romans-4:25

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 4:1-25

God Has Provided A Way By Which Men Can Be Accounted As In The Right Before God (3:21-4:25). Paul has spent a considerable time, from Romans 1:18 onwards, in demonstrating that all are under sin (weighed down under it and condemned by it). And he has shown that this includes the common herd of idolaters (Romans 1:18-27); the generality of people (Romans 1:28-32); those who for one reason or another see themselves as above the norm (philosophers, judges, Rabbis, Jews - Romans 2:1-16); and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 4:13-25

3). Abraham Illustrates The Fact That God’s Greatest Gifts Do Not Come To Us Because We ‘Obey The Law’, But Because We ‘Believe In The Lord’ (4:13-25). The importance of faith in the life of Abraham is now brought out. For Paul here stresses that he lived a life of faith from the moment he began to believe, and continued to do so throughout his life, and he stresses that the promise to Abraham that he would be the heir of the world was made on that basis. Note that God’s promises are mentioned... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 4:25

‘Who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our being accounted as in the right (justification).’ For this was why Christ died. He was delivered up for our trespasses, for all the ways in which we come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23), and He was raised again so that we might be ‘accounted as in the right’ before Him. The referring of our ‘justification’ to the resurrection is unusual. It is normally connected with His death (Romans 3:24-25). But there is no difficulty... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 4:17-25

Romans 4:17 b – Romans 4:25 . Faith in God the Life-Giver. Romans 4:17 associates with the scope the quality of Abraham’ s faith. The patriarch’ s world-fatherhood was his “ in the sight of God whom he believed” : God acknowledged and made good that paternity—“ He who makes alive the dead and summons things non-existent as though in being!” Romans 4:18-Isaiah : . Abraham’ s trust in the power yoked to God’ s promise made his belief efficacious: “ against hope, he believed in hope” ;... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 4:25

Who was delivered; he saith delivered rather than crucified, to lead us by the hand to the first cause thereof, the determinate counsel of the blessed Trinity: see Acts 2:23; Acts 4:27,Acts 4:28; Romans 8:32. For our offences; i.e. for the expiating of them, Isaiah 53:10. And was raised again for our justification; not that his death had no hand in our justification; see Romans 3:24; but because our justification, which was begun in his death, was perfected in his resurrection. Christ did... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 4:18-25

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 4:18.—Against hope as man; but upon hope in God (Severian).Romans 4:19.—In this passage Abraham is represented as placed between two opposite forces—that of sight and that of faith. The look of faith fixed on the promises prevented every look cast on the external circumstances.Romans 4:24. If we believe on Him, etc—Implies purpose, certainty, and continuance.Romans 4:25.—Christians assured by Christ’s resurrection of the removal of their guilt. In the same way that the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 4:1-25

Romans 3:31 ; Romans 4:0 A Crucial Case. I. It was by his faith Abraham was justified, not by his works of obedience. Paul's proof of this is very simple. He finds a remarkable proof-text ready to his hand in Genesis 15:16 . On God's side there was simply a word announcing the promises of His grace; on the man's side simply a devout and childlike reliance upon that word. God asked no more; and the man had no more to give. His mere trust in God the Promiser was held to be adequate as a ground... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 4:25

Romans 4:25 These words are the answer to the question which would naturally arise from the perusal of the history of the death and passion of Jesus Christ. "He was delivered on account of our offences." Men's sins were the cause of the sufferings and death of the sinless Son of God. I. We read the history of those awful hours during which was transacted the mighty work of a world's redemption, and we are moved with indignation against the various actors in the melancholy scene. But, after all,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 4:20-25

DISCOURSE: 1839ABRAHAM’S FAITHRomans 4:20-25. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; who was delivered for our... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Romans 4:25

raised Christ died under our sins 1 Peter 2:24; 2 Corinthians 5:21 that He was raised and exalted to God's right hand, "now to appear in the presence of God for us" Hebrews 9:24 is the token that our sins are gone, that His work for us has the divine approbation and that we, for whom He suffered, are completely justified. read more