Romans 10:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? ”

• Romans 10:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  But they have not all obeyed the gospel - It is not easy to see the connection of this; and it has been made a question whether this is to be regarded as a continuation of the objection of the Je...

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• Romans 10:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (10) But they have not (l) all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? (10) Wherever faith is, there is also the word, but not the opposite, namely, wherever the wor...

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• Romans 10:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Rejectors of God's Message. Romans 10:16-18 . Hearing the glad tidings is the opportunity of salvation: can it be that they did not hear? Nay, surely, the sound has reached every land. Not he...

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• Romans 10:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  gospel . See App-140. hath . Omit. our report . the hearing of us. Quoted from Isaiah 53:1 .

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• Romans 10:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  16. But all have not obeyed the gospel, etc. This belongs not to the argument, which Paul designed to follow in the gradation he lays down; nor does he refer to it in the conclusion which im...

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• Romans 10:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? But they have not all obeyed the Gospel - This seems to be the objection of a Jew; as if he had said: A...

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• Romans 10:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But they have not all obeyed— This seems an objection of the Jews to what St. Paul had said, which he answers in this and the following verse. The objection and answer may stand thus: "You tell us,...

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• Romans 10:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? But they have not all obeyed the gospel - the Scripture has prepared us to expect the general re...

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• Romans 10:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Israel rejected through lack of Faith In Romans 9 St. Paul, defending the gospel against objections founded upon the fact that it had been rejected by the Jews as a whole, showed that God had ne...

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• Romans 10:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (14-21) Thus there is a distinct order — belief, confession, invocation. But before either the last or the first of these steps is taken the gospel must be preached. The Jew, however, cannot plead th...

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• Romans 10:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 21 JEWISH UNBELIEF AND GENTILE FAITH: PROPHECY Romans 10:1-21 THE problem of Israel is still upon the Apostle's soul. He has explored here and there the conditions of the fact that his...

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• Romans 10:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Needing Messengers of Good Tidings Romans 10:11-21 The Chosen People chafed, not only at the freeness of God's justifying grace, but because there was no difference made, so far as salvation wa...

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• Romans 10:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The apostle ever had in mind the Master Himself when he spoke of the righteousness of God. The idea of that righteousness, held by Israel was due to their misunderstanding of the written law, their i...

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• Romans 10:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? (15) And how shall they prea...

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• Romans 10:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But they have not all obeyed the Gospel ,.... Who hear it, and to whom it is preached; for though ministers may be regularly sent forth, and rightly preach the Gospel in the purity of it, yet there...

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• Romans 10:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? Ver. 16. Who hath believed our report? ] Gr. ακοην, our hearing, passively taken. So Caesar and Cice...

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• Romans 10:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  How then As if the apostle had said, From the promise of salvation made to them that shall call on the name of the Lord, I have inferred, that there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, as t...

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• Romans 10:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Contrast Between Israel's Law and Their Need of Grace In Romans 9:1-33 we have seen God's sovereign title maintained in having an elect people according to grace. Now in Romans 10:1-21 the cont...

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• Romans 10:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Importance of Preaching the Gospel; Perverseness of Israel. A. D.  58.       12 For there is no dif...

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• Romans 10:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  But they have not all obeyed the gospel: he here preventeth a cavil of the Jews. Thus they might reason: If the apostles and preachers of the gospel are sent with so great authority from God, and b...

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• Romans 10:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  God Has Sent Out His Messianic Messengers To The World But Israel Have Not Listened (10:14-21). Having established that salvation is to be found through faith in Jesus the Messiah, and that it is...

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• Romans 10:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Romans 10:12 .—A favourite Pauline expression declaring the exuberant grace of Christ. Romans 10:13 .—Double argument for Christ’s divinity. He is called Jehovah, and is invoked....

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• Romans 10:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Romans 10:1 . Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. No curse falls from his lips, though they had persecuted him without mercy, hunted him from ci...

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• Romans 10:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Romans 10:1 . My heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. Chrysostom's comment is, my “vehement desire” for their salvation. St. Paul having declared his mind, in...

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• Romans 10:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? Obedience to the gospel 1. Paul prevents an objection to that which was said concerning the preac...

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• Romans 10:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION In this chapter the view of the whole subject introduced at Romans 9:30 is continued and carried out, according to which the present rejection of the Jews as a nation is traced to n...

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• Romans 10:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  But they have not all obeyed the Gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

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• Romans 10:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:22 ; 1 Peter 2:8 ; 1 Peter 3:1 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:8 ; Acts 28:24 ; Galatians 3:1 ; Galatians 5:7 ; Hebrews 11:8 ; Hebrews 4:2 ; Hebrews 5:9 ; Isaiah 50:10 ; Isaiah 53:1 ; John...

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• Romans 10:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Isaiah 53:1 .

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