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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

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:1-2

Romans 12:1 f. Practical Holiness.— On his doctrine Paul grounds a moral homily. Romans 12:1 . “ Therefore” covers the entire previous teaching. “ The compassions of God” link this paragraph to the last: the tenderness of the Divine mercy prompts to consecration, “ Present your bodies” recalls Romans 6:12 f.*; the demand for physical consecration arose from the prevalence of bodily sin ( cf. Romans 6:6 ; Romans 6:19, etc.). The body is made “ a living sacrifice” in the activities of daily... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 12:1

Hitherto the apostle hath discoursed of matters of faith; in this and the following chapters he sets down precepts of holy life. By the mercies of God: he useth the word in the plural number, to amplify and set forth the manifold mercies of God, in election, justification, adoption, &c.: q.d. Seeing you Gentiles have received so many and so great mercies from God; seeing he hath preferred you to his ancient people the Jews, and hath chosen and called you, when he hath rejected them; as you... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 12:2

Be not conformed to this world; do not fashion or accommodate yourselves to the corrupt principles, customs, or courses of worldly and wicked men; and what they are, you will find in Romans 13:13; Ephesians 4:18,Ephesians 4:19; 1 Peter 4:3. You have somewhat the like counsel, Exodus 23:2; 1 Peter 1:14. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind: q.d. Be you regenerated, and changed in your whole man; beginning at the mind, by which the Spirit of God worketh upon the inferior faculties of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 12:1

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 12:1.—St. Paul sums up the argument of the foregoing part of the epistle with plain rules for Christian living, and advisedly calls religion a reasonable service. Pythagoras required intelligent worship; and much more does the great Spirit demand worship in spirit. The soul stands as the priest; the body is the offering to be consecrated by the High Priest.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Romans 12:1The importance of our bodies.—If a man have a true feeling of spiritual... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 12:2

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 12:2. And be not conformed.—Be not configured to this world, but rather as Christ was transfigured on the mount. Be not like the men of this world whose all is in the present. Live for eternity.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Romans 12:2Nonconformity to the world.—We must be careful not to fall into the error of disparaging this world. The habit of holding many secular things in abhorrence is nonsense, bigotry. We need to look on all questions apart from prejudice, and be... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 12:1

Romans 12:1 I. We have in the text a very remarkable way of putting what I may call the sum of Christian service. The main leading idea is the gathering together of all Christian duty into the one mighty word sacrifice. Sacrifice, to begin with, means giving up everything to God. And how do I give up to God? When in heart and will and thought I am conscious of His presence, and do all the actions of the inner man in dependence on, and in obedience to, Him. That is the true sacrifice when I... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 12:2

Romans 12:2 The Christian Life a Transfiguration. Notice: I. Where Paul begins with an inward renewal, "the renewing of your mind." He goes deep down, because he had learned in his Master's school who said, "Make the tree good, and the fruit good." This new creation of the inner man is only possible as the result of the communication of a life from without. That communicated life from without is the life of Jesus Christ Himself put into your heart, on condition of your simply opening the door... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 12:1

DISCOURSE: 1904DEVOTEDNESS TO GOD RECOMMENDEDRomans 12:1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.THE end of all true religion is, to bring men to God. From him they have fallen, and to him must they be restored. Whatever instructions have not this object in view, are of small value. The Gospel itself would be an empty speculation, if it did not teach us to hope for some... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 12:2

DISCOURSE: 1905AGAINST CONFORMITY TO THE WORLDRomans 12:2. Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.THE morality, no less than the doctrines, of the Gospel far excels the boasted inventions of philosophy. There is not one principle in the human heart, or one action of our lives, which is not depraved by sin. The whole system of man’s conduct is deranged: and to rectify it in... read more

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

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:1-2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 12:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 12:2

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 12:1

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 12:2

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 12:1

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 12:2

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 12:1

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 12:2

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