Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary9. For God … whom I serve—the word denotes religious service. with my spirit—from my inmost soul. in the gospel of his Son—to which Paul's whole religious life and official activity were consecrated. is my witness, that without ceasing I make menti...
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 1:1-7 The doctrine of which the apostle Paul wrote, set forth the fulfilment of the promises by the prophets. It spoke of the Son of God, even Jesus the Saviour, the promised Messiah, who came from David as to his human nature, but was also declared...
(Romans 1:21–22) How can these verses label nonbelievers as “foolish” when many brilliant minds throughout history have not believed in God? What does the Bible say about being ungrateful? Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) They knew enough of God to know that thanks and ...
Pulpit Commentary Verse 32.-Who(οἵτινες, with its usual significance, as before)knowing the judgment of God, that they which practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also have pleasure in them that practise them. In this concluding verse the main poi...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. By the "recompense" (ἀντιμ...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - For the invisible things of him from (i.e. since, ἀπὸ) the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Divinity (θειότης, not θεότης); so that they are with...
Top 10 Lessons from Romans 1What is the power of God for salvation?What constitutes the Bible?What reasons are there to believe in Jesus?What defines Pauline Theology in Christian doctrine? Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Which he had promised.--More correctly, which He promised ...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. Which was made; or, was born. But the word in itself, γενομένου, need only mean that he became a Man of the seed of David; implying, it would seem, a pre-existence of him who so became. This, however, is more evident from other passages, in...
◄Romans 1:24► Pulpit Commentary Homiletics Downward Evolution Romans 1:22-25 S.F. Aldridge No charge more acutely stings a man than that of being considered senseless; he would rather be deemed a knave than a fool. The apostle shows that man, whom God created upright that he might ...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. Observe the graceful way in which St. Paul intimates his obligation to the mother of Rufus, who at some time (though when and where we know not) had been as a mother to himself. Similar delicate co...