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Avoid Divisive Persons

17 Now I urge you, brethren, note those awho cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and bavoid them.  
18 For those who are such do not serve our Lord1 Jesus Christ, but atheir own belly, and bby smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.  
19 For ayour obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be bwise in what is good, and simple concerning evil.  
20 And athe God of peace bwill crush Satan under your feet shortly. cThe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.  

Greetings from Paul’s Friends

21 aTimothy, my fellow worker, and bLucius, cJason, and dSosipater, my countrymen, greet you.  
22 I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Romans 16:19

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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