Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 12:10
In honour preferring one another — Which you will do, if you habitually consider what is good in others, and what is evil in yourselves.
In honour preferring one another — Which you will do, if you habitually consider what is good in others, and what is evil in yourselves.
Verse Romans 12:10. _BE KINDLY AFFECTIONED ONE TO ANOTHER WITH BROTHERLY_ _LOVE_] It is difficult to give a simple translation of the original: τῃ φιλαδελφιᾳ εις αλληλους φιλοστοργοι. The word φιλα...
BE KINDLY AFFECTIONED - The word used here occurs no where else in the New Testament. It properly denotes tender affection, such as what subsists between parents and children; and it means that Christ...
III. EXHORTATIONS AND THE CONCLUSION. Chapter s 12-16. CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The Body as a Willing Sacrifice. (Romans 12:1 .)_ 2. Service. (Romans 12:3 .) 3. The Daily Walk in Holiness. (Romans 12:9 .)...
IN THE CHRISTIAN TEMPER, _modesty_ is the first desideratum. Romans 12:3. I tell everyone that is among you not _to_ be high-minded above a right mind, but to be of a mind to be sober-minded (Sp.). Th...
THE TRUE WORSHIP AND THE ESSENTIAL CHANGE (Romans 12:1-2)...
Your love must be completely sincere. Hate that which is evil and cling to that which is good. Be affectionate to one another in brotherly love. Give to each other priority in honour. Do not be sluggi...
KINDLY AFFECTIONED. Greek. _philostorgos._ Only here. Used of the affectionate regard of members of. family. BROTHERLY LOVE. love for the brethren. Greek. _Philadelphia._ Compare 1 Peter 1:22. IN HO...
_Be kindly_, &c. Lit. IN POINT OF YOUR BROTHERLY LOVE [BE] AFFECTIONATE TO ONE ANOTHER. The word rendered "_kindly-affectioned_" has special reference to _family_affection; and probably our Translator...
F. 12–15:13. THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL SEEN IN ITS EFFECT UPON BOTH THE COMMON AND THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE OF CHRISTIANS. In this section S. Paul deals with the consequences of the principles he has worked...
ΤΗ͂Ι ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΊΑΙ. Cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:9; 1 Peter 1:22 (in LXX[245] only in 4 Macc.). A recognised duty, therefore liable to formalities; this must be provided against by an eager feeling of affectio...
10–21. Note the remarkable coordination of participles, adjectives, infinitives (15), and imperatives. All should be translated by the imperative; cf. Moulton, pp. 180 f., 222; cf. 1 Peter 2:18; 1 Pet...
ΦΙΛΌΣΤΟΡΓΟΣ (G5360) истинно любящий, нежно преданный, полный заботы (TLNT; TDNT). Речь идет о нежных отношениях между людьми, которые испытывают естественную привязанность друг Другу, подобную материн...
DISCOURSE: 1908 CHRISTIAN DUTIES TO GOD AND MAN EXPLAINED Romans 12:9. _Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour pre...
BE KINDLY AFFECTIONED, &C.— Perhaps the extremely expressive words of the original might justly be rendered, _Delight in the tenderest fraternal affection to each other._ The word Φιλοστοργοι, not onl...
_TEXT_ Romans 12:3-16. For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly,...
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; BE ... - better, 'In brotherly love be affectionate one to another; in [giving or showing] honour outdoi...
__ Conciliation-National 22 Nothing shows the blindness of Christendom more than their severe denunciation of faithless Israel, yet they are following precisely the same course and have not the slig...
12:10 it (a-19) 'Taking the lead in paying it' is a paraphrase, but I know not how to present the sense more briefly....
PARAPHRASE. '(1) God's redeeming love should be answered by the true sacrifice and spiritual ritual service of a life of purity and self-denial and work for God. (2) Do not follow the fashions and cus...
RV 'In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another.'...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 12 TRUE *WORSHIP 12:1-2 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, God has shown you his kindness. Therefore I am appealing to you. Of...
(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....
WITH BROTHERLY LOVE. — Better translated as in the margin, _In love of the brethren_ (fellow Christians) _be kindly affectioned._ The word for “kindly affectioned” is specially used of the family rela...
CHAPTER 26 CHRISTIAN DUTY: DETAILS OF PERSONAL CONDUCT Romans 12:8 ST. PAUL has set before us the life of surrender, of the "giving over" of faculty to God, in one great preliminary aspect. The fair...
τῇ φιλαδελφίᾳ = in point of brotherly love, _i.e._, your love to each other as children in the one family of God. _Cf._ 1 Thessalonians 4:9; Hebrews 13:9; 1 Peter 1:22;...
As far as any single idea pervades the rest of the chapter it is that of the first words in Romans 12:9 : ἡ ἀγάπη ἀνυπόκριτος. The passage as a whole has a strong affinity to 1 Corinthians 13, and alo...
LIVING AS A CHRISTIAN Romans 12:9 In this section the Apostle shows how the great principle of consecration must affect the details of conduct. It is most necessary to insist on these practical issue...
The word "therefore" links all that is now to be said with everything that has gone before. Because of the grace of God, the believer is called to certain attitudes and actions. The very first of thes...
TWENTY-FIFTH PASSAGE (12:3-21). THE LIFE OF THE BELIEVER AS A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH. The notion of consecration is still the prevailing one in this passage. This consecration is realized in life: 1st,...
“ _Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good. As to brotherly love, being full of tenderness one toward another; as to honor, each making others to pass...
The χαρίσματα, _gifts_, are different, as we have just seen. But there is a gift which is at the root of all the rest, and which ought to be common to all believers, that of all those who have no othe...
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; (7) Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he t...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
10._With brotherly love, etc. _By no words could he satisfy himself in setting forth the ardor of that love, with which we ought to embrace one another: for he calls it _brotherly, _and its emotion στ...
The apostle resumes the thread of his instructions, by taking up as he does in all his epistles the moral consequences of his doctrine. He places the believer at the outset on the ground of God's merc...
BE KINDLY AFFECTIONED ONE TO ANOTHER WITH BROTHERLY LOVE,.... This is one branch of that love, before advised to, which should be unfeigned, and without guile and deceit. The objects of this grace are...
_Be_ kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Ver. 10. _Be kindly affectioned_] As natural brethren and more. _Arctior eat copula cordis quam corporis....
Having spoken of faith and its fruits, Romans 12:3, he comes now to speak of love. _Let love be without dissimulation_ Not in pretence, but in reality; not _in word and tongue only_, but in deed and i...
IN HONOR PREFERRING ONE ANOTHER; rather, going before, or setting an example to one another in courtesy, kindness, and respect....
The Christian's conduct in his personal relations:...
BE KINDLY AFFECTIONED ONE TO ANOTHER WITH BROTHERLY LOVE, IN HONOR PREFERRING ONE ANOTHER;...
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...
Love (agape) should be Without dissimulation - hypocrisy, no pretense, not false love Abhor evil - (pornos) bad, malicious, wicked, badness in quality or character Cleave to that which is good - be...
WITH BROTHERLY LOVE: Or, in the love of the brethren...
__ Romans 12:10 In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another; 'love of the brethren' -'Anyone who would follow the Christ must become. lover of his...
9-16 The professed love of Christians to each other should be sincere, free from deceit, and unmeaning and deceitful compliments. Depending on Divine grace, they must detest and dread all evil, and l...
BE KINDLY AFFECTIONED ONE TO ANOTHER; Christians ought to have such affection one to another, as parents have to their children, and as all creatures have to their young: so much the word here used im...
In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another ["tenderly affectioned" is a word compounded of philos, loving, and stergos, which is from stergeoo, to...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V : "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love."[681] Acts of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul I have fulfilled the word of peace. For I have taught t...
Romans 12:10 affectionate G5387 another G1519 G240 love G5360 honor G5092 preference G4285 (G5740) another G240...
LOVE EXPRESSING ITSELF IN THE FAMILY OF BELIEVERS (12:10-13). While the injunctions that follow in Romans 12:10 are not necessarily to be limited to benefiting the family, it is clear that love for ou...
1). CHRISTIAN LIVING (12:1-13:14). In this passage Paul calls on God's people so to present their bodies as a living offering to God, through their having died with Christ and risen with Him (Romans 6...
‘In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another, in honour preferring one another,' With regard to love of our fellow-Christians it is to be a love of ‘tender affection'. This is a wor...
A CALL TO MAKE REAL IN THE CHURCH AND IN THE WORLD THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH THEY HAVE RECEIVED (12:1-15:33). This section moves from the indicative to the imperative. Having outlined the ways of God i...
A CALL TO FULFIL THE LAW OF CHRIST AND OF THE SCRIPTURES. THE WORKING OUT OF LOVE (12:9-21). Having dealt with what was necessary for the edifying and upbuilding of the body of Christ, Paul now turns...
2. _Exhortation for all Christians_, _in their Personal Relations_, _from Love of the Brethren to returning Good for Evil._ All the precepts of this section are based upon Christian love (Romans 12:9)...
Romans 12:10. IN BROTHERLY LOVE, lit, ‘the brotherly love,' implying as before that this is already possessed. ‘In' is properly supplied, but the exact sense is ‘with respect to.' The E. V. inverts th...
IN LOVE OF THE BRETHREN (τη φιλαδελφια). Late word for brotherly love for which see 1 Thessalonians 4:9.TENDERLY AFFECTIONED (φιλοστοργο). Old compound adjective from φιλος and στοργη (mutual lov...
Romans 12:1. _I beseech you therefore, brethren,_ Paul is a calm reasoner. He is a bold starer of truth, but here he comes to pleading with us. I think that I see him lift the pen from the paper and...
CONTENTS: Christian life and service. Consecration to Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: Since we have been justified through grace, by faith in Christ, it is our first duty to surren...
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...
LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Being "one in Christ" is not _make-believe!_ A _real_ love and kindness welds us together and makes us honor each other. John 13:35....
_Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love._ DUTIES OF CHRISTIANS TO EACH OTHER 1. All men ought to love each other as men because brethren by Adam. The world is one common family, sp...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 12:1 God’s Righteousness in Everyday Life. The gift of God’s saving righteousness leads to a new life. Paul explains some practical results of God’s saving mercy....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 12:5.—We are knit together in Christ, as the head in the organic life. Romans 12:6.—Prophesying is both foretelling and forthtelling. Hence preaching and expounding make the p...
EXPOSITION VER. 1–CH. 14:23 III. HORTATORY. It is St. Paul's way to supplement his doctrinal treatises with detailed practical directions as to the conduct that should of necessity ensue on belief in...
I 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...
1 John 2:9; 1 John 3:10; 1 John 4:11; 1 John 4:20; 1 John 4:21;...
Be kindly affectioned [φ ι λ ο σ τ ο ρ γ ο ι]. Only here in the New Testament. From stergw to love, which denotes peculiarly a natural affection, a sentiment innate and peculiar to men as men, as dist...
GOD'S CALL TO CONSECRATION Romans 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Permit me to enlarge upon the expression, "THEREFORE." Our chapter opens thus: "I beseech you THEREFORE, brethren, by the mercies of God....