Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
For your obedience—that is, tractableness
is come abroad unto all. I am glad therefore on your behalf—"I rejoice therefore over you," seems the true reading.
but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple—"harmless," as in Matthew 10:16, from which the warning is taken.
concerning—"unto"
evil—"Your reputation among the churches for subjection to the teaching ye have received is to me sufficient ground of confidence in you; but ye need the serpent's wisdom to discriminate between transparent truth and plausible error, with that guileless simplicity which instinctively cleaves to the one and rejects the other."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Romans 16:19:
Jeremiah 4:22
Romans 16:16
Romans 16:27
1 Corinthians 14:20
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