Romans 15:7-9 NIV

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 15:7

Wherefore receive ye one another ,.... Into your hearts and affections; embrace one another cordially, the Jew the Gentile, the Gentile the Jew, the strong brother the weak, the weak the strong: as Christ also received us . The Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read "you". Both Jews and Gentiles, as appears from the following verses. Christ received all the chosen ones into his heart's love and affection from eternity; he received them in the council of... 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 15:7

Wherefore receive ye one another - Προσλαμβανεσθε Have the most affectionate regard for each other, and acknowledge each other as the servants and children of God Almighty. As Christ also received us - Καθως και ὁ Χριστος προσελαβετο ἡμας· In the same manner, and with the same cordial affection, as Christ has received us into communion with himself, and has made us partakers of such inestimable blessings, condescending to be present in all our assemblies. And as Christ has... 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 15:7

Verse 7 7.Receive ye then, etc. He returns to exhortation; and to strengthen this he still retains the example of Christ. For he, having received, not one or two of us, but all together, has thus connected us, so that we ought to cherish one another, if we would indeed continue in his bosom. Only thus then shall we confirm our calling, that is, if we separate not ourselves from those whom the Lord has bound together. The words,to the glory of God, may be applied to us only, or to Christ, or to... 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

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 15:7

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 15:7

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 15:7

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

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