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geneva@Romans:1:1 @ Paul, (note:)The first part of the epistle contains a most profitable preface down to verse six.(:note) a Paul, exhorting the Romans to give diligent heed to him, in that he shows that he comes not in his own name, but as God's messenger to the Gentiles, entreats them with the weightiest matter that exists, promised long ago by God, by many good witnesses, and now at length indeed performed.Minister, for this word «servant» is not taken in this place as set against the word «freeman», but rather refers to and declares his ministry and office. servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an Whereas he said before in a general term that he was a minister, now he comes to a more special name, and says that he is an apostle, and that he did not take this office upon himself by his own doing, but that he was called by God, and therefore in this letter of his to the Romans he is doing nothing but his duty. apostle, Appointed by God to preach the gospel. separated unto the gospel of God,

geneva@Romans:1:2 @ (Which he had promised afore by his Prophetes in the holy Scriptures)

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geneva@Romans:1:4 @ And (note:)Shown and made manifest.(:note) declared [to be] the Son of God with The divine and mighty power is set against the weakness of the flesh, for it overcame death. power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

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geneva@Romans:1:6 @ Among whom are ye also the (note:)Who through God's goodness belong to Christ.(:note) called of Jesus Christ:

geneva@Romans:1:7 @ To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be] saints: (note:)God's free good will: by «peace» the Hebrews mean a prosperous success in all things.(:note) Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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geneva@Romans:1:9 @ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my (note:)Very willingly and with all my heart.(:note) spirit in the In preaching his Son. gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

geneva@Romans:1:10 @ Alwayes in my prayers, beseeching that by some meanes, one time or other I might haue a prosperous iourney by the will of God, to come vnto you.

geneva@Romans:1:11 @ For I long to see you, that I might bestowe among you some spirituall gift, that you might be strengthened:

geneva@Romans:1:12 @ That is, that (note:)Though Paul was ever so excellent, yet in teaching the church, he might be instructed by it.(:note) I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

geneva@Romans:1:13 @ Now my brethren, I would that ye should not be ignorant, how that I haue oftentimes purposed to come vnto you (but haue bene let hitherto) that I might haue some fruite also among you, as I haue among the other Gentiles.

geneva@Romans:1:14 @ I am detter both to the Grecians, and to the Barbarians, both to the wise men and vnto the vnwise.

geneva@Romans:1:15 @ So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at (note:)He means all those who dwell at Rome, though some of them were not Romans; see the end of the epistle.(:note) Rome also.

geneva@Romans:1:16 @ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: (note:)This is the second part of the epistle, until the beginning of chapter nine. Now the whole end and purpose of the discussion is this: that is to say, to show that there is but one way to attain unto salvation (which is displayed to us by God in the gospel, and that equally to every nation), and this way is Jesus Christ apprehended by faith.(:note) for it is the God's mighty and effectual instrument to save men by. power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the When this word «Greek» is contrasted with the word «Jew», then it signifies a Gentile. Greek.

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geneva@Romans:1:20 @ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being (note:)You do not see God, and yet you acknowledge him as God by his works; Cicero.(:note) understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

geneva@Romans:1:21 @ Because that, when they knew God, they (note:)They did not honour him with that honour and service which was appropriate for his everlasting power and Godhead.(:note) glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became As if he said, became so corrupt in themselves. vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

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geneva@Romans:1:23 @ And changed the glory of the (note:)For the true God they substituted another.(:note) uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

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geneva@Romans:1:25 @ Which turned the trueth of God vnto a lie, and worshipped and serued the creature, forsaking the Creator, which is blessed for euer, Amen.

geneva@Romans:1:26 @ For this cause God gaue them vp vnto vile affections: for euen their women did change the naturall vse into that which is against nature.

geneva@Romans:1:27 @ And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that (note:)An appropriate reward and that which they deserved.(:note) recompence of their error which was meet.

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geneva@Romans:1:29 @ Being full of all vnrighteousnesse, fornication, wickednes, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuie, of murther, of debate, of deceit, taking all things in the euill part, whisperers,

geneva@Romans:1:30 @ Backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proude, boasters, inuenters of euil things, disobedient to parents,

geneva@Romans:1:31 @ Without understanding, (note:)Not caring if they keep their covenants and bargains.(:note) covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

geneva@Romans:1:32 @ Who knowing the (note:)By the «judgment of God» he means that which the philosophers called the «law of nature», and the lawyers themselves termed the «law of nations».(:note) judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but Are companions and partakers with them in their wickedness, and beside that, commend those who do wrong. have pleasure in them that do them.

geneva@Romans:2:1 @ Therefore (note:)He convicts those who would seem to be exempt from the rest of men (because they reprehend other men's faults), and says that they are least of all to be excused, for if they were searched well and carefully (as God surely does) they themselves would be found guilty in those things which they reprehend and punish in others: so that in condemning others, they pronounce sentence against themselves.(:note) thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

geneva@Romans:2:2 @ But we (note:)Paul alleges no places of scripture, for he reasons generally against all men: but he brings reasons such that every man is persuaded by them in his mind, so that the devil himself is not able to completely pluck them out.(:note) are sure that the judgment of God is according to Considering and judging things correctly, and not by any outward show. truth against them which commit such things.

geneva@Romans:2:3 @ And thinkest thou this, O thou man, that condemnest them which doe such thinges, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the iudgement of God?

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geneva@Romans:2:5 @ But after thy hardness and impenitent heart (note:)While you are giving yourself to pleasures, thinking to increase your goods, you will find God's wrath.(:note) treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

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geneva@Romans:2:7 @ To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for (note:)Glory which follows good works, which he does not lay out before us as though there were any that could attain to salvation by his own strength, but, he lays this condition of salvation before us, which no man can perform, to bring men to Christ, who alone justifies the believers, as he himself concludes; see (Rom_2:21-22).(:note) glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

geneva@Romans:2:8 @ But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the (note:)By «truth» he means the knowledge which we naturally have.(:note) truth, but obey unrighteousness, God's indignation against sinners, which will quickly be kindled. indignation and wrath,

geneva@Romans:2:9 @ Tribulation and anguish shalbe vpon the soule of euery man that doeth euill: of the Iewe first, and also of the Grecian.

geneva@Romans:2:10 @ But to euery man that doeth good, shalbe glory, and honour, and peace: to the Iew first, and also to the Grecian.

geneva@Romans:2:11 @ For there is no (note:)God does not judge men either by their blood or by their country, either to receive them or to cast them away.(:note) respect of persons with God.

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geneva@Romans:2:15 @ Which shew the work of the law (note:)This knowledge is a natural knowledge.(:note) written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

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geneva@Romans:2:18 @ And knowest [his] will, and (note:)Can test and discern what things swerve from God's will.(:note) approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

geneva@Romans:2:19 @ And persuadest thy selfe that thou art a guide of the blinde, a light of them which are in darkenesse,

geneva@Romans:2:20 @ An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the (note:)The way to teach and to form others in the knowledge of the truth.(:note) form of knowledge and of the truth in the As though he said that the Jews under a pretence of an outward serving of God, attributed all to themselves, when in reality they did nothing less than observe the Law. law.

geneva@Romans:2:21 @ Thou therefore, which teachest another, teachest thou not thy selfe? thou that preachest, A man should not steale, doest thou steale?

geneva@Romans:2:22 @ Thou that saist, A man should not commit adulterie, doest thou commit adulterie? thou that abhorrest idoles, committest thou sacrilege?

geneva@Romans:2:23 @ Thou that gloriest in the Lawe, through breaking the Lawe, dishonourest thou God?

geneva@Romans:2:24 @ For ye Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

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geneva@Romans:2:26 @ Therefore if the (note:)This is the figure of speech metonymy, and means «uncircumcised».(:note) uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his The state and condition of the uncircumcised. uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

geneva@Romans:2:27 @ And shall not (note:)He who is uncircumcised by nature and race.(:note) uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the Paul often contrasts the letter against the Spirit: but in this place, the circumcision which is according to the letter is the cutting off of the foreskin, but the circumcision of the Spirit is the circumcision of the heart, that is to say, the spiritual result of the ceremony is true holiness and righteousness, by which the people of God are known from profane and heathen men. letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

geneva@Romans:2:28 @ For he is not a Jew, which is one (note:)By the outward ceremony only.(:note) outwardly; neither [is that] circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

geneva@Romans:2:29 @ But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the (note:)Whose power is inward, and in the heart.(:note) spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.

geneva@Romans:3:1 @ What (note:)The first address to the Jews, or the first anticipating of an objection by the Jews: what then, are the Jews preferred no more than the Gentiles? Indeed, they are, says the apostle, by the doing of God, for he committed the tables of the covenant to them, so that the unbelief of a few cannot cause the whole nation without exception to be cast away by God, who is true, and who also uses their unworthiness to commend and set forth his goodness.(:note) advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?

geneva@Romans:3:2 @ Much every way: (note:)The Jews' state and condition was of principal importance.(:note) chiefly, because that unto them were committed the Words. oracles of God.

geneva@Romans:3:3 @ For what if some did not (note:)Break the covenant.(:note) believe? shall their unbelief make the The faith that God gave. faith of God without effect?

geneva@Romans:3:4 @ God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be (note:)That your justice might be plainly seen.(:note) justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome Seeing that you showed forth an true token of your righteousness, steadfastness and faith, by preserving him who had broken his covenant. when thou art judged.

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geneva@Romans:3:6 @ God forbid: els how shal God iudge ye world?

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geneva@Romans:3:8 @ And (as we are blamed, & as some affirme, that we say) why doe we not euil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is iust.

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geneva@Romans:3:10 @ As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.

geneva@Romans:3:11 @ There is none that vnderstandeth: there is none that seeketh God.

geneva@Romans:3:12 @ They haue all gone out of the way: they haue bene made altogether vnprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

geneva@Romans:3:13 @ Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.

geneva@Romans:3:14 @ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.

geneva@Romans:3:15 @ Their feete are swift to shead blood.

geneva@Romans:3:16 @ Destruction & calamity are in their waies,

geneva@Romans:3:17 @ And the (note:)An innocent and peaceable life.(:note) way of peace have they not known:

geneva@Romans:3:18 @ The feare of God is not before their eies.

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geneva@Romans:3:20 @ Therefore by the (note:)By those deeds by which the law can be done by us.(:note) deeds of the law there shall no Flesh is here taken for man, as in many other places, and furthermore has greater force here: for it is given to show the contrast between God and man: as if one would say, «Man, who is nothing else but a piece of flesh defiled with sin, and God, who is most pure and most perfect in himself.» flesh be Absolved before the judgment seat of God. justified in his Paul has in mind a contrasting of the righteousness of before men, be they ever so just, against the justice which can stand before God: now there is no righteousness that can stand before God, except the righteousness of Christ alone. sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.

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geneva@Romans:3:23 @ For all have sinned, and come short of the (note:)By the «glory of God» is meant that mark which we all aim for, that is, everlasting life, which consists in our being made partakers of the glory of God.(:note) glory of God;

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geneva@Romans:3:26 @ To declare, [I say], (note:)That is, when Paul wrote this.(:note) at this time his righteousness: that he might be That he might be found exceedingly truth and faithful. just, and the Making him just and without blame, but putting Christ's righteousness to him. justifier of him which Of the number of those who by faith lay hold upon Christ: contrary to whom are those who seek to be saved by circumcision, that is by the law. believeth in Jesus.

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geneva@Romans:3:28 @ Therefore we conclude, that a man is iustified by faith, without the workes of the Lawe.

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geneva@Romans:3:30 @ Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify (note:)The circumcised.(:note) the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

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geneva@Romans:4:1 @ What (note:)A new argument of great weight, taken from the example of Abraham the father of all believers: and this is the proposition: if Abraham is considered in himself by his works, he has deserved nothing with which to rejoice with God.(:note) shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the By works, as is evident from the next verse. flesh, hath found?

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geneva@Romans:4:5 @ But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that (note:)That makes him who is wicked in himself to be just in Christ.(:note) justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

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geneva@Romans:4:7 @ Blessed are they, whose iniquities are forgiuen, and whose sinnes are couered.

geneva@Romans:4:8 @ Blessed is the man, to whom the Lord imputeth not sinne.

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geneva@Romans:4:17 @ (As it is written, I have made thee a (note:)This fatherhood is spiritual, depending only upon the power of God, who made the promise.(:note) father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] Before God, that is by membership in his spiritual family, which has a place before God, and makes us acceptable to God. God, who Who restores to life. quickeneth the dead, and With whom those things are already, which as yet are not indeed, as he can with a word make what he wishes out of nothing. calleth those things which be not as though they were.

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geneva@Romans:4:19 @ And being (note:)Very strong and steadfast.(:note) not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now Void of strength, and unfit to have children. dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

geneva@Romans:4:20 @ He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving (note:)Acknowledged and praised God, as most gracious and true.(:note) glory to God;

geneva@Romans:4:21 @ And being (note:)A description of true faith.(:note) fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

geneva@Romans:4:22 @ And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnesse.

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geneva@Romans:4:24 @ But also for vs, to whom it shalbe imputed for righteousnesse, which beleeue in him that raised vp Iesus our Lord from the dead,

geneva@Romans:4:25 @ Who was delivered for our (note:)To pay the ransom for our sins.(:note) offences, and was raised again for our justification.

geneva@Romans:5:1 @ Therefore being (note:)Another argument taken from the effects: we are justified with that which truly appeases our conscience before God: and faith in Christ does appease our conscience and not the law, as it was said before, therefore by faith we are justified, and not by the law.(:note) justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

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geneva@Romans:5:4 @ And patience experience, and experience hope,

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geneva@Romans:5:8 @ But God (note:)He commends his love toward us, so that in the midst of our afflictions we may know assuredly that he will be present with us.(:note) commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet While sin reigned in us. sinners, Christ died for us.

geneva@Romans:5:9 @ Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from (note:)From affliction and destruction.(:note) wrath through him.

geneva@Romans:5:10 @ For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne, much more being reconciled, we shalbe saued by his life,

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geneva@Romans:5:21 @ That as sinne had reigned vnto death, so might grace also reigne by righteousnesse vnto eternall life, through Iesus Christ our Lord.

geneva@Romans:6:1 @ What (note:)He passes now to another benefit of Christ, which is called sanctification or regeneration.(:note) shall we say then? Shall we continue in In that corruption, for though the guiltiness of sin, is not imputed to us, yet the corruption still remains in us: and this is killed little by little by the sanctification that follows justification. sin, that grace may abound?

geneva@Romans:6:2 @ God forbid. (note:)The benefits of justification and sanctification are always inseparable joined together, and both of them proceed from Christ by the grace of God: now sanctification is the abolishing of sin, that is, of our natural corruption, whose place is taken by the cleanness and pureness of a reformed nature.(:note) How shall we, that are They are said by Paul to be dead to sin, who are made partakers of the power of Christ, so that the natural corruption is dead in them, that is, the power of it is removed, and it does not bring forth its bitter fruits: and on the other hand, they are said to live to sin, who are in the flesh, that is, whom the Spirit of God has not delivered from the slavery of the corruption of nature. dead to sin, live any longer therein?

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geneva@Romans:6:4 @ Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead (note:)So that Christ himself, being released of his infirmity and weakness, might live in glory with God forever.(:note) by the glory of the Father, even so And we who are his members rise for this purpose, that being made partakers of the very same power, we should begin to lead a new life, as though we were already in heaven. we also should walk in newness of life.

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geneva@Romans:6:6 @ Knowing this, that our (note:)Our entire nature, as we are conceived and born into this world with sin, is called «old», partly by comparing that old Adam with Christ, and partly also in respect of the deformed state of our corrupt nature, which we change with a new.(:note) old man is crucified with Our corrupt nature is regarded as belonging to Christ, not because of what he has done, but by imputation. [him], that the That wickedness which remains in us. body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not The end of sanctification which we aim at, and will at length come to, that is, when God will be all in all. serve sin.

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geneva@Romans:6:8 @ Wherefore, if we bee dead with Christ, we beleeue that we shall liue also with him,

geneva@Romans:6:9 @ Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, dieth no more: death hath no more dominion ouer him.

geneva@Romans:6:10 @ For in that he died, he died unto sin (note:)Once for all.(:note) once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto With God. God.

geneva@Romans:6:11 @ Likewise thinke ye also, that ye are dead to sin, but are aliue to God in Iesus Christ our Lord.

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geneva@Romans:6:13 @ Neither (note:)To sin, as to a Lord or tyrant.(:note) yield ye your Your mind and all the powers of it. members [as] As instruments to commit wickedness with them. instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.

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geneva@Romans:6:16 @ Knowe ye not, that to whomsoeuer yee giue your selues as seruats to obey, his seruants ye are to whom ye obey, whether it be of sinne vnto death, or of obedience vnto righteousnesse?

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geneva@Romans:6:18 @ Being then made free from sinne, yee are made the seruants of righteousnesse.

geneva@Romans:6:19 @ I speake after the maner of man, because of the infirmitie of your flesh: for as yee haue giuen your members seruants to vncleannes and to iniquitie, to commit iniquitie, so now giue your mebers seruants vnto righteousnesse in holinesse.

geneva@Romans:6:20 @ For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were (note:)Righteousness had no rule over you.(:note) free from righteousness.

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geneva@Romans:6:22 @ But now being freed from sinne, and made seruants vnto God, ye haue your fruit in holines, and the end, euerlasting life.

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geneva@Romans:7:1 @ Know (note:)By expounding the similitude of marriage, he compares together the state of man both before and after regeneration. The law of matrimony, he says, is this, that as long as the husband lives, the marriage remains binding, but if he is dead, the woman may marry again.(:note) ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

geneva@Romans:7:2 @ For the woman which is in subiection to a man, is bound by the Lawe to the man, while he liueth: but if the man bee dead, shee is deliuered from the lawe of the man.

geneva@Romans:7:3 @ So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be (note:)That is, she will be an adulteress, by the consent and judgment of all men.(:note) called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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geneva@Romans:7:6 @ But now we are delivered from the law, that (note:)As if he said, «The bond which bound us is dead, and has disappeared, in as much that the sin which held us does not have anything to hold us with now.»(:note) being dead For this husband is within us. wherein we were Satan is an unjust possessor, for he deceitfully brought us into bondage to sin and himself: and yet nonetheless, as long as we are sinners, we sin willingly. held; that we should serve in As is appropriate for those who, after the death of their old husband, are joined to the Spirit, the ones whom the Spirit of God has made new men. newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the By the letter he means the law, with respect to that old condition: for before our will is shaped by the Holy Spirit, the law speaks but to deaf men, and therefore it is dumb and dead to us, with regard to the fulfilling of it. letter.

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geneva@Romans:7:8 @ But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] (note:)Though sin is in us, yet it is not known as sin, neither does it rage in the same way that it rages after the law is known.(:note) dead.

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geneva@Romans:7:10 @ But I died: and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death.

geneva@Romans:7:11 @ For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and deceiued me, and thereby slewe me.

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geneva@Romans:7:16 @ If I doe then that which I woulde not, I consent to the Lawe, that it is good.

geneva@Romans:7:17 @ Now then it is no more I that do it, but (note:)That natural corruption, which adheres strongly even to those that are regenerated, and is not completely gone.(:note) sin that dwelleth in me.

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geneva@Romans:7:19 @ For I doe not the good thing, which I would, but the euil, which I would not, that do I.

geneva@Romans:7:20 @ Nowe if I do that I would not, it is no more I that doe it, but the sinne that dwelleth in me.

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geneva@Romans:7:22 @ For I delight in the law of God after the (note:)The inner man and the new man are the same, and are compared and contrasted with the old man; and neither do these words «inward man» signify man's mind and reason, and the «old man» the physical body that is subject to them, as the philosophers imagine: but by the outward man is meant whatever is either without or within a man from top to bottom, as long as that man is not born again by the grace of God.(:note) inward man:

geneva@Romans:7:23 @ But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my (note:)The law of the mind in this place is not to be understood as referring to the mind as it is naturally, and as our mind is from our birth, but of the mind which is renewed by the Spirit of God.(:note) mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

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geneva@Romans:7:25 @ I (note:)He recovers himself, and shows us that he rests only in Christ.(:note) thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I This is the true perfection of those that are born again, to confess that they are imperfect. myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

geneva@Romans:8:1 @ [There is] (note:)A conclusion of all the former discussion, from (Rom_1:16) to this verse: seeing that we, being justified by faith in Christ, obtain remission of sins and imputation of righteousness, and are also sanctified, it follows from this that those who are grafted into Christ by faith, need have no fear of condemnation.(:note) therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who The fruits of the Spirit, or effects of sanctification, which are begun in us, do not ingraft us into Christ, but declare that we are grafted into him. walk not after the Do not follow the flesh as their guide: for he is not said to live after the flesh that has the Holy Spirit for his guide, even though he sometimes takes a step off of the path. flesh, but after the Spirit.

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geneva@Romans:8:4 @ That the (note:)The very substance of the law of God might be fulfilled, or that same which the law requires, that we may be found just before God: for if with our justification there is joined that sanctification which is imputed to us, we are just, according to the perfect form which the Lord requires.(:note) righteousness of the law might be fulfilled He returns to that which he said, that the sanctification which is begun in us is a sure testimony of our ingrafting into Christ, which is a most plentiful fruit of a godly and honest life. in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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geneva@Romans:8:16 @ The same Spirit beareth witnesse with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

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geneva@Romans:8:20 @ For the creature was made subject to (note:)Is subject to a vanishing and disappearing state.(:note) vanity, not Not by their natural inclination. willingly, but by reason That they should obey the Creator's commandment, whom it pleased to show by their sickly state, how greatly he was displeased with man. of him who hath subjected [the same] in God would not make the world subject to be cursed forever because of the sin of man, but gave it hope that it would be restored. hope,

geneva@Romans:8:21 @ Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the (note:)From the corruption which they are now subject to, they will be delivered and changed into the blessed state of incorruption, which will be revealed when the sons of God will be advanced to glory.(:note) bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

geneva@Romans:8:22 @ For we know that the whole creation groaneth and (note:)By this word is meant not only exceeding sorrow, but also the fruit that follows from it.(:note) travaileth in pain together until now.

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geneva@Romans:8:25 @ But if we hope for that we see not, we doe with patience abide for it.

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geneva@Romans:8:27 @ And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the (note:)What sighs and sobs proceed from the impulse of his Spirit.(:note) mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints Because he teaches the godly to pray according to God's will. according to [the will of] God.

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geneva@Romans:8:29 @ For those which hee knewe before, he also predestinate to bee made like to the image of his Sonne, that hee might be the first borne among many brethren.

geneva@Romans:8:30 @ Moreover whom he did (note:)He uses the past tense for the present time, as the Hebrews use, who sometimes describe something that is to come by using the past tense, to signify the certainty of it: and he also is referring to God's continual working.(:note) predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

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geneva@Romans:8:32 @ He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely (note:)Give us freely.(:note) give us all things?

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geneva@Romans:8:34 @ Who shall condemne? it is Christ which is dead, yea, or rather, which is risen againe, who is also at the right hand of God, and maketh request also for vs.

geneva@Romans:8:35 @ Who shall separate us from the love of (note:)With which Christ loves us.(:note) Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

geneva@Romans:8:36 @ As it is written, For thy sake are we killed all day long: we are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.

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geneva@Romans:8:38 @ For I am perswaded that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

geneva@Romans:8:39 @ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shalbe able to separate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christ Iesus our Lord.

geneva@Romans:9:1 @ I say (note:)The third part of this epistle, which goes to the twelfth chapter, in which Paul ascends to the higher causes of faith: and first of all, because he purposed to speak much of the casting off of the Jews, he uses a declaration, saying by a double or triple oath, and by witnessing of his great desire towards their salvation, his singular love towards them, and in addition granting to them all their privileges.(:note) the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

geneva@Romans:9:2 @ That I haue great heauinesse, and continuall sorow in mine heart.

geneva@Romans:9:3 @ For I could wish that myself were (note:)The apostle loved his brethren so completely that if it had been possible he would have been ready to have redeemed the castaways of the Israelites with the loss of his own soul forever: for this word «accursed» signifies as much in this place.(:note) accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the Being brethren by flesh, as from one nation and country. flesh:

geneva@Romans:9:4 @ Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the (note:)The ark of the covenant, which was a token of God's presence.(:note) glory, and the The tables of the covenant, and this is spoken by the figure of speech metonymy. covenants, and the giving of the Of the judicial law. law, and the The ceremonial law. service [of God], and the Which were made to Abraham and to his posterity. promises;

geneva@Romans:9:5 @ Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], (note:)Or, «who is God over all, blessed for ever.» A most manifest testimony of the Godhead and divinity of Christ.(:note) who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

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geneva@Romans:9:7 @ Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: (note:)The first proof is taken from the example of Abraham's own house, in which Isaac only was considered the son, and that by God's ordinance: although Ishmael also was born of Abraham, and circumcised before Isaac.(:note) but, In Isaac will be your true and natural son, and therefore heir of the blessing. Isaac shall thy seed be called.

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geneva@Romans:9:11 @ (For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the (note:)God's decree which proceeds from only his good will, by which it pleases him to choose one, and refuse the other.(:note) purpose of God according to election might Paul does not say, «might be made», but «being made might remain». Therefore they are deceived who make foreseen faith the cause of election, and foreknown infidelity the cause of reprobation. stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

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geneva@Romans:9:13 @ As it is written, I haue loued Iacob, and haue hated Esau.

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geneva@Romans:9:23 @ And that he might make known the (note:)The unmeasurable and marvellous greatness.(:note) riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

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geneva@Romans:9:26 @ And it shalbe in the place where it was said vnto them, Ye are not my people, that there they shalbe called, The children of the liuing God.

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geneva@Romans:9:28 @ For he will finish the work, and cut [it] (note:)God chooses and goes about to reduce the unkind and unthankful people to a very small number.(:note) short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

geneva@Romans:9:29 @ And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of (note:)Armies, by which word the greatest power that exists is attributed to God.(:note) Sabaoth had left us a Even as very few. seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

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geneva@Romans:9:32 @ Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the (note:)Seeking to attain righteousness, they followed the law of righteousness.(:note) works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

geneva@Romans:9:33 @ As it is written, Beholde, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone, and a rocke to make men fall: and euery one that beleeueth in him, shall not be ashamed.

geneva@Romans:10:1 @ Brethren, (note:)Purposing to set forth in the Jews an example of marvellous obstinacy, he uses this declaration.(:note) my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

geneva@Romans:10:2 @ For I beare them record, that they haue the zeale of God, but not according to knowledge.

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geneva@Romans:10:6 @ But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, (note:)Do not think to yourself, as men that are doubting do.(:note) Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down [from above]:)

geneva@Romans:10:7 @ Or, Who shal descend into the deepe? (that is to bring Christ againe from the dead)

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geneva@Romans:10:10 @ For with the heart man (note:)Faith is said to justify, and furthermore seeing the confession of the mouth is an effect of faith, and confession in the way to come to salvation, it follows that faith is also said to save.(:note) believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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geneva@Romans:10:12 @ For there is no difference betweene the Iewe and the Grecian: for he that is Lorde ouer all, is rich vnto all, that call on him.

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geneva@Romans:10:14 @ How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? (note:)That is, true faith, which seeks God in his word, and that preached: and this preaching God has appointed in the Church.(:note) and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

geneva@Romans:10:15 @ And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, Howe beautifull are the feete of them which bring glad tidings of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

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geneva@Romans:10:20 @ But Esaias is very (note:)Speaks without fear.(:note) bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

geneva@Romans:10:21 @ And vnto Israel hee sayth, All the day long haue I stretched foorth mine hand vnto a disobedient, and gainesaying people.

geneva@Romans:11:1 @ I say then, (note:)Now the apostle shows how this doctrine is to be applied to others, remaining still in his propounded cause. Therefore he teaches us that all the Jews in particular are not cast away, and therefore we ought not to pronounce rashly of individual persons, whether they are of the number of the elect or not.(:note) Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For The first proof: I am a Jew, and yet elected, therefore we may and ought fully to be sure of our election, as has been said before: but of another man's we cannot be so certainly sure, and yet ours may cause us to hope well of others. I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.

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geneva@Romans:11:3 @ Lord, they haue killed thy Prophets, and digged downe thine altars: and I am left alone, and they seeke my life?

geneva@Romans:11:4 @ But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have (note:)He speaks of remnants and reserved people who were chosen from everlasting, and not of remnants that should be chosen afterwards: for they are not chosen, because they were not idolaters: but rather they were not idolaters, because they were chosen and elect.(:note) reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to [the image of] «Baal» signifies as much as «master» or «patron», or one in whose power another is, which name the idolaters in this day give their idols, naming them «patrons», and «patronesses» or «ladies». Baal.

geneva@Romans:11:5 @ Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the (note:)The election of grace is not that by which men chose grace, but by which God chose us of his grace and goodness.(:note) election of grace.

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geneva@Romans:11:7 @ What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were (note:)See (Mar_3:5).(:note) blinded

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geneva@Romans:11:9 @ And David saith, (note:)As unhappy birds are enticed by that which is their sustenance, and then killed, and so did that thing turn to the Jew's destruction, out of which they sought life, that is, the law of God, for the preposterous zeal of which they refused the Gospel.(:note) Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

geneva@Romans:11:10 @ Let their eyes be darkened that they see not, and bowe downe their backe alwayes.

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geneva@Romans:11:12 @ Now if the fall of them [be] the (note:)By «riches» he means the knowledge of the Gospel to everlasting life: and by the «world», all nations dispersed throughout the whole world.(:note) riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their Of the Jews, when the whole nation without exception will come to Christ. fulness?

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geneva@Romans:11:14 @ To trie if by any meanes I might prouoke them of my flesh to follow them, and might saue some of them.

geneva@Romans:11:15 @ For if the casting away of them [be] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], (note:)It will come to pass that when the Jews come to the Gospel, the world will as it were come to life again, and rise up from death to life.(:note) but life from the dead?

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geneva@Romans:11:19 @ Thou wilt say then, The branches are broken off, that I might be graft in.

geneva@Romans:11:20 @ Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but (note:)See that you stand in awe of God modestly, and carefully.(:note) fear:

geneva@Romans:11:21 @ For if God spared not the (note:)He calls them natural, not because they had any holiness by nature, but because they were born of those whom the Lord set apart for himself from other nations, by his league and covenant which he freely made with them.(:note) natural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not thee.

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geneva@Romans:11:24 @ For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by (note:)Understand nature, not as it was first made, but as it was corrupted in Adam, and so passed on from him to his posterity.(:note) nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a Into the people of the Jews, whom God had sanctified only by his grace: and he speaks of the whole nation, not of any one part. good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural [branches], be graffed into their own olive tree?

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geneva@Romans:11:26 @ And so all Israel shalbe saued, as it is written, The deliuerer shall come out of Sion, and shall turne away the vngodlinesse from Iacob.

geneva@Romans:11:27 @ And this is my couenant to them, When I shall take away their sinnes.

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geneva@Romans:11:31 @ Euen so nowe haue they not beleeued by the mercie shewed vnto you, that they also may obtaine mercie.

geneva@Romans:11:32 @ For God hath concluded them (note:)Both Jews and Gentiles.(:note) all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

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geneva@Romans:11:35 @ Or who hath (note:)This saying overthrows the doctrine of foreseen works and merits.(:note) first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

geneva@Romans:11:36 @ For of him, and through him, and to (note:)That is, for God, to whose glory all things are ascribed, not only things that were made, but especially his new works which he works in his elect.(:note) him, [are] all things: to whom [be] glory for ever. Amen.

geneva@Romans:12:1 @ I beseech (note:)The fourth part of this epistle, which after the finishing of the principal points of Christian doctrine, consists in the declaring of precepts of the Christian life. And first of all he gives general precepts and grounds: the principal of which is this, that every man consecrate himself wholly to the spiritual service of God, and do as it were sacrifice himself, trusting the grace of God.(:note) you therefore, brethren, By this preface he shows that God's glory is the utmost goal of everything we do. by the mercies of God, that ye In times past the sacrifices were presented before the altar: but now the altar is everywhere. present your Yourselves: in times past other bodies besides our own, but now our own must be offered. bodies a In times past, dead sacrifices were offered, but now we must offer those which have the spirit of life in them. living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your Spiritual. reasonable service.

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geneva@Romans:12:5 @ So we being many are one body in Christ, and euery one, one anothers members.

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geneva@Romans:12:7 @ Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he that (note:)Whose office is only to expound the scriptures.(:note) teacheth, on teaching;

geneva@Romans:12:8 @ Or he that (note:)Who in other passages is called the «pastor».(:note) exhorteth, on exhortation: he that That is, the alms, that he distributes them faithfully, and without any favouritism. giveth, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that The elders of the church. ruleth, with diligence; he that Those that are occupied with the care of the poor must do it with cheerfulness, lest they add sorrow upon sorrow. sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

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geneva@Romans:12:10 @ Be affectioned to loue one another with brotherly loue. In giuing honour, goe one before another,

geneva@Romans:12:11 @ Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; (note:)This verse is well put, for it makes a distinction between Christian duties, and philosophical duties.(:note) serving the Lord;

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geneva@Romans:12:14 @ Blesse them which persecute you: blesse, I say, and curse not.

geneva@Romans:12:15 @ Reioyce with them that reioyce, & weepe with them that weepe.

geneva@Romans:12:16 @ [Be] of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of (note:)There is nothing that disrupts harmony as much as seeking glory, when every man detests a base estate, and ambitiously seeks to be exalted.(:note) low estate. Be not Do not be puffed up with an opinion of your own wisdom. wise in your own conceits.

geneva@Romans:12:17 @ Recompence to no man euill for euill: procure things honest in the sight of all men.

geneva@Romans:12:18 @ If it bee possible, as much as in you is, haue peace with all men.

geneva@Romans:12:19 @ Dearely beloued, auenge not your selues, but giue place vnto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine: I will repay, saith the Lord.

geneva@Romans:12:20 @ Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap (note:)In this manner Solomon points out the wrath of God which hangs over a man.(:note) coals of fire on his head.

geneva@Romans:12:21 @ Bee not ouercome of euill, but ouercome euill with goodnesse.

geneva@Romans:13:1 @ Let (note:)Now he distinctly shows what subjects owe to their magistrates, that is, obedience: from which he shows that no man is free: and the obedience we owe is such that it is not only due to the highest magistrate himself, but also even to the lowest, who has any office under him.(:note) every Indeed, though an apostle, though an evangelist, though a prophet; Chrysostom. Therefore the tyranny of the pope over all kingdoms must be thrown down to the ground. soul be subject unto the higher A reason taken from the nature of the thing itself: for to what purpose are they placed in higher degree, but in order that the inferiors should be subject to them? powers. Another argument of great force: because God is author of this order: so that those who are rebels ought to know that they make war with God himself: and because of this they purchase for themselves great misery and calamity. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are Be distributed: for some are greater, some smaller. ordained of God.

geneva@Romans:13:2 @ Whosoeuer therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist, shall receiue to themselues condemnation.

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geneva@Romans:13:4 @ For he is the minister of God to thee for good. (note:)God has armed the magistrate even with an avenging sword.(:note) But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a By whom God avenges the wicked. revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil.

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geneva@Romans:13:7 @ Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom (note:)Obedience, and that from the heart.(:note) fear; honour to whom Reverence, which (as we have reason) we must give to the magistrate. honour.

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geneva@Romans:13:9 @ For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is (note:)For the whole law commands nothing else but that we love God and our neighbour. But seeing that Paul speaks here of the duties we owe one to another, we must restrain this word «law» to the second table of the ten commandments.(:note) briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

geneva@Romans:13:10 @ Loue doeth not euill to his neighbour: therefore is loue the fulfilling of the Lawe.

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geneva@Romans:13:12 @ The night is far spent, the day is (note:)In other places we are said to be in the light, but yet so that it does not yet appear what we are, for as yet we see but as it were in the twilight.(:note) at hand: let us therefore cast off the works That kind of life which those lead that flee the light. of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

geneva@Romans:13:13 @ So that wee walke honestly, as in the day: not in gluttonie, and drunkennesse, neither in chambering and wantonnes, nor in strife and enuying.

geneva@Romans:13:14 @ But (note:)To put on Christ is to possess Christ, to have him in us, and us in him.(:note) put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].

geneva@Romans:14:1 @ Him (note:)Now he shows how we ought to behave ourselves toward our brethren in matters and things indifferent, who offend in the use of them not from malice or damnable superstition, but for lack of knowledge of the benefit of Christ. And thus he teaches that they are to be instructed gently and patiently, and so that we apply ourselves to their ignorance in such matters according to the rule of charity.(:note) that is weak in the faith Do not for a matter or thing which is indifferent, and such a thing as you may do or not do, shun his company, but take him to you. receive ye, [but] not to To make him by your doubtful and uncertain disputations go away in more doubt than he came, or return back with a troubled conscience. doubtful disputations.

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geneva@Romans:14:8 @ For whether wee liue, we liue vnto the Lorde: or whether we die, we die vnto the Lorde: whether we liue therefore, or die, we are the Lords.

geneva@Romans:14:9 @ For Christ therefore died and rose againe, and reuiued, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the quicke.

geneva@Romans:14:10 @

geneva@Romans:14:11 @ For it is written, [As] I (note:)This is a form of an oath, proper to God alone, for he and none but he lives, and has his being of himself.(:note) live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall Will acknowledge be to be from God. confess to God.

geneva@Romans:14:12 @ So then euery one of vs shall giue accounts of himselfe to God.

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geneva@Romans:14:15 @ But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. (note:)It is the part of a cruel mind to make more account of meat than of our brother's salvation. Which thing those do who eat with the intent of giving offence to any brother, and so give him occasion to turn back from the Gospel.(:note) Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Another argument: we must follow Christ's example: and Christ was so far from destroying the weak with meat that he gave his life for them. Christ died.

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geneva@Romans:14:18 @ For he that in (note:)He that lives peaceably, and does righteously, through the Holy Spirit.(:note) these things serveth Christ [is] acceptable to God, and approved of men.

geneva@Romans:14:19 @

geneva@Romans:14:20 @ Destroy not the worke of God for meates sake: all things in deede are pure: but it is euill for the man which eateth with offence.

geneva@Romans:14:21 @ It is good neither to eate flesh, nor to drinke wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weake.

geneva@Romans:14:22 @

geneva@Romans:14:23 @ And he that (note:)Reasons with himself.(:note) doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.

geneva@Romans:15:1 @ We (note:)Now the apostle reasons generally of tolerating or bearing with the weak by all means, in so far that it may be for their profit.(:note) then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to And despise others. please ourselves.

geneva@Romans:15:2 @ Let every one of us please [his] neighbour for [his] (note:)For his profit and edification.(:note) good to edification.

geneva@Romans:15:3 @

geneva@Romans:15:4 @

geneva@Romans:15:5 @

geneva@Romans:15:6 @ That ye with one minde, and with one mouth may prayse God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ.

geneva@Romans:15:7 @ Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also (note:)He did not shun us, but received us of his own accord, to make us partakers of God's glory.(:note) received us to the glory of God.

geneva@Romans:15:8 @

geneva@Romans:15:9 @

geneva@Romans:15:10 @ And againe he saith, Reioyce, ye Gentiles with his people.

geneva@Romans:15:11 @ And againe, Prayse the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and laude ye him, all people together.

geneva@Romans:15:12 @ And againe Esaias sayth, There shall be a roote of Iesse, and hee that shall rise to reigne ouer the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust.

geneva@Romans:15:13 @

geneva@Romans:15:14 @

geneva@Romans:15:15 @ Neuerthelesse, brethren, I haue somewhat boldly after a sort written vnto you, as one that putteth you in remembrance, through the grace that is giuen me of God,

geneva@Romans:15:16 @ That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the (note:)By the offering up of the Gentiles, he means the Gentiles themselves, whom he offered to God as a sacrifice.(:note) offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

geneva@Romans:15:17 @

geneva@Romans:15:18 @ For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which (note:)Christ was so with me in all things, and by all means, that even if I had wanted to, yet I cannot say what he has done by me to bring the Gentiles to obey the gospel.(:note) Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

geneva@Romans:15:19 @ Through (note:)In the first place this word «mighty» signifies the force and working of the wonders in piercing men's minds: and in the latter, it signifies God's mighty power which was the worker of those wonders.(:note) mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

geneva@Romans:15:20 @ Yea, so I enforced my selfe to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should haue built on another mans foundation.

geneva@Romans:15:21 @ But as it is written, To whome hee was not spoken of, they shall see him, and they that heard not, shall vnderstand him.

geneva@Romans:15:22 @

geneva@Romans:15:23 @ But nowe seeing I haue no more place in these quarters, and also haue bene desirous many yeeres agone to come vnto you,

geneva@Romans:15:24 @ When I shal take my iourney into Spaine, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my iourney, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, after that I haue bene somewhat filled with your company.

geneva@Romans:15:25 @ But now I go unto Jerusalem to (note:)Doing his duty for the saints, to carry to them that money which was gathered for their use.(:note) minister unto the saints.

geneva@Romans:15:26 @ For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia, to make a certaine distribution vnto the poore Saints which are at Hierusalem.

geneva@Romans:15:27 @

geneva@Romans:15:28 @ When therefore I have performed this, and have (note:)Performed it faithfully, and sealed it as it were with my ring.(:note) sealed to them this This money which was gathered for the use of the poor: and these alms are very fitly called fruit. fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

geneva@Romans:15:29 @

geneva@Romans:15:30 @ Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the (note:)For the mutual union, with which the Holy Spirit has united our hearts and minds together.(:note) love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in [your] prayers to God for me;

geneva@Romans:15:31 @ That I may be deliuered from them which are disobedient in Iudea, & that my seruice which I haue to doe at Hierusalem, may be accepted of the Saintes,

geneva@Romans:15:32 @ That I may come vnto you with ioy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

geneva@Romans:15:33 @ Thus the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

geneva@Romans:16:1 @ I (note:)Having made an end of the whole discussion, he comes now to familiar commendations and salutations, and that to good consideration and purpose, that is, that the Romans might know who are most to be honoured and to be considered among them: and also whom they ought to set before them to follow: and therefore he attributes to every of them individual and singular testimonies.(:note) commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

geneva@Romans:16:2 @ That ye receive her in the (note:)For Christ's sake, which appropriately belongs to the Christians, for the heathen philosophers have a resemblance of the same virtues.(:note) Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.

geneva@Romans:16:3 @ Greete Priscilla, and Aquila my fellowe helpers in Christ Iesus,

geneva@Romans:16:4 @ (Which haue for my life laide downe their owne necke. Vnto whom not I onely giue thankes, but also all the Churches of the Gentiles.)

geneva@Romans:16:5 @ Likewise [greet] the (note:)The company of the faithful, for in so great a city as that was, there were different companies.(:note) church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the For he was the first of Achaia that believed in Christ: and this type of speech is an allusion to the ceremonies of the law. firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

geneva@Romans:16:6 @ Greete Marie which bestowed much labour on vs.

geneva@Romans:16:7 @ Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in (note:)Ingrafted by faith.(:note) Christ before me.

geneva@Romans:16:8 @ Greete Amplias my beloued in the Lord.

geneva@Romans:16:9 @ Salute Vrbanus our fellow helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloued.

geneva@Romans:16:10 @ Salute Apelles approoued in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus friendes.

geneva@Romans:16:11 @ Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greete them which are of the friendes of Narcissus which are in the Lord.

geneva@Romans:16:12 @ Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, which women labour in the Lorde. Salute the beloued Persis, which woman hath laboured much in the Lord.

geneva@Romans:16:13 @ Salute Rufus chosen in the Lorde, and his mother and mine.

geneva@Romans:16:14 @ Greete Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Mercurius, and the brethren which are with them.

geneva@Romans:16:15 @ Salute Philologus and Iulias, Nereas, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the Saintes which are with them.

geneva@Romans:16:16 @ Salute one another with an holy (note:)He calls that a holy kiss which proceeds from a heart that is full of that holy love: now this is to be understood as referring to the manner used in those days.(:note) kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

geneva@Romans:16:17 @

geneva@Romans:16:18 @ For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by (note:)The word which he uses signifies a promising which accomplishes nothing, and if you hear any such, you may assure yourself that he who promises to you is more concerned about receiving from you than he is concerned about giving to you.(:note) good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

geneva@Romans:16:19 @

geneva@Romans:16:20 @

geneva@Romans:16:21 @

geneva@Romans:16:22 @ I Tertius, who (note:)Wrote it as Paul uttered it.(:note) wrote [this] epistle, salute you in the Lord.

geneva@Romans:16:23 @ Gains mine hoste, & of the whole Church saluteth you. Erastus the steward of the citie saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.

geneva@Romans:16:24 @

geneva@Romans:16:25 @

geneva@Romans:16:26 @ But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, (note:)Offered and exhibited to all nations to be known.(:note) made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

geneva@Romans:16:27 @ To God, I say, only wise, be praise through Iesus Christ for euer. Amen. Written to the Romanes from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe, seruaunt of the Church, which is at Cenchrea.

geneva@2Corinthians:5:15 @ And [that] he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth (note:)See {{See Romans strkjv@6:1-7:25}}(:note) live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

geneva@Galatians:5:17 @ For the (note:)For the flesh dwells even in the regenerated man, but the Spirit reigns, even though not without great strife, as is largely set forth in (Romans. strkjv@7:1-25).(:note) flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

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