Romans 12:15
What meaning of the romans 12:15 in the Bible?
What does Romans 12:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep."
What does Romans 12:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep."
Verse Romans 12:15. _REJOICE WITH THEM THAT DO REJOICE_] Take a lively interest in the prosperity of others. Let it be a matter of rejoicing to you when you hear of the health, prosperity, or happines...
REJOICE WITH THEM ... - This command grows out of the doctrine stated in Romans 12:4, that the church is one; that it has one interest; and therefore that there should be common sympathy in its joys a...
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.). T...
THE TRUE WORSHIP AND THE ESSENTIAL CHANGE (Romans 12:1-2)...
REJOICE. Compare 1 Corinthians 12:26....
_Rejoice_, &c. On this beautiful and precious precept, cp. 1 Corinthians 12:26; and see the Lord's example, at Cana and at Bethany. St Paul himself knew how to practise his own precept. (2 Corinthians...
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...
ΚΛΑΊΕΙΝ _praes. inf. act. от_ ΚΛΑΊΩ (G2799) плакать; _inf._ имеет значение _imper._ (RG, 1092f; IBG, 126). ΚΛΑΙΌΝΤΩΝ _praes. act. part._ Part, в роли _subst._...
DISCOURSE: 1909 SYMPATHY RECOMMENDED Romans 12:15. _Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep_. AS creatures, we have many duties to perform towards our Creator: and, as members...
_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,...
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. REJOICE WITH THEM THAT REJOICE, [AND] WEEP WITH THEM THAT WEEP, [ Chairein (G5463) ... klaiein (G2799). On the infinitive as imperat...
__ The Conduct of the Saints 14 The conduct of the saints in any given economy is based on God's dispensation. If He dispenses law, He requires conduct in accord with law. Mercy calls for a higher s...
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...
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. Off...
(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....
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 fai...
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 issu...
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,...
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...
15._Rejoice with those who rejoice, etc. _A general truth is in the third place laid down, — that the faithful, regarding each other with mutual affection, are to consider the condition of others as t...
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...
REJOICE WITH THEM THAT DO REJOICE,.... Not in anything sinful and criminal, in a thing of nought, in men's own boastings; all such rejoicing is evil, and not to be joined in; but in things good and la...
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Ver. 15. _Weep with them that weep_] St Cyprian's compassion is remarkable, _Cum singulis pectus meum copulo, maeroris et funeris pond...
_Rejoicing in hope_ Of perfect holiness and everlasting happiness; or _of the glory of God;_ (Romans 5:2;) and _of eternal life, Titus 1:2_; _patient in tribulation_ To which you may be exposed for th...
REJOICE-AND WEEP; manifest a deep interest, a tender sympathy in the joys and sorrows of others....
The Christian's conduct in his personal relations:...
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...
Bless those who persecute you - to pursue, cause to flee, to be sought after Curse not - to pronounce doom upon A. NOT saying: Do not use profanity. B. IS saying: Do not pronounce judgment on them....
__ Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep. 'rejoice' -'Share the happiness of those who are happy' (Phi) The Christian should be able to share in both the sorrows and...
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...
i.e. Be touched with your neighbour's good or evil, as if it were your own. The reason of this sympathy, or fellow feeling, is rendered by the apostle, 1 CORINTHIANS 12:26,27; Because we are members o...
Rejoice with them that rejoice [1 Corinthians 12:26]; _weep with them that weep_. ["One might think," says Chrysostom, "it was no difficult task to rejoice with others. Put it is harder than to weep w...
Tertullian On Idolatry The first point, indeed, on which I shall join issue is this: whether a servant of God ought to share with the very nations themselves in matters of his kind either in dress, o...
Romans 12:15 Rejoice G5463 (G5721) with G3326 rejoice G5463 (G5723) and G2532 weep G2799 (G5721) with G3326 weep G2799 (G5723) Rejoice - Isaiah 66:10-14; Luke 1:58, Luke 15:5-10;...
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...
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)...
REJOICE (χαιρειν). Present active infinitive of χαιρω, absolute or independent use of the infinitive as if a finite verb as occurs sometimes (Robertson, _Grammar_, pp. 1092ff.). Literally here, "Re...
Romans 12:15 I. Christians do not enough bear in mind the duty of cheerfulness. An open and lively countenance, a free and joyous manner of address, are considered rather as happy accidents, than as r...
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 surre...
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...
BE HAPPY. A Christian will share the joys and sorrows of others, especially other Christians....
_Rejoice with them that do rejoice._ THE CHRISTIAN’S JOY AND GRIEF There are some who only rejoice over their own happiness, only weep at their own miseries. They are ruminating animals--always chew...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 12:12. PATIENT IN TRIBULATION.—θλίψις, a pressing together, pressure, from θλίβω, to press. So in Mark 3:9, “lest they should throng Him.” Romans 12:13.—Partaking of your goo...
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 12:26; 2 Corinthians 11:29; 2 Corinthians 2:3; Acts 11:23; Hebrews 13:3; Isaiah 66:10; Jeremiah 9:1; Job 2:11; John 11:19;...
Rejoice — The direct opposite to weeping is laughter; but this does not so well suit a Christian....
The next duty required, is Christian sympathy and mutual affection between brethren, both in prosperity and adversity, to rejoice in the one, and to mourn together in the other, as being members of th...