Romans 12:16 NASB,NASB

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:1-21

A Call To Make Real In The Church And In The World The Righteousness Which They Have Received (12:1-15:33). This section moves from the indicative to the imperative. Having outlined the ways of God in salvation: · in applying to His people the righteousness of Christ (Romans 3:24 to Romans 4:25), · in uniting them with Christ in His death and resurrection (Romans 6:1-11), · in making them righteous within by His Spirit (Romans 8:1-18), · and in having demonstrated God’s sovereign activity in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:9-21

A Call To Fulfil The Law Of Christ And Of The Scriptures. The Working Out Of Love (12:9-21). Having dealt with what was necessary for the edifying and upbuilding of the body of Christ, Paul now turns to what is required of Christians as they live ‘in newness of life’ (Romans 6:3-4). In the terms of chapter 6 we are to be ‘slaves of righteousness’ (Romans 6:18). The injunctions appear in one sense to be a miscellany, but they cover various aspects of daily experience, and they present us with a... read more

Peter Pett

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 12:16

‘Be of the same mind one towards another. Do not set your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Do not be wise-minded in your own conceits.’ These three injunctions place great emphasis on how we ‘think in our minds’. They describe an attitude of mind permanently taken up. The first is positive, the second negative then positive, the third negative, describing how we should think, and how we should not think. They would appear mainly to have behaviour within the... 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 12:16

Be of the same mind one toward another: this exhortation respects not so much unity in judgment, as in affection: q.d. Bear the same good respect to others, as others bear to thee; let there be a mutual agreement in your desires and good wishes one for another: see Romans 15:5; Philippians 2:2; 1 Peter 3:8. Mind not high things; i.e. things above your capacities and callings. Take heed of ambitious aspirings: remember what David said (one every way above you) in Psalms 131:1. Condescend to men... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 12:13-16

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 12:12. Patient in tribulation.—θλίψις, a pressing together, pressure, from θλίβω, to press. So in Mark 3:9, “lest they should throng Him.”Romans 12:13.—Partaking of your good things with the needy. You give money; they give faith in God. Hospitality essential in those times to the spread of Christianity.Romans 12:16.—Mutually mind the same thing. Let there be unity of sentiment. Do not affect the high things of this world. Let not your wisdom be the vain fancy of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 12:15-16

Romans 12:15-16 Sympathy and Condescension. I. The first part of the text is a call to sympathy. But notice what St. Paul meant by sympathy, how he describes it. (1) It is an old remark that it is more difficult to rejoice with them that rejoice than to weep with them that weep. Let us endeavour, in little matters, within our own doors first of all to be glad when another is glad, to feel another's as our joy, to be not willing only but thankful that another should have, even though that... 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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:1-21

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:9-21

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:16

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 12:16

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 12:13-16

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 12:15-16

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 12:16-17

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 12:1-21

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