Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 12:5
So we — All believers. Are one body — Closely connected together in Christ, and consequently ought to be helpful to each other.
So we — All believers. Are one body — Closely connected together in Christ, and consequently ought to be helpful to each other.
Verse Romans 12:5. _SO WE, BEING MANY_] We who are members of the Church of Christ, which is considered the _body_ of which he is the _head_, have various offices assigned to us, according to the mea...
SO WE, BEING MANY - We who are Christians, and who are numerous as individuals. ARE ONE BODY - Are united together, constituting one society, or one people, mutually dependent, and having the same gre...
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)...
For, through the grace that has been given to me, I say to everyone among you, not to have a mind proud beyond that which a mind should be, but to have a mind directed towards wisdom, as God has given...
CHRIST. App-98. EVERY ONE. severally. Greek. _kath_. (App-104. x) _heis_....
_in Christ_ i.e. by virtue of our union with Him. See on Romans 8:1. Cp. also for the profound meaning of the phrase, 2 Corinthians 5:17. _and every one_ Perhaps better, in view of MSS. &c., BUT WITH...
ΟἹ ΠΟΛΛΟῚ Κ.Τ.Λ. We who are many, being in Christ, are one body; cf. Romans 8:1-10. The connexion of the individual with Christ, made in baptism, is a connexion of life, given by the presence of His l...
The connexion seems to lie in the emphasis just laid upon mind as the instrument of the formation of the new character. This leads to the charge to keep that mind in the attitude and quality proper to...
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...
ΟΊ ΠΟΛΛΟΊ. Семитское устойчивое выражение со _знач._ "все"; здесь: вся община верующих (Dunn), ΚΑΘ' ΕΊΣ (G3196; G1520) что касается каждого. Вторая идиома с предлогом должна восприниматься как наречи...
DISCOURSE: 1907 CHRISTIANS ARE ALL MEMBERS OF ONE BODY Romans 12:4. As we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every...
_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,...
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. SO WE, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST, AND EVERY ONE - [ ho (G3588) de (G1161) kath' (G2596) eis ...
__ 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...
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...
ONE BODY] cp. 1 Corinthians 12:12.; Ephesians 4:15.; Colossians 1:18....
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...
In the church there must be a graduation, a hierarchy, a division of labour, every one doing that for which he is best fitted, just as in the body one member has one office assigned to it, and another...
IN CHRIST. — Christ is the unifying principle in the Church, just as the personality or will is the unifying principle in man. EVERY ONE. — A somewhat peculiar phrase in the Greek, not found in this...
CHAPTER 25 CHRISTIAN CONDUCT THE ISSUE OF CHRISTIAN TRUTH Romans 12:1 AGAIN we may conjecture a pause, a long pause and deliberate, in the work of Paul and Tertius. We have reached the end, generall...
The duties of members of the Church as such: avoidance of self-exaltation, and mutual service in the measure of the gift bestowed on each. λέγω γάρ : the γὰρ indicates that “humility is the immediate...
DEVOTING SELF AND USING GIFTS Romans 12:1 _ Therefore_ links this practical appeal to the whole of the sublime argument, which reaches its climax in the previous chapter. It is easier to die once for...
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...
“ _For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office; so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another._ ” The organization of the huma...
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,...
The natural tendency of man is to exalt himself. Here is the first point at which the will of God, discerned by the renewed mind of the believer, impresses on his conduct a completely opposite charact...
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (2) And be not conformed to this...
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...
_UNITY_ ‘For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.’ Romans 12:4 It is one o...
_‘MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER’_ ‘So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.’ Romans 12:5 There are some moral and spiritual truths which it seems to be almost impos...
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...
SO WE BEING MANY ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST,.... This is the application of the above simile. The chosen of God, the redeemed of Christ, and those that are justified by his righteousness, and sanctified b...
So we, _being_ many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Ver. 5. _One body in Christ_] _See Trapp on "_ 1Co 12:12 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ 1Co 12:13 _"_ And every one members]...
_For as we have many members_ The apostle proceeds to illustrate his advice by a comparison taken from the members of the human body. _All members have not the same office_ But different members are a...
WE; Christians. ONE BODY IN CHRIST; he is the head, and we are the members of his one body. The perfection of each member and of the whole body of Christ, depends, not upon all being alike, or doing...
SO WE, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST, AND EVERY ONE MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER....
The proper use of God's gifts of mercy:...
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...
Many members - segments, parts, organs, structures, components, elements We are still one body - not many bodies Office = function, job, objective, purpose, use to the body, role, duty 5 We = the c...
SO WE, WHO ARE MANY, ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST, AND SEVERALLY MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER. 'Severally' -'Individually' (NASV) Points to Note: 1. 'A further safeguard against pride is found in the fact tha...
3-8 Pride is a sin in us by nature; we need to be cautioned and armed against it. All the saints make up one body in Christ, who is the Head of the body, and the common Centre of their unity. In the...
SEE POOLE ON "RO 1 2: 4 ...
so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another. [As God gives to each member of the human body its several function for the good of the whole body, so he distributed...
1 Clement Why do we divide and tear in pieces the members of Christ, and raise up strife against our own body, and have reached such a height of madness as to forget that "we are members one of anoth...
Romans 12:5 so G3779 we G2070 many G4183 are G2070 (G5748) one G1520 body G4983 in G1722 Christ...
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...
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...
EACH MEMBER IS TO PLAY HIS APPROPRIATE PART IN BUILDING UP CHRIST'S BODY (12:3-8). In Romans 11:16 God was seen as ministering to His people in establishing and building up the olive tree which repres...
‘For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.' There is a clear resemb...
1. _Practical Theme; Duties according to special Gifts._ The theme is fully stated in Romans 12:1-2; then follows an exhortation to humility (Romans 12:3-5), which introduces the special reference to...
Romans 12:5. SO WE, THE MANY, not, ‘ _being_ many,' but ‘the many,' like the many members of the body, ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST (see marginal references). AND SEVERALLY, etc. The phrase is very unusual...
AND SEVERALLY (το δε καθ' εις). A difficult late idiom where the preposition καθ' (κατα) is treated adverbially with no effect on the nominative case εις like υπερ εγω (2 Corinthians 11:23). So εις...
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...
IN THE SAME WAY. Christians form one body or messianic community under the rule of Christ who is the head. WE ARE ALL JOINED TO EACH OTHER. Just as the parts of our natural body are joined together. E...
_For as we have many members in one body._ ST. PAUL’S VIEW OF LIFE How comprehensively he surveys the whole range of human action and conduct! He starts from the consideration of men as constituting...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 12:4 The diversity and unity of the church is compared to the human body. (See also 1 Corinthians 12:1 and...
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 Corinthians 10:17; 1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Corinthians 12:20; 1 Corinthians 12:27;...
Being many [ο ι π ο λ λ ο ι]. Lit., the many. Rev., better, who are many. Every one [τ ο δ ε κ α θ ε ι ς]. The literal phrase can only be rendered awkwardly : and as to what is true according to one;...
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....