Romans 12:11

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 12:11

Romans 12:11 The Results of Slothfulness. I. We frequently meet people who, on extraordinary occasions, or stimulated by some special inspiration, will exert much diligence and take great pains to produce something excellent and commendable, but who at all other times are slatternly and indolent, caring nothing, so long as a duty be performed, how slovenly may be the performance. It is against such a temper as this that our text directs its emphasis. You are not to be slothful in business in... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 12:9-12

DISCOURSE: 1908CHRISTIAN DUTIES TO GOD AND MAN EXPLAINEDRomans 12:9-12. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.THAT men, who wallow in all manner of uncleanness, should not like to hear the precepts of religion, is easy to be accounted for: but that... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 12:1-21

Chapter 12I beseech you therefore, brethren ( Romans 12:1 ),Because God has grafted you in, because you are partaking of the fullness of that good tree. I beseech thee, because of these things,that ye present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service ( Romans 12:1 ).God does not and has not made demands upon us. The gospel is reasonable. God said, "Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord" ( Isaiah 1:18 ).Now, of course, existential... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 12:1-21

Romans 12:1 . I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God. Under the form of entreaty he now tenderly exhorts them, in return for all the glory of redeeming love, to present their bodies to God, in chastity and in temperance, as temples of the Most High. Herodotus, the Greek priest, confesses that in the festival of Venus, the better sort of folks presented themselves to pay their respects to the goddess, while the lower sort indulged in crimes that cannot be named. Romans... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 12:11

Romans 12:11Not slothful in business.I. We have all business to do.I. In our particular calling and station in the world (1 Thessalonians 4:11).2. In our general calling (Philippians 2:12).(1) Repentance (Luke 13:3).(2) Faith (Acts 16:30-31).(3) To get our sins pardoned.(4) And so God reconciled.(5) And our souls in a capacity for heaven (Hebrews 12:14).II. How are we not to be slothful in business?1. Not to live as if we had nothing to do.2. Not to be slothful in doing what we do (Ecclesiastes... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 12:11

11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; Ver. 11. Not slothful ] Or, not driving off till it be too late ( ακνηρος , cunctator the delayer). Charles, the son of Charles Duke of Anjou, who was king of Sicily and Jerusalem, was called Carolus Cunctator, not in the sense as Fabius, because he stayed till opportunity came, but because he stayed till opportunity was lost. Fervent in spirit ] Gr. ζεοντες , seething hot. God, who is himself a pure act, loveth activeness... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Romans 12:11

slothful: Exodus 5:17, Proverbs 6:6-1 Samuel :, Proverbs 10:26, Proverbs 13:4, Proverbs 18:9, Proverbs 22:29, Proverbs 24:30-Nahum :, Proverbs 26:13-Nehemiah :, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Isaiah 56:10, Matthew 25:26, Acts 20:34, Acts 20:35, Ephesians 4:28, 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 1 Thessalonians 4:12, 2 Thessalonians 3:6-2 Kings :, 1 Timothy 5:13, Hebrews 6:10, Hebrews 6:11 fervent: Matthew 24:12, Acts 18:25, Colossians 4:12, Colossians 4:13, James 5:16, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 4:8, Revelation 2:4,... read more

John Wesley

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 12:11

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 12:9-12

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 12:1-21

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 12:1-21

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 12:11

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 12:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Romans 12:11

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 12:11

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:9-16

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:11

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