Romans 15:8-16 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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 15:13

Here is another prayer directed to God, as the God of hope; and it is, as the former (Rom. 15:5), for spiritual blessings: these are the blest blessings, and to be first and chiefly prayed for. I. Observe how he addresses himself to God, as the God of hope. It is good in prayer to fasten upon those names, titles, and attributes of God, which are most suitable to the errand we come upon, and will best serve to encourage our faith concerning it. Every word in the prayer should be a plea. Thus... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 15:14-16

Here, I. He commends these Christians with the highest characters that could be. He began his epistle with their praises (Rom. 1:8), Your faith is spoken of throughout the world, thereby to make way for his discourse: and, because sometimes he had reproved them sharply, he now concludes with the like commendation, to qualify them, and to part friends. This he does like an orator. It was not a piece of idle flattery and compliment, but a due acknowledgment of their worth, and of the grace of... 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

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 15:14-21

15:14-21 Brothers, I myself am quite sure that you, as you are, are full of goodness and replete with all knowledge and well able to give good advice to one another. I write to you with a certain amount of boldness, as it were, with the purpose of reminding you of what you already know. My ground for doing so is the God-given grace which made me the servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, and gave me the sacred task of telling the good news, and my aim in doing so is to make the Gentiles an... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 15:10

And again he saith ,.... God or Christ, in Deuteronomy 32:43 ; rejoice ye Gentiles with his people ; which from the Hebrew text are by some rendered, "rejoice his people O ye Gentiles"; to which agree the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, who render it, "praise O ye nations his people"; or as some copies of the former, "the judgment of his people"; and the latter adds, the house of Israel. The note of R. Sol. Jarchi on the text is, "at that time the nations shall praise Israel; see... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 15:11

And again ,.... It is written in Psalm 117:1 , praise the Lord all ye Gentiles, and laud him all ye people ; that is, praise him both Jews and Gentiles, for his merciful kindness and truth, as in Romans 15:2 ; the Gentiles for his mercy in choosing, redeeming, and calling them, as before; and the Jews for his truth and faithfulness in the fulfilment of his praises. R. David Kimchi on this psalm observes, that "it consists of two verses only, and that it belongs לימות המשיח ,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 15:12

And again Esaias saith ,.... In Isaiah 11:10 ; there shall be a root of Jesse . This prophecy is applied to the Messiah by the Jews F25 Zohar in Exod. fol. 71. 1. Vid. R. Aben Ezra & R. David Kimchi in loc. , who say, "that when the King Messiah is revealed, there shall be gathered to him all the nations of the world, so that that Scripture shall be fulfilled which is written, "there shall be a root of Jesse", &c.;' This character, "the root of Jesse", may be... read more

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 15:13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 15:14-16

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

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 15:14-21

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 15:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 15:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 15:12

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