There is a disposition continually to imagine that what is frequently spoken of must be understood; but experience will soon show that this is not the case. Turn to Mark 15:21. I want you to welcome her in the Lord in the way that God's people should welcome one another; and I want you to help her in whatever way she needs your help, for she has been a helper to many, and to me, too. Romans 16:17 "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter Romans 16:17 Context Paul tells us in Second Thessalonians that this was his custom (2 . A snare, stumbling-block, cause for error. Now I beseech you, brethren, mark those which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them ( Romans 16:17 ). Along with this he gathers testimonies from more than one prophet. "I greet you in the Lord. We saw Paul's heart and mind are filled with love and joy as he goes over the list of believers in Rome whom he knows or of whom he has heard. Of these speculations we can never be sure, but we can be sure that there were many in Corinth, in Ephesus and in Rome, who owed their souls to Prisca and Aquila and to that home of theirs which was also a church. This is precisely what salvation does not mean; and I would strongly press it on all that hear me, more particularly on those that have to do with the work of the Lord, and . In the next chapter (Romans 10:1-21) he carries on the subject, showing in the most touching manner his affection for the people. Jason may be the Jason who gave Paul hospitality at Thessalonica and suffered for it at the hands of the mob ( Acts 17:5-9). "But unto Israel he saith, All day long have I stretched out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.". It is for the lost, therefore; for they it is who need salvation; and it is to save not merely to quicken, but to save; and this because in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed. What does Romans chapter 16 mean? is the double prophecy. In (Luke 11:35) (skopeo) is translated "take heed." Chapter 16Chapter 16 is just personal greetings to many of those in Rome. The whole work is done. This accordingly leads, as connected with the deliverance of the body, to the inheritance we are to possess. There is no simple mind that can evade the plain force of this last expression. Division, dissension, standing apart. 16 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: 2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also. There is considerable uncertainty among commentators as to why this vehement outburst occurs here just as Paul appears to be drawing the epistle to a close. Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them. To what Church, then, did Mark write his gospel? There is hardly any phraseology that tends to more injury of souls in these matters than a loose way of talking of salvation. To Stotoetis, chief priest at the island. It is an odd thing that in four out of the six mentions of this pair in the New Testament Prisca is named before her husband, although normally the husband's name would come first, as we say "Mr and Mrs." There is just the possibility that this is because Prisca was not a freedwoman at all but a great lady, a member by birth of the Acilian family. Even the saints there would have been all the better for the gospel. It is all there. This term (exapatao) is used in the LXX to describe the enticement of Samson (Judges 14:15; Judges 16:5). How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? This I ask in Jesus' name, AMEN. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. Is Romans 7:14-25 describing a believer or an unbeliever? There are always those that have some weird trip to lay on the body of Christ. Be it so then; it was a foolish nation by which Moses declared they should be angered. ], "If Paul had one particular group [of false teachers] in mind, we cannot be at all certain which it was. Give my greetings to Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and to his mother who was a mother to me too. Now that God has revealed Himself in the gospel, it is not what will suit man on earth, but what is worthy of the presence of the glory of God. C. H. Dodd, The Epistle of Paul to the Romans (MC; E), A. M. Hunter, The Epistle to the Romans: The Law of Love (Tch; E), W. Sanday and A.C. Headlam, Romans (Sixth edition, in two volumes, revised by C. E. B. Cranfield) (ICC; G), Now I beseech you -- From this ver. How (and Why) Do We Receive Power from the Holy Spirit? From didasko; instruction. (17) Cause divisions and offences.--Set traps in the way of the unwary, so as to entice them into false doctrine and schismatical practices. Victory comes from God more as the God of peace than as the God of war; for, in all our conflicts, peace is the thing we must contend for. The righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith (1:17a). In either case Paul made it clear that they were not servants of Christ. That is a good rule: be wise in things that are good, but be dumb in things that are evil. I will say, "No thanks, friend." God, therefore, having not the least hindrance to the manifestation of what He can be and is in merciful intervention on behalf of the worst of sinners, manifests it is His righteousness "by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe" (ver. It is not a question of creature-standing. 20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. 15), "because we are not under the law, but under grace?" Is this the other brother facing things out with Paul? And the blessedness of the gospel is, that it is (not merely an exercise of mercy, but also) divinely just. And as that little remnant is ever sustained by the grace of God, it is the standing pledge of their final blessedness through His mercy, whereon the apostle breaks out into raptures of thanksgiving to God. Not so, says the apostle; it is because of the evil of the nature, not of the law. But if it were so, He had not done with them. The soul is brought into peace with God, as it finds its standing in the grace of God, and, more than that, rejoices in hope of the glory of God. We have Paul informing us that he transfers sometimes in a figure to himself that which was in no wise necessarily his own experience, and perhaps had not been so at any time. Pauls description of the teachers is too general to enable us to identify who they were or what they were teaching. Let us not stumble at the starting-point, but leave room for the due extent and depth of "salvation" in the gospel. It is not God having an earthly centre, and the peoples doming up to worship the Lord in Jerusalem. The caution itself, which is given in the most obliging manner that could be: I beseech you, brethren. Judaizers fit the bill of those who "cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned." But besides this he adds "to faith." It is not yet executed. As he brings his long and instructive Roman epistle to a close, the one message Paulwas prompted to leave with these dear people was about discord among the saints, "keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned," he warned, "and turn away from them.". Romans 16:17. (ver. Probably they have not, but we cannot speak with any certainty. But what is testified by Christian baptism is Christ's death. To whom, then, did the law address itself? There are things in there that I have not yet experienced. God was rather provoking Israel to jealousy by the call of the Gentiles. All rights reserved. Because of the promise of God, that we shall have victory at last, which is given to quicken and encourage, not to supersede, our watchful cares and vigorous endeavours. A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. This would not have been just. Well delivered speeches and fawning over those who heard the material was convincing to at least some because the words or presentations were pretty (Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, 2:2). Now we start into Corinthians, and it is an exciting book, because the Corinthian church was such a mess. The law never delivers; it condemns and kills us. (2.) - NIVZSB. It contains four sections: his greetings to specific people in Rome, a quick and urgent warning about the danger of false teachers, greetings from those who are with him in Corinth, and a final hymn of praise to God called a doxology. The believer, therefore, unwittingly though really, dishonours the Saviour, if he be content to walk short of this standard and power; he is entitled and called to walk according to his place, and in the confidence of his deliverance in Christ Jesus before God. Be ye therefore wise as serpents (Matthew 10:16), wise to discern that which is really good and that which is counterfeit; wise to distinguish things that differ, to improve opportunities. "Shall we sin," says he, proceeding yet farther (ver. The devil and his agents have a particular spite against flourishing churches and flourishing souls. The meaning is not what was executed on Christ, but what is in virtue. But divisions and offenses "contrary to the doctrine" one has already learned (either through this epistle or from some other inspired writing or man) are not to be tolerated. What Does Romans 16:17 Mean? How many are there who call Christ Master and Lord, that are far from serving him! The legal institutions were associated with temporal judgment. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets" (verses 20, 21). And offences - Scandals; or that give occasion for others to fall into sin. What, then, is its voice? "Well," said the man with a certain evil relish. New Living Translation Let people make peace their prime object; resolve to love all who are Christians, and it will be an infallible guage by which to measure the arguments of those who seek to promote alienations and contentions. Hence the very fact of being renewed makes one sensible of a far more intense misery than ever, while there is no power until the soul looks right outside self to Him who is dead and risen, who has anticipated the difficulty, and alone gives the full answer to all wants. Almost certainly here we find Rufus again, the son of that Simon who carried the Cross of Jesus. I confine myself to its doctrinal import, and the full Christian sense of the word; and I maintain that salvation signifies that deliverance for the believer which is the full consequence of the mighty work of Christ, apprehended not, of course, necessarily according to all its depth in God's eyes, but at any rate applied to the soul in the power of the Holy Ghost. And some of those male chauvinists seem to have a little difficulty with this that she was there as a servant in the church. For the first and only time, we know the name of the amanuensis who actually penned this letter to Paul's dictation, for Tertius slipped in his own greeting. Then your principle is your condemnation. So we find the Corinthian epistle extremely interesting epistle as he deals with the various issues that had cropped up, the various practices that had cropped up in Corinth and as he seeks to correct these abuses. Thus by good words and fair speeches the serpent beguiled Eve. Do not look only at the divisions and offences, but run up those streams to the fountain, and mark those that cause them, and especially that in them which causes these divisions and offences, those lusts on each side whence come these wars and fightings. They began in Rome. In verse 19 Paul assured these Christians that he had confidence in their spiritual maturity. They also needed to free themselves from the troublemakers and false teachers in their midst. Narcissus was a common name; but the most famous Narcissus was a freedman who had been secretary to the Emperor Claudius and had exercised a notorious influence over him. But there is more than this in Romans 4:1-25 He takes up a third feature of Abraham's case; that is, the connection of the promise with resurrection. It is indeed an impious and sacrilegious attempt to divide those who agree in the truth of Christ: but yet it is a shameful sophistry to defend, under the pretext of peace and unity, a union in lies and impious doctrines. At the same time the apostle does allude to that mystery which was not yet divulged at least, in this epistle; but he points from the foundations of eternal truth to those heavenly heights that were reserved for other communications in due time. Part of his reminder involved being simple unto that which was evil. Those at Rome were to avoid the ways of the world. Now the doctrine which we saw asserted in the latter part ofRomans 5:1-21; Romans 5:1-21 is applied to both. There would be no remnant if justice took its course. By the cross God has a deeper moral glory than ever a glory that He thus acquired, if I may so say. The bearing of this on the contents and main doctrine of the epistle will appear abundantly by-and-by. But this is not all; and the objection of the Jew gives occasion for the apostle to bring out a fuller display of what God is. This would be interesting too to find out who was right in the interpreting of this woman.So then Paul sends his greetings to these others, names that were meaningful, no doubt, in the church in Rome, but really don't mean anything to us. Isaiah says: "I was found of them who sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me." Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Such is the doctrine and the fact. Two of the most distinguished people in the city were condemned for being Christians. "The man has not got anything like settled peace with God; perhaps he hardly knows his sins forgiven; but at least he is a saved soul." Also, sometimes it is the truth itself that becomes a stumbling block when people refuse to accept it (Romans 9:32-33; Luke 7:23). 2 234). While it has a good sense in Philippians 3:17, here it means to fix ones eyes upon, direct ones attention to (Thayer, p. 579). But there is much more in Christ than that to which too many souls restrict themselves, not less to their own loss than to His dishonour. He can meet the sinner, but He justifies the believer; and in this, instead of trenching on His glory, there is a deeper revelation and maintenance of it than if there never had been sin or a sinner. The weak are not to judge the strong, and the strong are not to despise the weak. So something that perhaps you have never considered that there is a possibility that there were women apostles as well as men. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. Not only was Abraham justified without law, but apart from that great sign of mortification of the flesh. Birthright from the same father would let in Ishmael on the one hand, as from both parents it would secure the title of Esau on the other. The church is to withdraw fellowship from them. The men he would have taken notice of were such who divided them in their religious sentiments, introducing heterodox notions, contrary to the doctrine of the Scriptures, of Christ and his apostles, and which they had learned from them; such as justification by the works of the law, the observance . The very first incident related of them is characteristic. In (Luke 11:35) (skopeo) is translated "take heed." To this day in Rome there is a Church of St Prisca on the Aventine. If the first book in the Bible showed that it was only the call of God that made Israel what they were, its second book as clearly proved that all was over with the called people, had it not been for the mercy of God. Romans 12:1-21 looks at the mutual duties of the saints. He at the same time unfolds the essential difference between the righteousness of faith and that of law. He quotes also from Isaiah "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." "But if [for so it should be read] thou art named a Jew," etc. Far from denying or obscuring what they boasted of, he goes beyond them "Who are Israelites," says he, "to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all God blessed for ever." The consequences are thus pursued; first, the general place of the believer now, in all respects, in relation to the past, the present, and the future. In the same way the apostle disposes of all pretence on the score of ordinances, especially circumcision. The men he would have taken notice of were such who divided them in their religious sentiments, introducing heterodox notions, contrary to the doctrine of the Scriptures, of Christ and his apostles, and which they had learned from them; such as justification by the works of the law, the observance of Jewish days, and abstinence from meats, enjoined by the ceremonial law, and that as necessary to salvation; to which some gave heed, and others not, and so were divided; whereas the doctrine of faith is but one, the Gospel is one uniform thing, all of a piece; and those that profess it ought to be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment: hence their minds were alienated from each other, and they began to despise and judge one another, yea, to go into factions and parties, being unwilling to receive and admit each other to communion; and thus by these men they were divided in sentiments, affection, and worship; and which must needs cause offence to the church and the godly members of it, as well as cause many so to be offended, as to stumble and fall from the doctrine of faith, and profession of it, and greatly stagger and distress weak believers, and bring a scandal on religion, and the name and ways of Christ among the world, as nothing does more so than the jars and discords among Christians: wherefore the apostle advises to "mark" such persons, look out for, narrowly watch, strictly observe, and diligently examine them: the metaphor is taken from watchmen, who look out from their watch tower, and observe who are coming, or pass by, and take up suspicious persons, and carefully inquire who they are, and what they are about, and whether friends or foes. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. He would not therefore have them ignorant how they had lain on his heart for a visit (ver. 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: , 2 Thessalonians 3:6,14 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. If slurred over, as it too often is in souls, it invariably leaves practical obedience lame, and halt, and blind. If you will remember when Paul was with them in Corinth, they had come from Rome because of Claudius' persecution of the Jews. instructive and interesting manner the links that grace practically forms and maintains between the saints of God. But more than this "Whosoever shall call." "Righteousness" never means mercy, not even the "righteousness of God." It is not so alone; but in His death, unto which I am baptized, I am dead to sin. Were it merely Romans 3:1-31 there could not be full peace with God as there is. Instead of denying themselves in the use of meats for the sake of Christ, and for the peace of his Church, they preferred to gratify their own appetites. We must note that the peace of God is the peace of action and of victory. And where? The believer is not put under law, you will observe, but under grace, which is the precise reverse of law. Mark them - Observe attentively, cautiously, and faithfully Philippians 3:17; be on your guard against them. and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Jesus died to give us the gospel; and now he is counting on us to transmit it to all men. It is God who now makes known a righteousness to man, instead of looking for any from man. "Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ" an apostle "called," not born, still less as educated or appointed of man, but an apostle "called," as he says "separated unto the gospel of God, which he had promised afore by his prophets." The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. And being led away by their lust, they covered their real motive by kindly or plausibly addressing () and eulogizing () those who joined them, imitating in this respect the arts of all false professors and zealots, whatever be the false principle by which they may be guided. Sin was in the world between Adam and Moses, when the law was not. He finally got there.So the end of Paul's epistle to the Romans, fabulous book. He believed God and His word, with special approval on God's part; and his faith was counted as righteousness (ver. and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, has made known to all nations his glorious truth that they might obey through faith ( Romans 16:26 ): So the obedience of faith, God's grace is bestowed upon all nations. And this lies in the fact that Abraham believed God before he had the son, being fully persuaded that what He had promised He was able to perform. "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! In such a condition what has been found in Jesus is too often misused to make a kind of difference, so to speak, between the Saviour on the one hand, and God on the other ruinous always to the enjoyment of the full blessing of the gospel. Here the word means the understanding of what is ethically right in daily life (Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, 3:261). From the very beginning Prisca and Aquila were people who kept an open heart and an open door. Not thus does God deal with souls. When we have the opportunity to see how this truth has transformed you into the image of Christ, then we will be coming and saying, "Tell me brother. Let me refer in passing to a few points more in the introduction, in order to link them together with that which the Spirit was furnishing to the Roman saints, as well as to show the admirable perfectness of every word that inspiration has given us. Israel is indeed the only people of whom there is always a portion that believe. No wonder, if souls confound the two things together, that they never know deliverance in practice. There is no more fascinating pair of people in the New Testament than Prisca and Aquila. who would defraud God of that which He delights in the blessedness of bringing in deliverance by that One man, of whom Adam was the image? Acts 18:1-3,Acts 18:18-19,Acts 18:24-26). There are some that find a difficulty here, because the expression "to hold" means holding firmly. A soul may as truly, no doubt, be put into relationship with God be made very happy, it may be; but it is not what Scripture calls "peace with God." The Gospel is God's Power to Save (16a) B. In either case, Paul knew the great damage caused when conflict and strife is allowed to permeate the Christian Church. The Gospel Saves Everyone Who Believes (16b) II. The person jealous for what God has not commanded soon sets more store by his own ordinances than by those of God (Vol. Romans 16 is the final passage in Paul's long letter to the Christians in Rome. Avoid them. But for the time it is held fast, though in unrighteousness. A righteousness by the merit of works, or by perfect obedience to the law of nature, or of . Romans 16:17 - Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them. There never was an hour since Israel's existence as a nation that God has not had His remnant of them. Nevertheless the apostle does not expressly mention heaven here. Oh, fair speech is to be sure, clever, humorous, interesting, but the emphasis is wrong. 2. Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Jesus: who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles ( Romans 16:3-4 ). It was the Lord giving us the profit of sorrow, and ourselves bowing to the way and end of God in it, so that the result of tribulation should be rich and fruitful experience. to ver. This is to fall back on a principle he had already used. The gospel is God's power to save; that power which keeps a man erect, even when life is at its worst and its most threatening. They set up the golden calf, and thus cast off the true God, their God, even in the desert. He refers to circumstances already well-known in various Churches, and beginning to be felt at Rome. Matthew 24:24; Acts 20:27-32; Galatians 1:6-8; Ephesians 4:14). Their sins had been passed by. (verses 22-32.) But such thoughts altogether vanish now, because, as the Gentile was unquestionably wicked and abominable, so from the law's express denunciation the Jew was universally guilty before God. The appeal to their own inspired account of Abraham turned into a proof of the consistency of God's ways in justifying by faith, and hence in justifying the uncircumcised no less than the circumcision. Here is an instance of what is so reprehensible. What I need is a new experience. The soul therefore now is represented for the first time as already justified and in possession of peace with God. 3). For all this, as he presses further, there was the weightiest reason possible. The discovery is made that the source of the internal misery was that the mind, though renewed, was occupied with the law as a means of dealing with, flesh. True ministry gives out not merely truth, but suited truth to the saints. If he mean primarily those false doctrines and seducing spirits spoken of before, of which Satan was the prime founder and author, yet doubtless, it comprehends all the other designs and devices of Satan against souls, to defile, disturb, and destroy them, all his attempts to keep us from the purity of heaven, the peace of heaven here, and the possession of heaven hereafter. ". Nor am I interested in any extra scriptural experience. Was Rufus with him? Hence it is wholly apart from the law, whilst witnessed to by the law and prophets; for the law with its types had looked onward to this new kind of righteousness; and the prophets had borne their testimony that it was at hand, but not then come. We all know where it is and must be for the Christian. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 14:14-18 Christ deals gently with those who have true grace, though they are weak in it. Now I beseech you - One great object of this Epistle had been to promote peace between the Jewish and Gentile converts. Time was when none of the English, nor French, nor of any other nation believed in the Saviour. Lucius may be the Lucius of Cyrene, who was one of the prophets and teachers of Antioch who first sent Paul and Barnabas on their missionary journeys ( Acts 13:1). (ii) It is a gospel which Paul preached and which was offered by Jesus Christ. Paul declares that she was an apostle. Now there is another way to translate this as those who don't like that idea translate it the other way. Mark them which cause divisions Several MSS. Such a connection, however, seems unlikely for at least these five discernible reasons: 1. I do not believe that he should be spending a lot of money extravagantly on fancy clothes, fancy cars, fancy this or that. This was long before the days when there was any such thing as a church building; and the home of Prisca and Aquila served as a meeting place for a group of Christian folk. Any man who does anything which disturbs the peace of a church has much to answer for. Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began ( Romans 16:23-25 ). higher, if so high, in this epistle. He sends greetings to two additional households where groups of Christians met (14-16). 16:25-27 Now unto him who is able to make you stand firm, in the way that the gospel I preach promises and the message Jesus brought offers, in the way which is now unveiled in that secret, which was for long ages wrapped in silence, but which is now full disclosed, and made known to all the Gentiles--as the writings of the prophets said it would be. 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