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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:1:7 @ 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.
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:1:15 @ 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.
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.
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.
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?
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:2:18 @ 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:2:27 @ 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.
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.
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:3:20 @ 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.
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;
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.
geneva@Romans:3:28 @ Therefore we conclude, that a man is iustified by faith, without the workes of the Lawe.
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?
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.
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.
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:4:24 @ 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: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:
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:5:21 @ 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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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:7:3 @ 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:7:25 @ 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.
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.
geneva@Romans:8:16 @ The same Spirit beareth witnesse with our spirit, that we are the children of God.
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:8:22 @ 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.
geneva@Romans:8:25 @ But if we hope for that we see not, we doe with patience abide for it.
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.
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.
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?
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: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:9:7 @ 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.
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;)
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,
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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:10:20 @ 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: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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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:11:31 @ 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.
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.
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.
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: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.
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.
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.
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:13:12 @ 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: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.
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:14:15 @ 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.
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:14:23 @ 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:15:6 @ That ye with one minde, and with one mouth may prayse God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ.
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:15:15 @ 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:15:18 @ 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:15:21 @ 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:15:24 @ 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:15:30 @ 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: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:16:5 @ 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:16:16 @ 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:16:18 @ 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@1Corinthians:1:1 @ Paul, (note:)The inscription of the epistle, in which he mainly tries to procure the good will of the Corinthians towards him, yet nonetheless in such a way that he always lets them know that he is the servant of God and not of men.(:note) called [to be] an If he is an apostle, then he must be heard, even though he sometimes sharply reprehends them, seeing he has not his own cause in hand, but is a messenger that brings the commandments of Christ. apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and He has Sosthenes with himself, that this doctrine might be confirmed by two witnesses. Sosthenes [our] brother,
geneva@1Corinthians:1:5 @ That in every thing ye are enriched by him, (note:)He refers to that by name which they abused the most.(:note) in Seeing that while we live here we know but in part, and prophesy in part, this word «all» must be limited by the present state of the faithful: and by «utterance» he does not mean a vain kind of babbling, but the gift of holy eloquence, which the Corinthians abused. all utterance, and [in] all knowledge;
geneva@1Corinthians:1:7 @ So that ye come behind in no gift; (note:)He says along the way that there is no reason why they should be so pleased in those gifts which they had received, seeing that those were nothing in comparison of those which are to be looked for.(:note) waiting for the He speaks of the last coming of Christ. coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
geneva@1Corinthians:1:12 @ Now (note:)The matter I would say to you is this.(:note) this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
geneva@1Corinthians:1:15 @ Lest any should say, that I had baptized into mine owne name.
geneva@1Corinthians:1:18 @ For the (note:)The preaching of Christ crucified, or the type of speech which we use.(:note) preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the It is that in which he declares his marvellous power in saving his elect, which would not so evidently appear if it depended upon any help of man, for if it did man might attribute that to himself which is to be attributed only to the cross of Christ. power of God.
geneva@1Corinthians:1:20 @ Where [is] the wise? where [is] the (note:)Where are you, O you learned fellow, and you that spend your days in turning your books?(:note) scribe? where [is] the You that spend all your time in seeking out the secret things of this world, and in expounding all hard questions: and thus he triumphs against all the men of this world, for there was not one of them that could so much as dream of this secret and hidden mystery. disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
geneva@1Corinthians:1:28 @ And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which (note:)Which in man's judgment are almost nothing.(:note) are not, to bring to To show that they are vain and unprofitable, and worth nothing. {{See Rom_3:31}} nought things that are:
geneva@1Corinthians:1:29 @ That no (note:)«Flesh» is often, as we see, taken for the whole man: and he uses this word «flesh» very well, to contrast the weak and miserable condition of man with the majesty of God.(:note) flesh should glory in his presence.
geneva@1Corinthians:1:30 @ But (note:)Whom he cast down before, now he lifts up, indeed, higher than all men: yet in such a way that he shows them that all their worthiness is outside of themselves, that is, it stands in Christ, and that of God.(:note) of him are ye in Christ Jesus, He teaches that especially and above all things, the Gospel ought not to be condemned, seeing that it contains the principal things that are to be desired, that is, true wisdom, the true way to obtain righteousness, the true way to live honestly and godly, and the true deliverance from all miseries and calamities. who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
geneva@1Corinthians:1:31 @ That, according as it is written, (note:)Let him yield all to God and give him thanks: and so by this place is man's free will beaten down, which the papists so dream about.(:note) He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
geneva@1Corinthians:2:1 @ And (note:)He returns to (1Co_1:17), that is to say, to his own example: confessing that he did not use among them either excellency of words or enticing speech of man's wisdom, but with great simplicity of speech both knew and preached Jesus Christ crucified, humbled and abject, with regard to the flesh.(:note) I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the The Gospel. testimony of God.
geneva@1Corinthians:2:12 @ Now we have received, not the (note:)The Spirit which we have received does not teach us things of this world, but lifts us up to God, and this verse teaches us the opposite of what the papists teach: what faith is, from where it comes, and from what power it originates.(:note) spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; That which he spoke generally, he confines now to those things which God has opened to us of our salvation in Christ: so that no man should separate the Spirit from the preaching of the word and Christ: or should think that those fanciful men are governed by the Spirit of God, who wandering besides the word, thrust upon us their vain imaginations for the secrets of God. that we might This word «know» is taken here in its proper sense for true knowledge, which the Spirit of God works in us. know the things that are freely given to us of God.
geneva@1Corinthians:3:1 @ And (note:)Having declared the worthiness of heavenly wisdom, and of the Gospel, and having generally condemned the blindness of man's mind, now at length he applies it particularly to the Corinthians, calling them carnal, that is, those in whom the flesh still prevails against the Spirit. And he brings a twofold testimony of it: first, because he had proved them to be such, in so much that he dealt with them as he would with ignorant men, and those who are almost babes in the doctrine of godliness, and second, because they showed indeed by these dissensions, which sprang up by reason of the ignorance of the power of the Spirit, and heavenly wisdom, that they had profited very little or nothing.(:note) I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto He calls them carnal, who are as yet ignorant, and therefore to express it better, he calls them «babes». carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.
geneva@1Corinthians:3:7 @ So then, neither is hee that planteth any thing, neither hee that watreth, but God that giueth the increase.
geneva@1Corinthians:3:8 @ And he that planteth, and he that watreth, are one, and euery man shall receiue his wages, according to his labour.
geneva@1Corinthians:3:9 @ For we are (note:)Serving under him: now they who serve under another do nothing by their own strength, but as it is given them of grace, which grace makes them fit for that service. See (1Co_15:10; 2Co_3:6). All the increase that comes by their labour proceeds from God in such a way that no part of the praise of it may be given to the servant.(:note) labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building.
geneva@1Corinthians:3:10 @ According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. (note:)Now he speaks to the teachers themselves, who succeeded him in the church of Corinth, and in this regard to all that were after or will be pastors of congregations, seeing that they succeed into the labour of the apostles, who were planters and chief builders. Therefore he warns them first that they do not persuade themselves that they may build after their own fantasy, that is, that they may propound and set forth anything in the Church, either in matter, or in type of teaching, different from the apostles who were the chief builders.(:note) But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
geneva@1Corinthians:3:14 @ If any mans worke, that he hath built vpon, abide, he shall receiue wages.
geneva@1Corinthians:3:15 @ If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but (note:)He does not take away the hope of salvation from the unskilful and foolish builders, who hold fast the foundation, of which sort were those rhetoricians, rather than the pastors of Corinth. However, he adds an exception, that they must nonetheless suffer this trial of their work, and also abide the loss of their vain labours.(:note) he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
geneva@1Corinthians:3:20 @ And againe, The Lord knoweth that the thoughtes of the wise be vaine.
geneva@1Corinthians:3:22 @ Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the (note:)He passes from the persons to the things themselves, that his argument may be more forcible. Indeed, he ascends from Christ to the Father, to show that we rest ourselves not in Christ himself, in that he is man, but because he carries us up even to the Father, as Christ witnesses of himself everywhere that he was sent by his Father, that by this band we may be all united with God himself.(:note) world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
geneva@1Corinthians:4:1 @ Let (note:)He concludes the duty of the hearers towards their ministers: that they do not esteem them as lords. Yet nonetheless they are to give ear to them, as to those that are sent from Christ. Sent I say to this end and purpose, that they may receive as it were at their hands the treasure of salvation which is drawn out of the secrets of God.(:note) a Every man. man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
geneva@1Corinthians:4:4 @ For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the (note:)I submit myself to the Lord's judgment.(:note) Lord.
geneva@1Corinthians:4:9 @ For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a (note:)He that thinks that Paul and the pope are alike, who lyingly boasts that he is his successor, let him compare the delicacies of the popish court with Paul's state as we see it here.(:note) spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
geneva@1Corinthians:5:1 @ It is (note:)They are greatly to be reprehended who by allowing wickedness, set forth the Church of God to be mocked and scorned by infidels.(:note) reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
geneva@1Corinthians:5:4 @ In the (note:)Calling upon Christ's name.(:note) name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, There is no doubt that the judgment is ratified in heaven, in which Christ himself sits as Judge. with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
geneva@1Corinthians:5:11 @ But nowe I haue written vnto you, that ye companie not together: if any that is called a brother, be a fornicatour, or couetous, or an idolater, or a rayler, or a drunkard, or an extorsioner, with such one eate not.
geneva@1Corinthians:5:13 @ But God iudgeth them that are without. Put away therefore from among your selues that wicked man.
geneva@1Corinthians:6:1 @ Dare (note:)The third question is of civil judgments. Whether it is lawful for one of the faithful to draw another of the faithful before the judgment seat of an infidel? He answers that is not lawful because it is an offence for the faithful to do this, for it is not evil in itself that a matter be brought before the judgment seat, even of an infidel.(:note)As if he said, «Have you become so impudent, that you are not ashamed to make the Gospel a laughing stock to profane men?» any of you, having a matter against another, go to law Before the unjust. before the unjust, He adds that he does not forbid that one neighbour may go to law with another, if need so require, but yet under holy judges. and not before the saints?
geneva@1Corinthians:6:3 @ Knowe ye not that we shall iudge the Angels? howe much more, things that perteine to this life?
geneva@1Corinthians:6:6 @ But a brother goeth to law with a brother, and that vnder the infidels.
geneva@1Corinthians:6:8 @ Nay, yee your selues doe wrong, and doe harme, and that to your brethren.
geneva@1Corinthians:6:9 @ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? (note:)Now he prepares himself to pass over to the fourth treatise of this epistle, which concerns other matters, concerning this matter first, how men may well use a woman or not. And this question has three parts: fornication, matrimony, and a single life. As for fornication, he utterly condemns it. And marriage he commands to some, as a good and necessary remedy for them: to others he leaves is free. And others he dissuades from it, not as unlawful, but as inconvenient, and that not without exception. As for singleness of life (under which also I comprehend virginity) he enjoins it to no man: yet he persuades men to it, but not for itself, but for another respect, neither to all men, nor without exception. And being about to speak against fornication, he begins with a general reprehension of those vices, with which that rich and riotous city most abounded: warning and teaching them earnestly, that repentance is inseparable joined with forgiveness of sins, and sanctification with justification.(:note) Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
geneva@1Corinthians:6:17 @ But hee that is ioyned vnto the Lorde, is one spirite.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:1 @ Now (note:)He teaches concerning marriage that although a single life has its advantages, which he will declare afterwards, yet that marriage is necessary for the avoiding of fornication. But so that neither one man may have many wives, nor any wife many husbands.(:note) concerning the things Concerning those matters about which you wrote to me. whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] Commodious, and (as we say) expedient. For marriage brings many griefs with it, and that by reason of the corruption of our first estate. good for a man not to touch a woman.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:5 @ Defraud ye not one the other, (note:)He adds an exception: unless the one abstain from the other by mutual consent, that they may the better give themselves to prayer, in which nonetheless he warns them to consider what is expedient, lest by this long breaking off as it were from marriage, they are stirred up to incontinency.(:note) except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may Do nothing else. give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:7 @ For I (note:)I wish.(:note) would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:9 @ But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to (note:)So to burn with lust, that either the will yields to the temptation, or else we cannot call upon God with a peaceful conscience.(:note) burn.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:13 @ And the woman which hath an husbande that beleeueth not, if he be content to dwell with her, let her not forsake him.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:22 @ For he that is called in the (note:)He that is in the state of a servant, and is called to be a Christian.(:note) Lord, [being] a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is Christ's servant.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:26 @ I suppose therefore that (note:)To remain a virgin.(:note) this is good for the For the necessity which the saints are daily subject to, who are continually tossed up and down, so that their estate may seem most unfit for marriage, were it not that the weakness of the flesh forced them to it. present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:28 @ But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the (note:)By the «flesh» he understands whatever things belong to this present life, for marriage brings with it many problems. So that he leans more to a single life, not because it is a service more agreeable to God than marriage is, but for those problems which (if it were possible) he would wish all men to be avoid, so that they might give themselves to God alone.(:note) flesh: but I I would your weakness were provided for. spare you.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:29 @ But this I say, brethren, the time [is] (note:)For we are now in the latter end of the world.(:note) short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
geneva@1Corinthians:7:30 @ And they that (note:)By «weeping» the Hebrews understand all adversity, and by «joy», all prosperity.(:note) weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
geneva@1Corinthians:7:31 @ And they that use this (note:)Those things which God gives us here.(:note) world, as not abusing [it]: for the The guise, and shape, and fashion: by which he shows us that there is nothing in this world that continues. fashion of this world passeth away.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:33 @ But he that is married (note:)Those that are married have their minds drawn here and there, and therefore if any man has the gift of continency, it is more advantageous for him to live alone. But those who are married may care for the things of the Lord also. Clement, Strom. 3.(:note) careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:34 @ There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in (note:)Mind.(:note) spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:35 @ And this I speak for your own (note:)He means that he will force no man either to marry or not to marry, but to show them plainly what type of life is most advantageous.(:note) profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:37 @ Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his (note:)Resolved himself.(:note) heart, having no That the weakness of his daughter does not force him, or any other matter, that that he may safely still keep her a virgin. necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:38 @ So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth (note:)Provides better for his children, and that not in just any way, but by reason of such conditions as are mentioned before.(:note) better.
geneva@1Corinthians:7:40 @ But shee is more blessed, if she so abide, in my iudgement: and I thinke that I haue also the Spirite of God.
geneva@1Corinthians:8:1 @ Now (note:)He begins to entreat of another type of indifferent things, that is, things offered to idols, or the use of flesh so offered and sacrificed. And first of all he removes all those things which the Corinthians pretended in using things offered to idols without any respect. First of all they affirmed that this difference of foods was for the unskilful men, but as for them, they knew well enough the benefit of Christ, which causes all these things to be clean to those that are clean. Be it so, Paul says: even if we are all sufficiently instructed in the knowledge of Christ, I say nonetheless that we must not simply rest in this knowledge. The reason is, that unless our knowledge is tempered with charity, it does not only not avail, but also does much hurt, because it is the mistress of pride. Nay, it does not so much as deserve the name of godly knowledge, if it is separate from the love of God, and therefore from the love of our neighbour.(:note) as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we This general word is to be abridged as (1Co_8:7) appears, for there is a type of taunt in it, as we may perceive by (1Co_8:2). all have knowledge. Knowledge Gives occasion of vanity and pride, because it is void of charity. puffeth up, but charity Instructs our neighbour. edifieth.
geneva@1Corinthians:8:2 @ Nowe, if any man thinke that hee knoweth any thing, hee knoweth nothing yet as hee ought to knowe.
geneva@1Corinthians:8:5 @ For though there bee that are called gods, whether in heauen, or in earth (as there be many gods, and many lords)
geneva@1Corinthians:8:6 @ But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, (note:)When the Father is distinguished from the Son, he is named the beginning of all things.(:note) of whom [are] all things, and we We have our being in him. in him; and But as the Father is called Lord, so is the Son therefore God: therefore this word «one» does not regard the persons, but the natures. one Lord Jesus Christ, This word «by» does not signify the instrumental cause, but the efficient: for the Father and the Son work together, which is not so to be taken that we make two causes, seeing they have both but one nature, though they are distinct persons. by whom [are] all things, and we by him.
geneva@1Corinthians:8:9 @ But take heede lest by any meanes this power of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weake.
geneva@1Corinthians:9:1 @ Am (note:)Before he proceeds any further in his purposed matter of things offered to idols, he would show the cause of all this evil, and also take it away. That is, that the Corinthians thought that they did not have to depart from the least amount of their liberty for any man's pleasure. Therefore he propounds himself for an example, and that in a matter almost necessary. And yet he speaks of both, but first of his own person. If (he says) you allege for yourselves that you are free, and therefore will use your liberty, am I not also free, seeing I am an apostle?(:note) I not an apostle? am I not free? He proves his apostleship by the effects, in that he was appointed by Christ himself, and the authority of his function was sufficiently confirmed to him among them by their conversion. And all these things he sets before their eyes, to make them ashamed because they would not in the least way that might be, debase themselves for the sake of the weak, whereas the apostle himself did all the he could to win them to God, when they were utterly reprobate and without God. have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye By the Lord. my work in the Lord?
geneva@1Corinthians:9:2 @ If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the (note:)As a seal by which it sufficiently appears that God is the author of my apostleship.(:note) seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
geneva@1Corinthians:9:5 @ Have we not power to lead about a (note:)One that is a Christian and a true believer.(:note) sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
geneva@1Corinthians:9:9 @ For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for (note:)Was it God's proper intention to provide for oxen, when he made this law? For there is not the smallest thing in the world, but that God has a concern for.(:note) oxen?
geneva@1Corinthians:9:10 @ Either saith hee it not altogether for our sakes? For our sakes no doubt it is written, that he which eareth, should eare in hope, & that he that thresheth in hope, should be partaker of his hope.
geneva@1Corinthians:9:14 @ Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live (note:)Because they preach the Gospel. It follows by this place, that Paul received no living, neither would have any other man receive, by a commodity of masses, or any other such superstitious nonsense.(:note) of the gospel.
geneva@1Corinthians:9:15 @ But I have used none of these things: (note:)He takes away occasion of suspicion by the way, that it might not be thought that he wrote this as though he was demanding his wages that were not payed him. On the contrary, he says, I had rather die, than not to continue in this purpose to preach the Gospel freely. For I am bound to preach the Gospel, seeing that the Lord has given and commanded me this office: but unless I do it willingly and for the love of God, nothing that I do is to be considered worthwhile. If I had rather that the Gospel should be evil spoken of, than that I should not require my wages, then would it appear that I took these pains not so much for the Gospel's sake, as for my gains and advantages. But I say, this would not be to use, but rather to abuse my right and liberty: therefore not only in this thing, but also in all others (as much as I could) I am made all things to all men, that I might win them to Christ, and might together with them be won to Christ.(:note) neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
geneva@1Corinthians:9:18 @ What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ (note:)By taking nothing from those to whom I preach it.(:note) without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
geneva@1Corinthians:9:19 @ For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all men, that I might winne the moe.
geneva@1Corinthians:9:20 @ And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the (note:)The word «law» in this place must be limited to the ceremonial Law.(:note) law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
geneva@1Corinthians:9:21 @ To them that are without Lawe, as though I were without Lawe, (when I am not without Lawe as pertaining to God, but am in the Lawe through Christ) that I may winne them that are without Lawe:
geneva@1Corinthians:9:22 @ To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to (note:)In matters that are indifferent, which may be done or not done with a good conscience. It is as if he said, «I accommodated all customs and manners, that by all means I might save some.»(:note) all [men], that I might by all means save some.
geneva@1Corinthians:9:23 @ And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with (note:)That both I and those to whom I preach the Gospel, may receive fruit by the Gospel.(:note) [you].
geneva@1Corinthians:9:25 @ And every man that striveth for the mastery is (note:)Uses a most excellent and moderate diet.(:note) temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
geneva@1Corinthians:9:26 @ I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre.
geneva@1Corinthians:9:27 @ But I keep under my (note:)The old man which strives against the Spirit.(:note) body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be Or, «reproved». And this word «reproved» is not contrasted with the word «elect», but with the word «approved», when we see someone who is experienced not to be such a one as he ought to be. a castaway.
geneva@1Corinthians:10:1 @ Moreover, (note:)He sets out that which he said, laying before them an example of the horrible judgment of God against those who had in effect the very same pledges of the same adoption and salvation that we have. And yet nonetheless when they gave themselves to idol's feasts, they perished in the wilderness, being horribly and manifoldly punished. Now, moreover and besides that these things are fitly spoken against those who frequented idol's feasts, the same also seems to be alleged to this end and purpose, because many men think that those things are not of such great weight that God will be angry with them if they use them. And so they frequent Christian assemblies and are baptized, and receive the communion, and confess Christ.(:note) brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our Paul says this in respect of the covenant, and not in respect of the persons, except generally. fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
geneva@1Corinthians:10:3 @ And did all eat the (note:)The same that we do.(:note) same spiritual Manna, which was a spiritual meat to the believers, who in faith lay hold upon Christ, who is the true meat. meat;
geneva@1Corinthians:10:4 @ And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that (note:)Of the River and running Rock, who followed the people.(:note) followed them: and that Rock was Did signify Christ as an ordinance, so that together with the sign, there was the thing signified, and the truth itself. For God does not offer a bare sign, but the thing signified by the sign together with it, which is to be received with faith. Christ.
geneva@1Corinthians:10:9 @ Neither let us tempt (note:)To tempt Christ is to provoke him to a combat as it were, which those men do who abuse the knowledge that he has given them, and make it to serve for a cloak for their lusts and wickedness.(:note) Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
geneva@1Corinthians:10:13 @ There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to (note:)Which comes from weakness.(:note) man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also He that would have you tempted for your profit's sake, will make a way for you to escape out of the temptation. make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].
geneva@1Corinthians:10:16 @ The cup of (note:)Of thanksgiving: whereupon, that holy banquet was called «eucharist», which is Greek for thanksgiving.(:note) blessing which we bless, is it not the A most effectual pledge and note of your joining together with Christ, and ingrafting to him. communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
geneva@1Corinthians:10:17 @ For we that are many, are one bread and one body, because we all are partakers of one bread.
geneva@1Corinthians:10:18 @ Behold Israel after the (note:)That is, those who yet observe their ceremonies.(:note) flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices Are consenting and guilty, both of that worship and sacrifice. partakers of the altar?
geneva@1Corinthians:10:19 @ What say I then? that the idole is any thing? or that that which is sacrificed to idoles, is any thing?
geneva@1Corinthians:10:20 @ But I [say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have (note:)Have anything to do with the demons, or enter into that society which is begun in the demon's name.(:note) fellowship with devils.
geneva@1Corinthians:10:28 @ But if any man say vnto you, This is sacrificed vnto idoles, eate it not, because of him that shewed it, and for the conscience (for the earth is the Lords, and all that therein is)
geneva@1Corinthians:10:29 @ Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: (note:)A reason: for we must take heed that our liberty is not spoken of as evil, and that the benefit of God which we ought to use with thanksgiving is not changed into impiety. And this is through our fault, if we choose rather to offend the conscience of the weak, than to yield a little of our liberty in a matter of no importance, and so give occasion to the weak to judge in such sort of us, and of Christian liberty. And the apostle takes these things upon his own person, that the Corinthians may have so much the less occasion to oppose anything against him.(:note) for why is my liberty judged of another [man's] conscience?
geneva@1Corinthians:10:30 @ For if I by (note:)If I may through God's grace eat this meat or that meat, why should I through my fault cause that benefit of God to turn to my blame?(:note) grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
geneva@1Corinthians:10:33 @ Euen as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine owne profite, but the profite of many, that they might be saued.
geneva@1Corinthians:11:14 @ Doeth not nature it selfe teach you, that if a man haue long heare, it is a shame vnto him?
geneva@1Corinthians:11:20 @ When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is (note:)This is a usual metaphor by which the apostle flatly denies that which many did not do well.(:note) not to eat the Lord's supper.
geneva@1Corinthians:11:29 @ For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not (note:)He is said to discern the Lord's body that has consideration of the worthiness of it, and therefore comes to eat of this food with great reverence.(:note) discerning the Lord's body.
geneva@1Corinthians:12:1 @ Now (note:)Now he enters into the third part of this treatise touching the right use of spiritual gifts, in which he gives the Corinthians plainly to understand that they abused them. For they that excelled bragged ambitiously of them, and so robbed God of the praise of his gifts: and having no consideration of their brethren, abused them to a vain display, and so robbed the church of the use of those gifts. On the other side the inferior sort envied the better, and went about to make a departure, so that all the body was as it were scatted and rent in pieces. So then, going about to remedy these abuses he wills them first to consider diligently that they have not these gifts of themselves, but from the free grace and liberality of God, to whose glory they ought to bestow them all.(:note) concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you Ignorant to what purpose these gifts are given to you. ignorant.
geneva@1Corinthians:12:6 @ And there are diversities of (note:)So Paul calls that inward power which comes from the Holy Spirit, and makes men fit for wonderful things.(:note) operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
geneva@1Corinthians:12:10 @ To another the (note:)By «working» he means those great workings of God's mighty power, which pass and excel among his miracles, as the delivery of his people by the hand of Moses: that which he did by Elijah against the priests of Baal, in sending down fire from heaven to consume his sacrifice: and that which he did by Peter, in the matter of Ananias and Sapphira.(:note) working of miracles; to another Foretelling of things to come. prophecy; to another By which false prophets are know from true, in which Peter surpassed Philip in exposing Simon Magus; (Act_8:20). discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
geneva@1Corinthians:12:11 @ But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally (note:)He adds moreover somewhat else, that is, that although these gifts are unequal, yet they are most wisely divided, because the will of the Spirit of God is the rule of this distribution.(:note) as he will.
geneva@1Corinthians:12:24 @ For our comely partes neede it not: but God hath tempered the body together, and hath giuen the more honour to that part which lacked,
geneva@1Corinthians:12:25 @ That there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same (note:)Should bestow their operations and offices to the profit and preservation of the whole body.(:note) care one for another.
geneva@1Corinthians:12:28 @ And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, (note:)The offices of deacons.(:note) helps, He sets forth the order of elders, who were the maintainers of the church's discipline. governments, diversities of tongues.
geneva@1Corinthians:13:1 @ Though (note:)He reasons first of charity, the excellency of which he first shows by this, that without it, all other gifts are as nothing before God. And this he proves partly by an induction, and partly also by an argument taken of the end, for what reason those gifts are given. For, to what purpose are those gifts but to God's glory, and the profit of the Church as is before proved? So that those gifts, without charity, have no right use.(:note) I speak with the tongues of men and of A very earnest amplifying of the matter, as if he said, «If there were any tongues of angels, and I had them, and did not use them to the benefit of my neighbour, it would be nothing else except a vain and prattling type of babbling.» angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a That gives a rude and uncertain sound. tinkling cymbal.
geneva@1Corinthians:13:2 @ And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all (note:)By «faith» he means the gift of doing miracles, and not that faith which justifies, which cannot be void of charity as the other may.(:note) faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
geneva@1Corinthians:13:3 @ And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.
geneva@1Corinthians:13:10 @ But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part, shalbe abolished.
geneva@1Corinthians:14:1 @ Follow (note:)He infers now of what he spoke before: therefore seeing charity is the chiefest of all, before all things set it before you as chief and principal. And so esteem those things as most excellent which profit the greater part of men (such as prophecy, that is to say, the gift of teaching and applying the doctrine: which was condemned in respect of other gifts, although it is the chiefest and most necessary for the Church) and not those who for a show seem to be marvellous, as the gifts of tongues. This was when a man was suddenly endowed with the knowledge of many tongues, which made men greatly amazed and yet of itself was not greatly of any use, unless there was an interpreter.(:note) after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may What prophecy is he shows in the third verse. prophesy.
geneva@1Corinthians:14:3 @ But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men [to] (note:)Which may further men in the study of godliness.(:note) edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
geneva@1Corinthians:14:4 @ He that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the (note:)The company.(:note) church.
geneva@1Corinthians:14:5 @ I would that ye all spake strange languages, but rather that ye prophecied: for greater is hee that prophecieth, then hee that speaketh diuers tongues, except hee expounde it, that the Church may receiue edification.
geneva@1Corinthians:14:9 @ So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words (note:)That fitly utter the matter itself.(:note) easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
geneva@1Corinthians:14:11 @ Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that (note:)As the papists in all their sermons, and they that ambitiously pour out some Hebrew or Greek words in the pulpit before the unlearned people, by this to get themselves a name of vain learning.(:note) speaketh [shall be] a barbarian unto me.
geneva@1Corinthians:14:13 @ Wherefore let him that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue (note:)Pray for the gift of interpretation.(:note) pray that he may interpret.
geneva@1Corinthians:14:15 @ What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the (note:)So that I may be understood by others, and may instruct others.(:note) understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
geneva@1Corinthians:14:19 @ Yet in the church I had rather speak (note:)A very few words.(:note) five words with my understanding, that [by my voice] I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.