Romans 15:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. ”

• Romans 15:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I have therefore ... - I have cause of glorying. I have cause of rejoicing that God has made me a minister to the Gentiles, and that he has given me such success among them. The ground of this he...

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• Romans 15:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (9) I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. (9) He commends his apostleship highly by the effects, but yet in such a way that even though he s...

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• Romans 15:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Present Juncture in Paul's Ministry. Paul resumes the thread dropped at Romans 1:15 . Romans 15:14-16 . He does not think the Roman Christians in need of correction; he has written, howeve...

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• Romans 15:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  glory . See Romans 3:27 . those . the. which pertain . pertaining to. App-104.

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• Romans 15:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17. I have then, etc. After having in general commended his own calling, that the Romans might know that he was a true and undoubted apostle of Christ, he now adds testimonies, by which he p...

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• Romans 15:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. I here therefore whereof I may glory - Being sent of God on this most honorable and important errand, I...

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• Romans 15:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Things which pertain to God— We have the same phrase, Hebrews 5:1 where it signifies the things that were offered to God in the temple ministration. St. Paul, by way of allusion, speaks of the Ge...

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• Romans 15:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. I have therefore whereof I may glory - or with the article (which seems the true reading), 'I h...

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• Romans 15:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Jew and Gentile alike the Object of God's Love. The Apostle's Plans 1-13. The subject of Romans 14 is continued. 'Strength' should be displayed in helping the 'weak' after Christ's example ( Rom...

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• Romans 15:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  This is really the title on which I rest my claim. I can boast of a specially sacred office and ministry, given to me by Christ, and not merely of my own devising. The sphere of this office is a re...

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• Romans 15:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a Preacher Who Found His Own Field Romans 15:14-21 A superficial judge of the Apostle's life at the time to which he refers might have supposed him to be a mere Jewish traveler, hurrying to and...

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• Romans 15:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The most powerful argument for Christian conduct is the example of Christ. He pleased not Himself. The injunction to receive one another is an injunction addressed to Jews and Gentiles. Throughout th...

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• Romans 15:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. (15) Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the mo...

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• Romans 15:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I have therefore whereof I may glory ,.... Not in himself, for he that taught others not to glory in men, would not glory in himself; not in his carnal descent and fleshly privileges; nor in his kno...

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• Romans 15:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. Ver. 17. I have therefore, &c. ] So have all God's faithful ministers at this day against the c...

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• Romans 15:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And I myself am persuaded of you The apology which the apostle here offers for writing to a church with which he was not personally acquainted was the more necessary, because, in his letter, he had...

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• Romans 15:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The subject of Romans 14:1-23 continues through verse 7 of Romans 15:1-33 . We have seen first the Lord's authority in regard to men's consciences, then love toward our brethren a reason for consi...

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• Romans 15:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Apostle's Labours. A. D.  58.       17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Chris...

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• Romans 15:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  q.d. Having received this grace of apostleship, anti having had great success in my labours, multitudes being converted by my ministry: I have whereof to glory, or, I have matter of glorying and r...

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• Romans 15:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  3). The Ministry Of The Messiah Is To Both Jews And Gentiles (15:7-33). Paul now demonstrates that the Messiah has come in order to minister to both Jews and Gentiles, and that this has been in pa...

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• Romans 15:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Romans 15:17 .—The things of the ministry committed to Paul of God are the things in which he will glory. Romans 15:18 .—St. Paul will not take any glory to himself. There is not...

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• Romans 15:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Romans 15:13-27 . Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethr...

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• Romans 15:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Romans 15:4 . Whatsoever things were written afore-time, by Moses and the prophets concerning Christ, and the calling of the gentiles, were written in order to afford us the greatest comfort, by d...

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• Romans 15:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And I myself also am persuaded of you. Paul’s testimony to the Church in Rome I. Its substance. Fall of-- 1. Goodness. 2. Knowledge. 3. Sanctified ability. II. Its value. 1. Hone...

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• Romans 15:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Romans 16:1-45 IV . SUPPLEMENTARY . Questions have been raised and much discussed as to the connection of the last two chapters, 15. and 16., with the rest of the Epistle. The...

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• Romans 15:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  I have, therefore, whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

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• Romans 15:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 11:16-30 ; 2 Corinthians 12:1 ; 2 Corinthians 12:11 ; 2 Corinthians 2:14-16 ; 2 Corinthians 3:4-6 ; 2 Corinthians 7:4 ; Hebrews 5:1 ; Romans 4:2

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• Romans 15:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  I have whereof to glory through Jesus Christ — All my glorying is in and through him.

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