy. All Christians are members of one and the same body; therefore, they should not pride themselves in their gifts, but employ them for the common good. It is with the church, the mystical body of Christ, as with a natural body that hath many members, and all these have not the same office, or the same action or operation (as the word signifieth); the eye hath one office, the ear another, the hand a third, &c. So the church of Christ, though one... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 12:4-10

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 12:5.—We are knit together in Christ, as the head in the organic life.Romans 12:6.—Prophesying is both foretelling and forthtelling. Hence preaching and expounding make the prophet. We must expound according to the rule of faith. Pleasant doctrines must not have undue prominence. We must take the word of God as a whole, and thus avoid heresies.Romans 12:9. Cleave to that which is good.—κόλλα, glue. Keeping yourselves glued to the good. Hold firmly to the true.Romans... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 12:4-8

DISCOURSE: 1907CHRISTIANS ARE ALL MEMBERS OF ONE BODYRomans 12:4-8. As we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 12:1-21

Chapter 12I beseech you therefore, brethren ( Romans 12:1 ),Because God has grafted you in, because you are partaking of the fullness of that good tree. I beseech thee, because of these things,that ye present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service ( Romans 12:1 ).God does not and has not made demands upon us. The gospel is reasonable. God said, "Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord" ( Isaiah 1:18 ).Now, of course, existential... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 12:1-21

Romans 12:1 . I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God. Under the form of entreaty he now tenderly exhorts them, in return for all the glory of redeeming love, to present their bodies to God, in chastity and in temperance, as temples of the Most High. Herodotus, the Greek priest, confesses that in the festival of Venus, the better sort of folks presented themselves to pay their respects to the goddess, while the lower sort indulged in crimes that cannot be named. Romans... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 12:4-5

Romans 12:4-5For as we have many members in one body.St. Paul’s view of lifeHow comprehensively he surveys the whole range of human action and conduct! He starts from the consideration of men as constituting “many members in one body,” and he proceeds to direct them in their various offices. He passes in review the private and public duties to which they might be called--ministering, teaching, exhorting, giving, ruling, and obeying; he depicts the spirit of the Christian in business and in... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 12:5

5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Ver. 5. One body in Christ ] See Trapp on " 1Co 12:12 " See Trapp on " 1Co 12:13 " And every one members ] Try thy membership, if, 1. Sociable with Christ and Christians. 2. Useful and serviceable to the body. 3. Compassionate, as Paul; "Who is afflicted," saith he, "and I burn not?" I feel twinges when others are hurt; and I hold myself a debtor (as a member) to Greeks and barbarians, to the wise and... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Romans 12:5

Romans 12:4, 1 Corinthians 10:17, 1 Corinthians 12:12-2 Chronicles :, 1 Corinthians 12:20, 1 Corinthians 12:27, 1 Corinthians 12:28, Ephesians 1:23, Ephesians 4:25, Ephesians 5:23, Ephesians 5:30, Colossians 1:24, Colossians 2:19 Reciprocal: John 15:5 - vine John 17:21 - they all Acts 4:32 - the multitude 1 Corinthians 1:30 - in 1 Corinthians 6:15 - your Galatians 2:9 - the grace Galatians 3:16 - which Ephesians 1:3 - in Christ Ephesians 3:6 - the same Ephesians 4:4 - one body Philippians 1:27... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 12:5

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.So we — All believers.Are one body — Closely connected together in Christ, and consequently ought to be helpful to each other. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:5

5. One body in the faith and atoning mercy of Christ. One of another Each belonged not only to the whole, but each to the other; since the good order or disorder of one limb affects every other limb. We have here a sight of the organic arrangements of the Roman Church as it existed before a later providential expediency had crystallized it into permanent form, and before the apostle had ever overseen it. The official and charismatic are so blended that while there are unity, and form, and... read more