Romans 16:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord. ”

Romans 16:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Tryphena and Tryphosa - These names, with the participle rendered “who labor,” are in the feminine gender, and these were probably two holy women, who performed the function of deaconesses, or wh...
Romans 16:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Personal Greetings. Beside the two household groups of Romans 16:10 f., the catalogue contains twenty-six names, eight being those of women. Many of the names appearing were commonly borne by sla...
Romans 16:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Tryphena and Tryphosa . Only here. Greek, feminine names. labour, laboured . As in Romans 16:6 . the beloved . Not "my" as in Romans 8:9 . Persia . Greek feminine name.
Romans 16:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord. Tryphena and Tryphosa - Two holy women, who it seems were assistants to the apostle i...
Romans 16:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord. Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord - two active females....
Romans 16:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Greetings and Warnings 1-16. Commendation and greetings. Observe the number of women to whom the Apostle sends greeting. The fact is indicative of the change wrought in the position of women by t...
Romans 16:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Tryphena and Tryphosa. — Probably sisters or near relatives. They, too, may have been attached to the court.
Romans 16:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 32 A COMMENDATION; GREETINGS; A WARNING; A DOXOLOGY Romans 16:1-27 ONCE more, with a reverent license of thought, we may imagine ourselves to be watching in detail the scene in the hou...
Romans 16:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Personal Interest in Fellow-Christians Romans 16:1-16 Here is a window into Paul's heart. He was apparently disowned by his own kindred, yet, as the Lord had promised, He had mothers, sisters,...
Romans 16:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the salutation twenty-six persons are named. Two-thirds of these names are Greek, which, in all probability, are names of persons the apostle had actually known in his work in Asia. Phoebe was spe...
Romans 16:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. (9) Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. (10) Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household. (11) Sa...
Romans 16:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord ,.... These two were women, and are said to be noble women of Iconium, whom the apostle converted there, and afterwards went to Rome the names ar...
Romans 16:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord. Ver. 12. Who labour in the Lord ] Though not so much as Persis did, yet doth he n...
Romans 16:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa Probably two sisters; who labour in the Lord In the service of the Lord, according to their stations: as did also Persis, who seems to be here termed beloved , becau...
Romans 16:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Communications, Greetings and Closing This chapter has a character peculiar to itself; and being a fifth subdivision of the last division (Chapter s 12 to 16) of the book, we may expect in some se...
Romans 16:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Friendly Salutations; Apostolic Salutations. A. D. 58. 1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister,...
Romans 16:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He salutes several women as well as men: you read before of Priscilla, Romans 16:3 ; of Mary, Romans 16:6 ; and now he adds three more in this verse. He saith of the two first, that they labou...
Romans 16:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1). Final Greetings And Exhortations (16:1-16). It is unusual to find such a detailed list of people to be greeted in Paul's letters. Indeed, in most of his letters no specific person is individua...
Romans 16:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Romans 16:7 . My kinsmen .—Kindred. Perhaps in this passage the wider sense of fellow-countrymen. It is difficult to state what is the imprisonment here mentioned. Romans 16:8-9...
Romans 16:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 16:1 . I commend to you Phebe a servant of the church. Διακονον, a deaconess of the church at Cenehrea, the eastern port of Corinth, where Paul shaved his head, that he might be purifie...
Romans 16:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

The conclusion of the Epistle 1. This is scarcely the kind of conclusion that one would have expected. One would have thought that the rapt apostle, having been borne to the loftiest circles of co...
Romans 16:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Romans 16:1-45 K. Commendation of Phoebe, and salutations to Christians at Rome. Romans 16:1 , Romans 16:2 I commend unto you Phoebe our sister ( i.e. fellow-Chr...
Romans 16:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Greetings sent by Paul to friends and acquaintances:
Romans 16:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 15:10 ; 1 Corinthians 15:58 ; 1 Corinthians 16:16 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:12 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:13 ; 1 Timothy 4:10 ; 1 Timothy 5:17 ; 1 Timothy 5:18 ; Colo...
Romans 16:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Women of the Early Church Romans 16:1-16 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is, perhaps, no one chapter in the Bible which so marvelously reveals the womanhood of the early church, as the women desc...
Romans 16:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa — Probably they were two sisters.

Romans 16:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Romans 16:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 16:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Romans 16:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Romans 16:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Romans 16:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 16:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Romans 16:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Romans 16:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Romans 16:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Romans 16:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Romans 16:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Romans 16:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Romans 16:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 16:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 16:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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

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

Romans 16:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Romans 16:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 16:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Romans 16:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Romans 16:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Romans 16:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 16:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Romans 16:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes