romans-12:17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:14-18

Commands To Love All (12:14-18). Having looked at the needs of believers, Paul now turns his attention to the need for those who have experienced the mercies of God to demonstrate love towards all men, including, of course, believers. These injunctions commence with the requirement that we love even our enemies who persecute us (Romans 12:14), and they end with the need to be seen as honourable in the sight of ‘all men’, and with a desire that believers might be at peace with ‘all men’. They... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:17-18

‘Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honourable in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as in you lies, be at peace with all men.’ We might summarise these injunctions as ‘seek to get on with people’. The first warns against retaliation. The second requires that we genuinely reveal ourselves as being honourable. The third calls on us to be at peace with all. ‘Render to no man evil for evil.’ The warning here is against retaliation (compare Colossians 3:13).... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:3-21

Romans 12:3-Ecclesiastes : . In the Christian Temper, modesty is the first desideratum. Romans 12:3 . “ I tell everyone that is among you not to be high-minded above a right mind, but to be of a mind to be sober-minded” (Sp.). This is the “ mind” as temper, disposition (so in Romans 8:5-Judges :), not as intellect ( Romans 12:2). A modest temper comes from appreciating other men’ s gifts. “ Measure of faith,” as the sequel shows, means faith in the variety of its apportioned... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 12:17

Recompense to no man evil for evil; our Saviour teacheth the same doctrine in other words, Matthew 5:39,Matthew 5:40; see parallel places in Proverbs 20:22; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; 1 Peter 3:9. See more against retaliating injuries and private revenge in the three last verses of this chapter. Revenge is so sweet to flesh and blood, that men are very hardly dissuaded from it. Provide things honest in the sight of all men: q.d. Look carefully, as to your conscience before God, so to your honour and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 12:17-19

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 12:17.—Provide things honest, handsome, beautiful, useful, profitable, in the sight of men. Remove every reasonable ground of suspicion. Wear the white flower of a blameless life.Romans 12:18. Live peaceably with all men.—If commotions arise, let there be no real fault on your side. Offences will come, but see that no offence spring from unwise ordering of life.Romans 12:19. Give place unto wrath.—Do not interfere with the movements of God’s righteous indignation. Let not... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 12:16-17

Romans 12:16-17 Our Duty to Equals. I. While the compassionate view of man, as compared with the ordinary view of him in his health and strength as a flourishing member of this world, is characterised by a beauty of its own, it has at the same time the defect of being a protected state of mind, a state in which the mind is for the moment relieved of all its tendencies to irritation and to asperity, and thrown into a perfect quiet by an external event which does everything for it without an... 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 12:17

Romans 12:17Recompense to no man evil for evil.Non-retaliationI. What evils are we not to recompense?1. Not to hate others because they hate us (Matthew 5:44).2. Not to curse others because they curse us (2 Samuel 16:10; Matthew 5:44).3. Not to defraud others because they defraud us (Leviticus 19:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:6).4. Not to speak evil of others because they speak evil of us (Titus 3:2; 1 Peter 3:9).5. Not to neglect our duty to them because they do it to us.(1) Praying for them (1... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 12:17

17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Ver. 17. Recompense to no man ] In reason, revenge is but justice; Aristotle commends it, the world calls it manhood; it is doghood rather. The manlier any man is, the milder and more merciful, as David, 2 Samuel 1:12 , and Julius Caesar, who wept over Pompey’s head presented to him, and said, Non mihi placet vindicta, sed victoria, I seek not revenge, but victory. read more