Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 12:9-21
(9-21) Now follow to the end of the chapter a number of general exhortations, not addressed to particular persons or classes, but to the Church at large. read more
Romans-12:9
Charles John Ellicott
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 12:1-21
The Living Sacrifice Romans 12:1 I. The Sacrifice God Requires. 'That ye present your bodies.' Our bodies, that is, the life of our bodies; for if we give our bodies as an offering, we give all that belongs to the body. The sacrifice God requires is that of the life. He demands a life devoted to Him. (a) The life may be given to business, but this must be given to Him, and so the employment of our hands and minds made holy. (b) The life may be given to science, but it must not be a... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 12:8-21
Chapter 26CHRISTIAN DUTY: DETAILS OF PERSONAL CONDUCTRomans 12:8-21ST. PAUL has set before us the life of surrender, of the "giving over" of faculty to God, in one great preliminary aspect. The fair ideal (meant always for a watchful and hopeful realisation) has been held aloft. It is a life whose motive is the Lord’s "compassions"; whose law of freedom is His will; whose inmost aim is, without envy or interference towards our fellow servants, to "finish the work He hath given us to do." Now... read more
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 12:1-21
III. EXHORTATIONS AND THE CONCLUSION. Chapters 12-16. CHAPTER 12 1. The Body as a Willing Sacrifice. (Romans 12:1-2 .) 2. Service. (Romans 12:3-8 .) 3. The Daily Walk in Holiness. (Romans 12:9-21 .) Romans 12:1-2 . Grace calls for obedience. After God has made known the riches of His grace, the fulness of the Gospel, His Spirit shows how believers should walk in a world of sin and tribulation. The first thing is to present the body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God. This... read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Romans 12:9
12:9 {6} [Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.(6) Now he comes to the duties of the second table of the ten commandments, which he derives from charity, which is as it were the fountain of them all. And he defines Christian charity as sincerity, hatred of evil, earnest study of good things, good affection to help our neighbour, and whose final goal is the glory of God. read more
L.M. Grant
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:1-21
Practical Response in Believers Now Paul has completed his treatment of the subject of God's counsel in reference to salvation - counsel accomplished by a hand of mercy. What then is to be the proper effect of these upon His saints? The last five chapters give us the conduct that mercy, rightly valued, produces. Thus it is in its true place - coming after salvation, not before. It is unspeakably blessed to mark how this is introduced. The peremptory demand of law - "Thou shalt" - has no... read more
James Gray
James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Romans 12:1-21
PRACTICAL APPLICATION In chapter 6 Paul revealed the secret of experimental sanctification as the yielding of one’s self unto God, in which case sin would not have dominion over one In chapter 8 he showed the divine process of sanctification as the work of the Holy Spirit in the believer. Having finished the doctrinal part of his epistle, he returns to what he then said (chap. 6), and exhorts us to yield because of the “mercies of God” of which he had been speaking throughout (Romans 12:1-2... read more
Joseph Parker
The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Romans 12:1-21
The Christian Ideal Romans 12:0 Anew section of the Epistle would seem to open with the twelfth chapter. The eleventh chapter concludes with "Amen": but Amen was not necessarily a final word with the Apostle Paul. He had his own way of writing. He began again after he was supposed to have finished; always another idea occurred to him; evermore there was a light beyond on which he must dwell if only for a moment, and scarcely had he indicated that beam than there dawned upon that ardent mind... read more
Joseph Parker
The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Romans 12:9-21
Rom 12:9-21 9 Let love be without dissimulation ["Let love be unfeigned." Comp. 2 Corinthians 6:6 ; 1Pe 1:22 ]. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. 10. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love ["In brotherly-love be affectionate one to another." The Speakers Commentary points out that the emphatic order of the Greek is lost in the A.V.]; in honour preferring one another: 11. Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; 12. Rejoicing in... read more
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 12:9
(9) Without dissimulation.—The same Greek word is translated “unfeigned” in 2 Corinthians 6:6; 1 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 1:5, and “without hypocrisy” in James 3:17. This last is the most literal rendering, and brings out the resemblance to Matthew 23:13, et al.Abhor that which is evil.—This clause seems linked on to the last through the word “without hypocrisy”: “Let your love arise from genuine and deep emotion; let the basis of your character be an intense hatred of evil and as strong an... read more