Romans 16:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the God of peace shall bruiseb Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. ”

Romans 16:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the God of peace - The God who promotes peace; Romans 15:33 . Will bruise - The “language” here refers to the prediction in Genesis 3:15 . It here means to “subdue, to gain the victory...
Romans 16:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(4) And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen. (4) We must fight with a certain hope of victory.
Romans 16:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

A Postscript of Admonition. Romans 16:17 . Supposing the paragraph in its right place (see Introd. § 4), it would seem that Paul, in glancing over his letter and thinking of the troubles of other...
Romans 16:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the God, &c . See Romans 15:33 . God . App-98. bruise . crush in pieces, or utterly. Greek. suntribo . Elsewhere, Matthew 12:20 ; Mark 5:4 ; Mark 14:3 . Luke 4:18 ; Luke 9:39 ; John 1...
Romans 16:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

20. What follows, God shall bruise Satan, etc., is a promise to confirm them, rather than a prayer. He indeed exhorts them to fight manfully against Satan, and promises that they should short...
Romans 16:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1927 PRACTICAL WISDOM RECOMMENDED Romans 16:19-20 . I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet...
Romans 16:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. The God of peace - Who neither sends nor favors such disturbers of the tranqui...
Romans 16:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Shall bruise Satan, &c.— Satan is here put for his instruments;— the troublers of the church's peace. See 2 Corinthians 11:15 . "God shall break the force and attempts of Satan upon your pe...
Romans 16:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The apo...
Romans 16:20 - 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 16:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(17-20) Here the Epistle would naturally end, but an afterthought occurs to the Apostle, His experience of other churches, especially those at Corinth and in Galatia, suggests to him that he should w...
Romans 16:20 - 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 16:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Receive Helpers: Shun Hinderers Romans 16:17-27 Those who cause divisions on obscure points of doctrine are to be avoided, lest they lead us away from the fundamentals. We need to be wise in he...
Romans 16:20 - 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 16:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. (18) For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ,...
Romans 16:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the God of peace ,.... Romans 15:33 ; shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly . Some read this by way of wish or prayer, "may the God of peace bruise"; so the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Et...
Romans 16:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. Ver. 20. Shall bruise Satan ] Sincerity of a little grace shall be rewarde...
Romans 16:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For , &c. As if he had said, This exhortation I give you, to preserve you in the way in which hitherto you have walked, to the credit of the gospel: for your ready obedience and conformity t...
Romans 16:20 - 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 16:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Apostolic Salutations. A. D. 58. 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divis...
Romans 16:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And, &c.: q.d. And to encourage you to be watchful, I dare promise you shall be successful. The God of peace; so he is called, Romans 15:33 . Shall bruise Satan under your feet: the wor...
Romans 16:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

4). Final Greetings (16:1-27). We now come to the close of the letter. This final chapter divides up into three subsections: 1) Final greetings and exhortations ( Romans 16:1-16 ). 2) Exhortat...
Romans 16:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Romans 16:20 .—Here is St. Paul’s own superscription, written with his own hand in all his epistles. The Author of peace is the Giver of victory. συντρίψει, selected with special r...
Romans 16:20 - 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 16:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions. A caution against schismatics I. Their character described. They-- 1. Cause divisions. 2. Occasion offences. 3. Pervert do...
Romans 16:20 - 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 16:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A warning against false teachers:
Romans 16:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 16:2 ; 1 John 3:8 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:28 ; 2 Corinthians 13:14 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:18 ; 2 Timothy 4:22 ; Galatians 6:18 ; Genesis 3:15 ; Hebrews 2:14 ; Hebrews 2:15 ; Isaiah...
Romans 16:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And the God of peace — The Author and Lover of it, giving a blessing to your discretion. Shall bruise Satan under your feet — Shall defeat all the artifices of that sower of tares, and unite you mo...

Romans 16:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Romans 16:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Romans 16:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 16:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Romans 16:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 16:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Romans 16:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Romans 16:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Romans 16:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Romans 16:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 16:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Romans 16:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Romans 16:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Romans 16:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Romans 16:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Romans 16:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Romans 16:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Romans 16:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 16:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 16:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Romans 16:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Romans 16:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 16:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Romans 16:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 16:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Romans 16:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Romans 16:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Romans 16:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 16:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes