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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 15:7-12

The apostle here returns to his exhortation to Christians. What he says here (Rom. 15:7) is to the same purport with the former; but the repetition shows how much the apostle's heart was upon it. ?Receive one another into your affection, into your communion, and into your common conversation, as there is occasion.? He had exhorted the strong to receive the weak (Rom. 14:1), here, Receive one another; for sometimes the prejudices of the weak Christian make him shy of the strong, as much as the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 15:7-13

15:7-13 So, then, welcome one another as Christ welcomed you, that God may be praised. What I mean is this--Christ became a servant of the Jewish race and way of life for the sake of God's truth, not only to guarantee the promises which the fathers received, but also that the Gentiles should praise God for his mercy. As it stands written: "Therefore I will offer praise to God among the Gentiles and I will sing to your name." And, again it says: "Rejoice, O Gentiles with his people." And,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 15:8

Now I say ,.... Or affirm that Christ has received both Jews and Gentiles: that he has received the Jews, and therefore they are not to be despised, though they are weak, appears from hence, that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision ; he is rightly called a minister, for this was the end of his coming into the world, and the whole of his work in it was not to be ministered unto, but to minister to others, Matthew 20:28 , both in life and at death. This character agrees with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 15:9

And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy ,.... In choosing them in Christ as vessels of mercy, and in redeeming them by Christ as well as the Jews, and in regenerating and calling them by his abundant grace; and which as they clearly show that Christ has received them, and therefore are not to be censured and judged as irreligious persons, because of the use of their Christian liberty; so these things lay them under obligations to glorify God, to show forth his praise both by... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 15:8

Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision - To show the Gentiles the propriety of bearing with the scrupulous Jews, he shows them here that they were under the greatest obligations to this people; to whom, in the days of his flesh, Jesus Christ confined his ministry; giving the world to see that he allowed the claim of the Jews as having the first right to the blessings of the Gospel. And he confined his ministry thus to the Jews, to confirm the truth of God, contained in the promises... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 15:9

And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy - As the Jews were to glorify God for his truth, so the Gentiles were to glorify God for his mercy. The Jews received the blessings of the Gospel by right of promise, which promise God had most punctually and circumstantially fulfilled. The Gentiles had received the same Gospel as an effect of God's mere mercy, having no right in consequence of any promise or engagement made with any of their ancestors, though they were originally... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 15:8

Verse 8 8.Now I say, that Jesus Christ, etc. He now shows that Christ has embraced us all, so that he leaves no difference between the Jews and the Gentiles, except that in the first place he was promised to the Jewish nation, and was in a manner peculiarly destined for them, before he was revealed to the Gentiles. But he shows, that with respect to that which was the seed of all contentions, there was no difference between them; for he had gathered them both from a miserable dispersion, and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 15:9

Verse 9 9.The Gentiles also, (446) etc. This is the second point, on proving which he dwells longer, because it was not so evident. The first testimony he quotes is taken from Psalms 18:0; which psalm is recorded also in 2 Samuel 22:0, where no doubt a prophecy is mentioned concerning the kingdom of Christ; and from it Paul proves the calling of the Gentiles, because it is there promised, that a confession to the glory of God should be made among the Gentiles; for we cannot really make God... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 15:1-13

H. Renewed admonition to bear with the weak, enforced by Scripture and the example of Christ. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 15:1-13

Union in God. Here, as Godet says, "the particular question treated in Romans 14:1-23 . broadens; the point of view rises, and the tone is gradually heightened even to the elevation of a hymn, as at the end of all the great parts preceding ( Romans 5:12 , et seq.; Romans 8:31 , et seq.; Romans 11:33 , et seq. ) . Paul first exhorts, by the example of Christ, to mutual condescension ( Romans 14:1-3 ); he points out ( Romans 14:4-7 ), as an end to be reached, the common... read more

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