Romans 2:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. ”

• Romans 2:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  In the day - This verse is doubtless to be connected with Romans 2:12 , and the intermediate verses are a parenthesis, and it implies that the pagan world, as well as the Jews, will be arraigned...

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• Romans 2:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (7) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to (m) my gospel. (7) God defers many judgments, which he will nonetheless execute at their convenient time by Jesus...

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• Romans 2:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Some one interjects: I do not approve, I condemn the sins you describe. Then you condemn yourself, Paul retorts, for you commit them! The Moralist under Condemnation, with the flagitious sinner....

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• Romans 2:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  shall . will. secrets . Greek. kruptos. Jesus Christ . App-98.

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• Romans 2:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  16. In which God shall judge the secrets of men (75) Most suitable to the present occasion is this periphrastic definition of judgment: it teaches those, who willfully hide themselves in th...

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• Romans 2:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. In the day when God shall judge - And all this shall be farther exemplified and proved in the day when God s...

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• Romans 2:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The secret of men— Not, we conceive, their secret bad actions, but, agreeably to the preceding discourse, their moral state and circumstances under different degrees of light; which are secrets n...

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• Romans 2:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. In the day when, [the received reading, hote ( G3753 ), is better than hee ( G3588 ), whic...

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• Romans 2:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Failure of the Jews In Romans 1 St. Paul showed that the Gentiles were under God's judgment on account of sin. Now he is about to turn to the Jews. He asserts first, that God's judgment will...

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• Romans 2:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  This verse takes up the main thread of the subject. “God will judge Jew and Gentile alike at the last day.” It cannot refer (as some would make it) to what immediately precedes, because there the Apo...

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• Romans 2:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 6 HUMAN GUILT UNIVERSAL: HE APPROACHES THE CONSCIENCE OF THE JEW Romans 2:1-17 WE have appealed, for affirmation of St. Paul's tremendous exposure of human sin, to a solemn and deliber...

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• Romans 2:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Searcher of All Hearts Romans 2:12-20 The Apostle goes on to show that all men, whether Jews or Gentiles, will be judged by the same standard. For the Jew that law was written upon the page...

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• Romans 2:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  It is evident that the apostle here turned to the Jew, though he did not immediately name him. He charged the Jew with the sin of practicing the very evils he condemned in the Gentiles. He is at leas...

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• Romans 2:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (13) (For not the hearers of the law just before God, but the d...

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• Romans 2:16 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE JUDGMENT ‘The day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.’ Romans 2:16 This verse should be joined to the tenth. That asserts an impartial judgme...

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• Romans 2:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  In the day when God shall judge ,.... These words are to be read in connection with Romans 2:13 , and express the time when both Jews and Gentiles will be judged, called a "day", both because of th...

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• Romans 2:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. Ver. 16. According to my gospel ] Which promiseth heaven to believers. This is comfort to those that are...

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• Romans 2:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  In the day , &c. This relates to Romans 2:12 , the intermediate verses, from the 13th, being a parenthesis; when God shall judge the secrets of men Not only their outward actions, good and ev...

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• Romans 2:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The Case of the Cultured Greek But there is a class of Gentiles who are quite keen in seeing these evils in others, and unhesitatingly judging them for them, while never considering that the same...

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• Romans 2:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Equity of the Divine Government. A. D. 58.       1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoev...

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• Romans 2:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  These words may be referred to Romans 2:12 , and so they express the time when Jews and Gentiles shall be judged. Though some annex them to the words immediately preceding: q.d. Now the conscience...

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• Romans 2:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Even Respectable Men, Judges, Philosophers, Rabbis and Jews Come Under God's Judgment As Sinners (2:1-16). Having demonstrated the sinfulness and inexcusability of the majority of mankind, Paul no...

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• Romans 2:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Romans 2:13 . Not the hearers of the law .—Jewish writers held that no circumcised person goes to hell. St. Paul confutes all vain opinions. The literal meaning of δικαιοῦν is to...

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• Romans 2:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Romans 2 The Practical Outcome of Judaism. I. The first thing on which St. Paul lays anxious stress in this passage is this: The judgment of God according to men's works is just, inevitable, and...

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• Romans 2:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Romans 2:1 . Therefore thou art inexcusable, oh man, whether Roman or Jew, who judgest another, and doest the same thing thyself, though it may be in some other way. But as the judgment of God is...

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• Romans 2:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. Man’s inexcusableness I. Because-- 1. He has a knowledge of his duty. 2. He was created with ability to perform it....

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• Romans 2:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Romans 2:1-45 ( b ) Those who judge others, not excepting the Jews. Here a new stage of the argument, in proof of the position propounded in Romans 1:18 , begins, and is conti...

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• Romans 2:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Necessity of Keeping the Law Properly. Not the hearing of the Law, but the doing of the Law has value:

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• Romans 2:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 4:5 ; 1 Peter 4:5 ; 1 Timothy 1:11 ; 2 Corinthians 5:10 ; 2 Peter 2:9 ; 2 Timothy 2:8 ; 2 Timothy 4:1 ; 2 Timothy 4:8 ; Acts 10:42 ; Acts 17:31 ; Ecclesiastes 11:9 ; Ecclesi...

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• Romans 2:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  In the day — That is, who show this in the day. Everything will then be shown to be what it really is. In that day will appear the law written in their hearts as it often does in the present life....

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