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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)

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:

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:1:10 @ 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:1:12 @ 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:1:16 @ 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:1:32 @ 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:2:2 @ 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:2:7 @ 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:2:11 @ 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.

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: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:3:4 @ 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:3:20 @ 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:3:30 @ Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify (note:)The circumcised.(:note) the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

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:4:17 @ (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: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:5:9 @ 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,

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: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.

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:7:11 @ For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and deceiued me, and thereby slewe 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:7:23 @ 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.

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:8:20 @ 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:8:30 @ 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: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:9:3 @ 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:9:7 @ 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:9:29 @ 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: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:11:9 @ 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:11:12 @ 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?

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:11:20 @ 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.

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?

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: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: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: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:14:21 @ 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: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:15:16 @ 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:15:24 @ 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:15:28 @ 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:15:32 @ That I may come vnto you with ioy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

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:16:18 @ 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:16:26 @ 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@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:1:9 @ God [is] (note:)True and constant, who not only calls us, but also gives to us the gift of perseverance.(:note) faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

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:2:4 @ And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, (note:)He turns now to the commendation of his ministry, which he had granted to his adversaries: for his strength and power, which they knew well enough, was so much the more excellent because it had no worldly help behind it.(:note) but in By «demonstration» he means such a proof as is made by reasons both certain and necessary. demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

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:3:2 @ I have fed you with milk, and not with (note:)Substantial meat, or strong meat.(:note) meat: for hitherto ye were not To be fed by me with substantial meat: therefore as the Corinthians grew up in age, so the apostle nourished them by teaching, first with milk, then with strong meat. The difference was only in the manner of teaching. able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.

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:3:15 @ 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:3:17 @ If any man (note:)Defiles it and makes it unclean, being holy: and surely they do defile it, by Paul's judgment, who by fleshly eloquence defile the purity of the Gospel.(:note) defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.

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:4:4 @ 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:4:13 @ Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the (note:)Such as is gathered together by sweeping.(:note) filth of the world, [and are] the offscouring of all things unto this day.

geneva@1Corinthians:4:19 @ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the (note:)By words, he means their fancy and elaborate type of eloquence, which he contrasts with the power of the Holy Spirit.(:note) speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

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:5:10 @ Yet not (note:)If you should utterly abstain from such men's company, you should go out of the world. Therefore I speak of those who are in the very bosom of the Church, who must be brought back into order by discipline, and not of those who are outside of the Church, with whom we must labour by all means possible, to bring them to Christ.(:note) altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

geneva@1Corinthians:6:11 @ And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the (note:)In Jesus.(:note) name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

geneva@1Corinthians:6:14 @ And God hath also raised vp the Lord, and shall raise vs vp by his power.

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:7:28 @ 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:7:30 @ 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:7:38 @ 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: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:8:6 @ 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:9:6 @ Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to (note:)Not live by the works of our hands.(:note) forbear working?

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:9:22 @ 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:9:27 @ 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:10:4 @ 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:10:30 @ 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:11:12 @ For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman: but all things are of God.

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:11:31 @ For if we would (note:)Try and examine ourselves, by faith and repentance, separating ourselves from the wicked.(:note) judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

geneva@1Corinthians:12:9 @ And to another is giuen faith by the same Spirit: and to another the giftes of healing, by the same Spirit:

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:12:13 @ For by one Spirit are we all baptized into (note:)To become one body with Christ.(:note) one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to By one quickening drink of the Lord's blood, we are made partakers of his Spirit alone. drink into one Spirit.

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:13:6 @ Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but (note:)Rejoices at righteousness in the righteous. For by «truth» the Hebrews mean «righteousness».(:note) rejoiceth in the truth;

geneva@1Corinthians:14:6 @ And nowe, brethren, if I come vnto you speaking diuers tongues, what shall I profite you, except I speake to you, either by reuelation, or by knowledge, or by prophecying, or by doctrine?

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:14:15 @ 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.

geneva@1Corinthians:14:21 @ In the (note:)By the «law» he understands the entire scripture.(:note) law it is written, With [men of] other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

geneva@1Corinthians:14:30 @ And if any thing be reueiled to another that sitteth by, let the first holde his peace.

geneva@1Corinthians:14:31 @ For ye may all prophecie one by one, that all may learne, and all may haue comfort.

geneva@1Corinthians:14:40 @ Let all things be done honestly, and by order.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:1 @ Moreover, (note:)The sixth treatise of this epistle, concerning the resurrection: and he uses a transition, or passing over from one matter to another, showing first that he brings no new thing, to the end that the Corinthians might understand that they had begun to swerve from the right course. And next that he does not go about to entreat of a trifling matter, but of another chief point of the Gospel, which if it is taken away, their faith will necessarily come to nothing. And so at the length he begins this treatise at Christ's resurrection, which is the ground and foundation of ours, and confirms it first by the testimony of the scriptures and by the witness of the apostles, and of more than five hundred brethren, and last of all by his own.(:note) brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye In the profession of which you still continue. stand;

geneva@1Corinthians:15:2 @ By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, (note:)Which is very absurd, and cannot be, for they that believe must reap the fruit of faith.(:note) unless ye have believed in vain.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:10 @ But by the grace of God, I am that I am: and his grace which is in me, was not in vaine: but I laboured more aboundantly then they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:22 @ For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be (note:)Will rise by the power of Christ.(:note) made alive.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:28 @ And when all things shall be subdued unto him, (note:)Not because the Son was not subject to his Father before, but because his body, that is to say, the Church which is here in distress, and not yet wholly partaker of his glory, is not yet fully perfect: and also because the bodies of the saints which are in the graves, will not be glorified until the resurrection. But Christ as he is God, has us subject to him as his Father has, but as he is Priest, he is subject to his Father together with us. Augustine, book 1, chap. 8, of the trinity.(:note) then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that By this high type of speech is set forth an incomprehensible glory which flows from God, and will fill all of us, as we are joined together with our head, but yet in such a way that our head will always preserve his preeminence. God may be all in all.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:31 @ I protest by your (note:)As though he said, «I die daily, as all the miseries I suffer can well witness, which I may truly boast of, that I have suffered among you.»(:note) rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:1 @ Now concerning (note:)Collections in ancient times were made by the appointment of the apostle appointment to be the first day of the week, on which day the manner was then to assemble themselves.(:note) the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:2 @ Upon the (note:)Which in times past was called Sunday, but now is called the Lord's day.(:note) first [day] of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as [God] hath That every man bestow according to the ability that God has blessed him with. prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:3 @ And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by [your] (note:)Which you will give to them to carry.(:note) letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:9 @ For a great door and (note:)Very fit and convenient to do great things by.(:note) effectual is opened unto me, and [there are] many adversaries.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:16 @ That ye (note:)That you honour and revere them, be obedient to them, and be content to be ruled by them, as you properly should, seeing that they have bestowed themselves and their goods, and this to help you with them.(:note) submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with [us], and laboureth.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:22 @ If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema (note:)By these words are meant the severest type of curse and excommunication that was among the Jews: and the words are as much as to say, «As our Lord comes». So that his meaning may be this, «Let him be accursed even to the coming of the Lord», that is to say, to the day of his death, even for ever.(:note) Maranatha.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:24 @ My loue be with you all in Christ Iesus, Amen. The first Epistle to the Corinthians, written from Philippi, and sent by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus.

geneva@2Corinthians:1:1 @ Paul, (note:)See the declaration of such salutations in the former epistles.(:note) an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

geneva@2Corinthians:1:4 @ Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, (note:)The Lord comforts us to this end and purpose, that we may so much the more surely comfort others.(:note) that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

geneva@2Corinthians:1:5 @ For as the (note:)The miseries which we suffer for Christ, or which Christ suffers in us.(:note) sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

geneva@2Corinthians:1:16 @ And to passe by you into Macedonia, and to come againe out of Macedonia vnto you, and to be led foorth towarde Iudea of you.

geneva@2Corinthians:2:2 @ For if I make you sorie, who is he then that shoulde make me glad, but ye same which is made sorie by me?

geneva@2Corinthians:2:8 @ Wherefore I beseech you that ye would (note:)That at my entreaty you would declare by the consent of the whole church, that you take him again as a brother.(:note) confirm [your] love toward him.

geneva@2Corinthians:2:14 @ Now thanks [be] unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the (note:)He alludes to the anointing of the priests, and the incense of the sacrifices.(:note) savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

geneva@2Corinthians:3:3 @ [Forasmuch as ye are] (note:)The apostle says this wisely, that by little and little he may come from the commendation of the person to the matter itself.(:note) manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ Which I took pains to write as it were. ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Along the way he sets the power of God against the ink with which epistles are commonly written, to show that it was accomplished by God. living God; He alludes along the way to the comparison of the outward ministry of the priesthood of Levi with the ministry of the Gospel, and the apostolical ministry, which he handles afterward more fully. not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

geneva@2Corinthians:3:7 @ But if the ministration of death, written (note:)Imprinted and engraved: so that by this place we may plainly perceive that the apostle speaks not of the ceremonies of the Law, but of the ten commandments.(:note) [and] engraven in stones, was This word «glorious» indicates a brightness, and a majesty which was in Moses physically, but in Christ spiritually. glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away:

geneva@2Corinthians:3:8 @ How shall not the (note:)By which God offers, indeed, and gives the Spirit, not as a dead thing, but a living Spirit, working life.(:note) ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

geneva@2Corinthians:3:11 @ For if that which is (note:)The Law, indeed, and the ten commandments themselves, together with Moses, are all abolished, if we consider the ministry of Moses apart by itself.(:note) done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.

geneva@2Corinthians:3:17 @ Now the (note:)Christ is that Spirit who takes away that covering, by working in our hearts, to which also the Law itself called us, though in vain, because it speaks to dead men, until the Spirit makes us alive.(:note) Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.

geneva@2Corinthians:4:2 @ But have renounced the (note:)Subtilty and every type of deceit which men hunt after, as it were dens and lurking holes, to cover their shameless dealings with.(:note) hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God This is that which he called in the former chapter, making merchandise of the word of God. deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

geneva@2Corinthians:4:6 @ For God, (note:)Who made with his word alone.(:note) who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the That being enlightened by God, we should in the same way give that light to others. light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

geneva@2Corinthians:4:11 @ For we which (note:)Who live that life, that is, by the Spirit of Christ, among so many and so great miseries.(:note) live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our Subject to that miserable condition. mortal flesh.

geneva@2Corinthians:4:14 @ Knowing that he which hath raised vp the Lord Iesus, shall raise vs vp also by Iesus, and shall set vs with you.

geneva@2Corinthians:4:16 @ For which cause we faint not; (note:)He adds as it were a triumphant song, that he is outwardly afflicted, but inwardly he profits daily: and he is not bothered by all the miseries that may be sustained in this life, in comparison of that most constant and eternal glory.(:note) but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is Gathers new strength so that the outward man is not overcome with the miseries which come freshly one after another, being maintained and upheld with the strength of the inward man. renewed day by day.

geneva@2Corinthians:5:1 @ For (note:)Taking occasion by the former comparison, he compares this miserable body as it is in this life, to a frail and brittle tabernacle. And contrasts this with the heavenly tabernacle, which he calls that sure and everlasting condition of this same body glorified in heaven. And this is so, he says, in that we are addicted to this tabernacle, but also with sobs and sighs desire rather that tabernacle. And so this place concerning the glory to come is put within the treatise of the dignity of the ministry, just as it also was in the beginning of the second chapter.(:note) we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

geneva@2Corinthians:5:7 @ (For we walk by (note:)Faith, of those things which we hope for, not having God presently in our physical view.(:note) faith, not by sight:)

geneva@2Corinthians:5:21 @ For he hath made him [to be] (note:)A sinner, not in himself, but by imputation of the guilt of all our sins to him.(:note) sin for us, who Who was completely void of sin. knew no sin; that we might be made the Righteous before God, and that with righteousness which is not fundamental in us, but being fundamental in Christ, God imputes it to us through faith. righteousness of God in him.

geneva@2Corinthians:6:7 @ By the (note:)Preaching of the Gospel.(:note) word of truth, by the Power to work miracles, and to subdue the wicked. power of God, by the Uprightness. armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

geneva@2Corinthians:6:8 @ By honour, and dishonour, by euill report, and good report, as deceiuers, and yet true:

geneva@2Corinthians:7:1 @ Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the (note:)Both of body and soul, that by this means the sanctification may be perfect, consisting in both the parts of the flesh.(:note) flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

geneva@2Corinthians:7:6 @ Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are (note:)Whose hearts are cast down, and are very much worn out.(:note) cast down, comforted us by the With those things which Titus told me of you at his coming, that is, how fruitfully you read over my letters. And moreover and besides that, I am exceedingly refreshed with his presence. coming of Titus;

geneva@2Corinthians:7:7 @ And not by his comming onely, but also by the consolation wherewith he was comforted of you, when he tolde vs your great desire, your mourning, your feruent minde to me warde, so that I reioyced much more.

geneva@2Corinthians:7:9 @ Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to (note:)In that this sorrow did you much good in leading you to amend your obscene behaviour and sins.(:note) repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

geneva@2Corinthians:7:13 @ Therefore we were comforted, because ye were comforted: but rather we reioyced much more for the ioye of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

geneva@2Corinthians:8:1 @ Moreover, (note:)The sixth part of this epistle containing different exhortations to stir up the Corinthians to liberality, with which the poverty of the church of Jerusalem might be helped at an appropriate time. And first of all he sets before them the example of the churches of Macedonia, which otherwise were brought by great misery to extreme poverty, so that the Corinthians should follow them.(:note) brethren, we do you to wit of the The benefit that God bestowed upon the Corinthians. grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

geneva@2Corinthians:8:4 @ Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the (note:)He calls that «gift» which other men would have called a burden. And this verse is to be explained by (2Co_8:6).(:note) gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

geneva@2Corinthians:8:14 @ But by an (note:)That as now in your abundance you help others with a share of your goods, so should others in the same way bestow some of their goods upon you.(:note) equality, [that] now at this time your abundance [may be a supply] for their want, that their abundance also may be [a supply] for your want: that there may be equality:

geneva@2Corinthians:8:19 @ And not [that] only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this (note:)These alms which are bestowed for the relief of the church of Jerusalem.(:note) grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and [declaration of] your ready mind:

geneva@2Corinthians:8:20 @ Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this (note:)In this plentiful liberality of the churches, which is committed to our trust.(:note) abundance which is administered by us:

geneva@2Corinthians:8:23 @ Whether [any do enquire] of Titus, [he is] my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our (note:)The two companions of Titus.(:note) brethren [be enquired of, they are] the messengers of the churches, [and] the By whom the glory of Christ is set forth. glory of Christ.

geneva@2Corinthians:8:24 @ Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the (note:)All the churches in whose presence you are in will be witnesses of this your godly behaviour, for these men are the messengers whom they have chosen by common consent, and sent to you.(:note) churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

geneva@2Corinthians:9:1 @ For (note:)He wisely answers the suspicion which the Corinthians might conceive, as though the apostle in urging them so carefully was doubting of their good will. Therefore he witnesses that he does it not to teach them that they ought to help the saints, seeing that he had become surety for them to the Macedonians. But only to stir those up who were labouring by themselves, to the end that all things might both be in a better readiness, and also be more plentiful.(:note) as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

geneva@2Corinthians:9:4 @ Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same (note:)The word which he uses signifies a mind so steady and established that it cannot be moved by any terror or fear.(:note) confident boasting.

geneva@2Corinthians:9:8 @ And God [is] able to make (note:)All the bountiful liberality of God.(:note) all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to To help others by all means possible, in doing them good in their needs. every good work:

geneva@2Corinthians:9:13 @ Whiles by the (note:)By this proof of your liberality in this helping of them.(:note) experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your In showing with one consent that you acknowledge that Gospel alone which you have willingly submitted yourselves to, declaring by this that you agree with the church of Jerusalem. professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for [your] liberal distribution unto them, and unto all [men];

geneva@2Corinthians:10:1 @ Now (note:)He returns to the defence of his apostleship, but in such a way that he uses his authority in his defence: for he warns them earnestly and gravely, using also terrible threatenings, to show themselves to be those who are able to be instructed. And he reviles certain proud men who made no better account of him, than of a bragging proud man, in that he used to be sharp against them when he was absent, because they saw no great majesty in him after the manner of men; and besides, he had proved his gentleness, even though in his absence he had written to them sharply. Therefore first of all he professes that he was gentle and moderate, but after the example of Christ: but if they continue still to despise his gentleness, he protests to them that he will show indeed how far they are deceived, who judge the office of an apostle in the same way that they judge worldly offices, that is, according to the outward appearance.(:note) I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and That nature which is inclined to mercy, rather than to rigor of justice. gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

geneva@2Corinthians:10:5 @ Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, (note:)An amplification of this spiritual power, which conquers the enemies in such a way, be they ever so crafty and mighty, that it brings some of them by repentance to Christ, and justly avenges others that are stubbornly obstinate, separating them from the others who allow themselves to be ruled.(:note) and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

geneva@2Corinthians:10:11 @ Let such one thinke this, that such as wee are in woorde by letters, when we are absent, such wil we be also in deede, when we are present.

geneva@2Corinthians:10:15 @ Not boasting of things (note:)As though God had divided the whole world among the apostles to be governed.(:note) without [our] measure, [that is], of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

geneva@2Corinthians:11:1 @ Would (note:)He grants that in a way he is playing the fool in this exalting of things, but he adds that he does it against his will for their profit, because he sees them deceived by certain vain and crafty men, through the craft and subtilty of Satan.(:note) to God ye could bear with me a little in [my] folly: and indeed bear with me.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:3 @ But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be (note:)This passage is to be noted against those who hate the plain and pure simplicity of the scriptures, in comparison of the elegance and fluency of man's eloquence.(:note) corrupted from the simplicity that is in Which is proper for those who are in Christ. Christ.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:12 @ But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they (note:)Paul's adversaries sought all occasions they could to be equal to him. And therefore seeing they had rather live off the Corinthians then preach to them for nothing, they sought another occasion, that is, to make Paul take something. And if he had done this, then they hoped by this means to be equal to him. For they made such a show of zeal and knowledge, and set it forth with such a flattering type of eloquence, that some of them even despised Paul. But he shows that all this is nothing but frivolities and pretensions.(:note) glory, they may be found even as we.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:14 @ And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of (note:)By light is meant the heavenly glory, of which the angels are partakers.(:note) light.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:4 @ How that he was caught up into (note:)So the Greeks name that which we call a park, that is to say, a place where trees are planted, and wild beasts kept. And those that translated the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Greek, called the garden of Eden by this name, into which Adam was put immediately after his creation, as a most delicate and pleasant place. And from this it occurred that the blessed seat of the glory of God is called by that name.(:note) paradise, and heard Which no man is able to utter. unspeakable words, which it is not Which the saints themselves are not by any means able to express, because it is God himself. This is the way that Clement of Alexandria explains this passage, Strom. 5. lawful for a man to utter.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:9 @ And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. (note:)He concludes that he will only set his miseries against the vain braggings of the false apostles, and with this also excuses himself, because by their troublesome braggings he was forced to speak as much of those things as he did. That is, because if his apostleship were subverted, his doctrine would necessarily fall.(:note) Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may That I might feel the power of Christ more and more: for the weaker that our tabernacles are, the more does Christ's power appear in them. rest upon me.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:11 @ I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: (note:)Again he makes the Corinthians witnesses of those things by which God had sealed his apostleship among them, and again he declares by certain arguments how far he is from all covetousness, and also how he is affectionate towards them.(:note) for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:12 @ Truly the (note:)The arguments by which it may well appear that I am indeed an apostle of Jesus Christ.(:note) signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:17 @ Did I pill you by any of them whom I sent vnto you?

geneva@2Corinthians:13:4 @ For though he was crucified through (note:)Regarding that base form of a servant which he took upon him when he abased himself.(:note) weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

geneva@2Corinthians:13:14 @ {\cf2 (13:13)} The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, and the loue of God, and the communion of the holy Ghost be with you all, Amen. The seconde Epistle to the Corinthians, written from Philippi, a citie in Macedonia, and sent by Titus and Lucas.

geneva@Galatians:1:1 @ Paul, (note:)A salutation which puts in a few words the sum of the apostle's doctrine, and also immediately from the beginning shows the gravity appropriate for the authority of an apostle, which he had to maintain against the false apostles.(:note) an apostle, (not He shows who is the author of the ministry generally: for in this the whole ministry agrees, that whether they are apostles, or shepherds, or teachers, they are appointed by God. of men, neither by He mentions that man is not the instrumental cause: for this is a special right of the apostles, to be called directly from Christ. man, but by Christ no doubt is man, but he is also God, and head of the Church, and in this respect to be exempted out of the number of men. Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

geneva@Galatians:1:12 @ For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught [it], but by the (note:)This passage is about an extraordinary revelation, for otherwise the Son revealed his Gospel only by his Spirit, even though by the ministry of men, which Paul excludes here.(:note) revelation of Jesus Christ.

geneva@Galatians:1:15 @ But when it pleased God, who (note:)He speaks of God's everlasting predestination, by which he appointed him to be an apostle, of which he makes three distinctions: the everlasting council of God, his appointing from his mother's womb, and his calling. And we see that there is no mention at all of foreseen works.(:note) separated me from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace,

geneva@Galatians:1:16 @ To reveal his Son (note:)To me, and this is a type of speech which the Hebrews use, by which it shows us that this gift comes from God.(:note) in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately He says this because it might be objected that he was indeed called by Christ in the way, but afterward was instructed by the apostles and others (whose names, as I said before, the false apostles abused to destroy his apostleship), as though he delivered another Gospel than they did, and as though he were not of their number, who are to be credited without exception. Therefore, Paul answers that he began immediately after his calling to preach the Gospel at Damascus and in Arabia, and was not from that time in Jerusalem except for fifteen days, when he saw only Peter and James. And afterwards, he began to teach in Syria and Cilicia, with the consent and approval of the churches of the Jews, who knew him only by name: so far off was it, that he was there instructed by men. I conferred not with With any man in the world. flesh and blood:

geneva@Galatians:1:22 @ For I was vnknowen by face vnto the Churches of Iudea, which were in Christ.

geneva@Galatians:2:1 @ Then (note:)Now he shows how he agrees with the apostles, with whom he grants that he conferred concerning his Gospel which he taught among the Gentiles, fourteen years after his conversion. And they permitted it in such a way, that they did not force his companion Titus to be circumcised, although some tormented themselves in this, who traitorously laid wait against him, but in vain. Neither did they add the least amount that might be to the doctrine which he had preached, but rather they gave to him and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, and acknowledged them as apostles appointed by the Lord to the Gentiles.(:note) fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with [me] also.

geneva@Galatians:2:2 @ And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, (note:)Unfruitful, for as touching his doctrine, Paul does not doubt it, but because there were certain reports being spread about him, that he was of another opinion than the rest of the apostles were, which thing might have hindered the course of the Gospel. Therefore he labours to remedy this dangerous situation.(:note) in vain.

geneva@Galatians:2:4 @ And that because of (note:)Who by deceit and counterfeit holiness crept in among the faithful.(:note) false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

geneva@Galatians:2:5 @ To whom we gave place by (note:)By submitting ourselves to them, and betraying our own liberty.(:note) subjection, no, not for an hour; that the The true and sincere doctrine of the Gospel, which remained safe from being corrupted with any of these men's false doctrines. truth of the gospel might continue with Under the Galatian's name, he understands all nations. you.

geneva@Galatians:2:6 @ But by them which seemed to be great, I was not taught (whatsoeuer they were in time passed, I am nothing the better: God accepteth no mans person) for they that are the chiefe, did adde nothing to me aboue that I had.

geneva@Galatians:2:8 @ (For he that was mightie by Peter in the Apostleship ouer the circumcision, was also mightie by me toward the Gentiles)

geneva@Galatians:2:13 @ And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was (note:)By example rather than by judgment.(:note) carried away with their dissimulation.

geneva@Galatians:2:14 @ But when I saw that they walked not (note:)Literally, «with a right foot», which he sets against halting and hypocrisy, which is a backwards state.(:note) uprightly according to the He calls the truth of the Gospel, both the doctrine itself, and also the use of doctrine, which we call the practice. truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why He says they were forced who lived as Jews by Peter's example. compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

geneva@Galatians:2:16 @ Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith (note:)In Jesus Christ.(:note) of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall No man, and in this word «flesh» there is a great force, by which is meant that the nature of man is utterly corrupt. no flesh be justified.

geneva@Galatians:2:19 @ For I through the law am dead to the (note:)The Law that terrifies the conscience brings us to Christ, and he alone causes us to indeed die to the Law, because by making us righteous, he takes away from us the terror of conscience. And by sanctifying us, he causes the mortifying of lust in us, so that it cannot take such occasion to sin by the restraint which the Law makes, as it did before; (Rom_7:10-11).(:note) law, that I might live unto God.

geneva@Galatians:2:20 @ I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not (note:)The same that I was before.(:note) I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the In this mortal body. flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

geneva@Galatians:3:1 @ O (note:)The third reason or argument taken of those gifts of the Holy Spirit, with which they were endued from heaven after they had heard and believed the gospel by Paul's ministry. And seeing that they were so evident to all men's eyes, that they were as it were graphic images, in which they might behold the truth of the doctrine of the Gospel, just as much as if they had beheld with their eyes Christ himself crucified, in whose only death they ought to have their trust, he marvels how it could be that they could be so bewitched by the false apostles.(:note) foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, Christ was laid before you so notably and so plainly that you had a graphic image of him as it were represented before your eyes, as if he had been crucified before you. before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

geneva@Galatians:3:2 @ This only would I learn of you, Received ye the (note:)Those spiritual graces and gifts, which were a seal as it were to the Galatians that the Gospel which was preached to them was true.(:note) Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of Of the doctrine of faith. faith?

geneva@Galatians:3:20 @ Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one, (note:)A taking away of an objection, lest any man might say that sometimes by consent of the parties which have made a covenant, something is added to the covenant, or the former covenants are broken. This, the apostle says, does not come to pass in God, who is always one, and the very same, and like himself.(:note) but God is one.

geneva@Galatians:3:22 @ But the (note:)By this word «scripture» he means the Law.(:note) scripture hath concluded All mankind, and whatever comes from mankind. all under sin, that the In every one of these words, there lies an argument against the merits of works: for all these words, promise, faith, Christ, might be given, to believers, are against meritorious works, and not one of them can be included as a meritorious work. promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

geneva@Galatians:3:24 @ Wherefore the Lawe was our scholemaster to bring vs to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.

geneva@Galatians:3:29 @ And if ye be Christes, then are ye Abrahams seede, and heires by promes.

geneva@Galatians:4:1 @ Now (note:)He declares by another twofold similitude, that which he said before concerning the keeper and schoolmaster. For, he says, the Law (that is, the whole government of God's house according to the Law) was as it were a tutor or overseer appointed for a time. And when that protection and overseeing which was but for a time is ended, we would at length come to be at our own liberty, and would live as children, and not as servants. Moreover, he shows along the way, that the governance of the Law was as it were the basics, and as certain principles, in comparison with the doctrine of the Gospel.(:note) I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

geneva@Galatians:4:3 @ Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the (note:)The Law is called elements, because by the Law God instructed his Church as it were by elements, and afterward poured out his Holy Spirit most plentifully in the time of the Gospel.(:note) elements of the world:

geneva@Galatians:4:9 @ But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and (note:)They are called impotent and beggarly ceremonies, being considered apart by themselves without Christ: and again, by that means they gave good testimony that they were beggars in Christ, for when men fall back from Christ to ceremonies, it is nothing else but to cast away riches and to follow beggary.(:note) beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire By going backward. again to be in bondage?

geneva@Galatians:4:22 @ For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, one by a seruant, and one by a free woman.

geneva@Galatians:4:23 @ But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the (note:)As all men are, and by the common course of nature.(:note) flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by By virtue of the promise, which Abraham laid hold on for himself and his true seed, for otherwise Abraham and Sara were past the begetting and bearing of children. promise.

geneva@Galatians:4:29 @ But as then he that was born after the (note:)By the common course of nature.(:note) flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the By the virtue of God's promise and after a spiritual manner. Spirit, even so [it is] now.

geneva@Galatians:5:4 @ Christ is (note:)That is, as he himself expounds it afterward, «ye are fallen from grace.»(:note) become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are That is, seek to be justified by the Law, for indeed no man is justified by the Law. justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

geneva@Galatians:5:13 @ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; (note:)The third part of this epistle, showing that the right use of Christian liberty consists of this, that being delivered and set at liberty from the slavery of sin and the flesh, and being obedient to the Spirit, we should through love help each other to mature in their salvation.(:note) only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

geneva@Galatians:5:18 @ And if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not vnder the Lawe.

geneva@Galatians:5:22 @ But the (note:)Therefore they are not the fruits of free will, but only as far forth as our will is made free by grace.(:note) fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

geneva@Galatians:5:25 @ If we (note:)If we are indeed endued with the quickening Spirit, who causes us to die to sin, and live to God, let us show it in our deeds, that is, by holiness of life.(:note) live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

geneva@Galatians:6:1 @ Brethren, (note:)He condemns persistent and pressing harshness, because brotherly reprehensions ought to be moderated and tempered by the spirit of meekness.(:note) if a man be Through the malice of the flesh and the devil. overtaken in a fault, ye which are Who are upheld by the power of God's Spirit. spiritual, Labour to fill up that which is lacking in him. restore such an one in the This is a metaphor which the Hebrews use, showing by this that all good gifts come from God. spirit of meekness; He touches the problem, for they are commonly the most severe judges who forget their own weaknesses. considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

geneva@Ephesians:1:1 @ Paul, (note:)The inscription and salutation, of which we have spoken in the former epistles.(:note) an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the This is the definition of the saints, showing what they are. faithful in Christ Jesus:

geneva@Ephesians:2:1 @ And (note:)He declares again the greatness of God's good will by comparing that miserable state in which we are born, with that dignity unto which we are advanced by God the Father in Christ. So he describes that condition in such a way that he says, that with regard to spiritual motions we are not only born half dead, but wholly and altogether dead.(:note) you [hath he quickened], who were See (Rom_6:2). So then he calls those dead who are not regenerated: for as the immortality of those who are damned is not life, so this knitting together of body and soul is properly not life, but death in those who are not ruled by the Spirit of God. dead in He shows the cause of death, that is, sins. trespasses and sins;

geneva@Ephesians:2:5 @ Euen when we were dead by sinnes, hath quickened vs together in Christ, by whose grace ye are saued,

geneva@Ephesians:2:6 @ And hath raised [us] up (note:)That is, as he adds afterwards, in Christ, for as yet this is not fulfilled in us, but only in our head by whose Spirit we have begun to die to sin, and live to God, until that work is fully brought to an end. And yet the hope is certain, for we are as sure of that which we look for, as we are of that which we have already received.(:note) together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus:

geneva@Ephesians:2:8 @ For by (note:)So then, grace, that is to say, the gift of God, and faith, stand with one another, to which two it is contrary to be saved by ourselves, or by our works. Therefore, what do those mean who would join together things of such contrary natures?(:note) grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:

geneva@Ephesians:2:16 @ And that he might reconcile both unto God in (note:)He alludes to the sacrifices of the Law, which represented that true and only sacrifice.(:note) one body by the cross, having For he destroyed death by death, and fastened it as it were to the cross. slain the enmity thereby:

geneva@Ephesians:2:18 @ For (note:)Christ is the gate as it were, by whom we come to the Father, and the Holy Spirit is as it were, our guiding man who leads us.(:note) through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

geneva@Ephesians:2:22 @ In whom ye also are built together to be the habitation of God by the Spirit.

geneva@Ephesians:3:1 @ For (note:)He maintains his apostleship against the offence of the cross, upon which he also makes an argument to confirm himself, affirming that he was not only appointed an apostle by the mercy of God, but was also appointed particularly to the Gentiles. And this was to call them everywhere to salvation, because God had so determined this from the beginning, although he deferred a great while the manifestation of his counsel.(:note) this cause I Paul, These words, «the prisoner of Jesus Christ», are taken passively, that is to say, «I, Paul, am cast into prison for maintaining the glory of Christ.» the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

geneva@Ephesians:3:3 @ That is, that God by reuelation hath shewed this mysterie vnto me (as I wrote aboue in fewe wordes,

geneva@Ephesians:3:4 @ Whereby when ye reade, ye may knowe mine vnderstanding in the mysterie of Christ)

geneva@Ephesians:3:5 @ Which in (note:)He does not mean that no one knew of the calling of the Gentiles before, but because very few knew of it. And those that did know it, such as the prophets, had it revealed to them very obscurely, and by means of symbols.(:note) other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

geneva@Ephesians:3:6 @ That the Gentiles should be inheriters also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the Gospel,

geneva@Ephesians:3:7 @ Whereof I am made a minister by the gift of the grace of God giuen vnto me through the effectuall working of his power.

geneva@Ephesians:3:9 @ And to make cleare vnto all men what the felowship of the mysterie is, which from the beginning of the world hath bene hid in God, who hath created all things by Iesus Christ,

geneva@Ephesians:3:12 @ By whom we haue boldenes and entrance with confidence, by faith in him.

geneva@Ephesians:3:16 @ That he would grant you, according to the (note:)According to the greatness of his mercy.(:note) riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the See (Rom_7:22). inner man;

geneva@Ephesians:3:17 @ That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in (note:)With which God loves us, which is the root of our election.(:note) love,

geneva@Ephesians:3:21 @ Be prayse in the Church by Christ Iesus, throughout all generations for euer, Amen.

geneva@Ephesians:4:1 @ I therefore, (note:)Another part of the epistle, containing precepts of the Christian life, the sum of which is this, that every man behave himself as it is fitting for so excellent a grace of God.(:note) the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the By this is meant the general calling of the faithful, which is this, to be holy as our God is holy. vocation wherewith ye are called,

geneva@Ephesians:4:16 @ From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the (note:)Of Christ, who with regard to the soul, empowers all the members.(:note) effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh Such increase as is fit for the body to have. increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in Charity is the knitting of the limbs together. love.

geneva@Ephesians:4:18 @ Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the (note:)By which God lives in them.(:note) life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

geneva@Ephesians:4:19 @ Who being (note:)Void of all judgment.(:note) past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with They strove to surpass one another, as though there were some gain to be gotten by it. greediness.

geneva@Ephesians:4:21 @ If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, (note:)As they have learned who acknowledge Christ indeed, and in good earnest.(:note) as the truth is in Jesus:

geneva@Ephesians:4:32 @ And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, (note:)An argument taken from the example of Christ, most grave and strong, both for the pardoning of those injuries which have been done to us by our greatest enemies, and much more for having consideration of the miserable, and using moderation and gentle behaviour towards all men.(:note) even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

geneva@Ephesians:5:4 @ Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor (note:)Jests which men cast at one another: that no lightness is seen, nor evil example given, nor any offence made by evil words or backbiting.(:note) jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

geneva@Ephesians:5:9 @ (For the fruit of the (note:)By whose power we are made light in the Lord.(:note) Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

geneva@Ephesians:5:11 @ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather (note:)Make them open to all the world, by your good life.(:note) reprove [them].

geneva@Ephesians:5:30 @ For we are members of his body, (note:)He alludes to the making of the woman, which signifies our union with Christ, which is accomplished by faith, but is signified in the ordinance of the Lord's supper.(:note) of his flesh, and of his bones.

geneva@Ephesians:6:15 @ And your feet shod with the (note:)The preparation of the Gospel may be as it were shoes to you: and it is very fitly called the Gospel of peace, because, seeing we have to go to God through most dangerous ranks of enemies, this may encourage us to go on bravely, in that you know by the doctrine of the Gospel, that we are travelling to God who is at peace with us.(:note) preparation of the gospel of peace;

geneva@Ephesians:6:24 @ Grace [be] with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ (note:)Or to immortality, to life everlasting.(:note) in sincerity. Amen. «[To [the] Ephesians written from Rome, by Tychicus.]»

geneva@Philippians:1:1 @ Paul (note:)The Paul's point in writing this epistle, is to strengthen and encourage the Philippians by all means possible, not to faint, but more than that, to go forward. And first of all he commends their former deeds, to exhort them to go forward: which thing he says he fully hopes they will do, and that by the testimony of their abundant charity. But in the meantime he refers all things to the grace of God.(:note) and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the By the bishops are meant both the pastors who have the dispensation of the word, and the elders that govern: and by deacons are meant those that were stewards of the treasury of the Church, and had to look after the poor. bishops and deacons:

geneva@Philippians:1:11 @ Being filled with the (note:)If righteousness is the tree, and good works the fruits, then the papists are truly deceived indeed, when they say that works are the cause of righteousness.(:note) fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

geneva@Philippians:1:14 @ And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the (note:)The Gospel is called the word, to set forth the excellence of it.(:note) word without fear.

geneva@Philippians:1:19 @ For I knowe that this shall turne to my saluation through your prayer, and by the helpe of the Spirit of Iesus Christ,

geneva@Philippians:1:26 @ That ye may more aboundantly reioyce in Iesvs Christ for me, by my comming to you againe.

geneva@Philippians:2:1 @ If (note:)A most earnest request to remove all those things, by which that great and special consent and agreement is commonly broken, that is, contention and pride, by which it comes to pass that they separate themselves from one another.(:note) [there be] therefore any consolation in Any Christian comfort. Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any If any seeking of inward love. bowels and mercies,

geneva@Philippians:2:7 @ But made himself of (note:)He brought himself from all things, as it were to nothing.(:note) no reputation, and took upon him the By taking our manhood upon him. form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

geneva@Philippians:3:1 @ Finally, (note:)A conclusion of those things which have been said before, that is, that they go forward cheerfully in the Lord.(:note) my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. A preface to the next admonition that follows, to take good heed and beware of false apostles, who join circumcision with Christ, (that is to say, justification by works, with free justification by faith), and beat into men's head the ceremonies which are abolished, instead of true exercises of godliness and charity. And he calls them dogs, as profane barkers, and evil workmen, because they neglected true works and did not teach the true use of them. To be short, he calls them concision, because in urging circumcision, they cut off themselves and others from the Church. To write the Which you have often times heard from me. same things to you, to me indeed [is] not grievous, but for you [it is] safe.

geneva@Philippians:3:5 @ Circumcised the eight day, of the kinred of Israel, of the tribe of Beniamin, an Ebrewe of the Ebrewes, by the Lawe a Pharise.

geneva@Philippians:3:9 @ And be found in (note:)In Christ: for those that are found outside of Christ are subject to condemnation.(:note) him, That is, to be in Christ, to be found not in a man's own righteousness, but clothed with the righteousness of Christ imputed to him. not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

geneva@Philippians:3:11 @ If by any means I might attain unto the (note:)To everlasting life, which follows the resurrection of the saints.(:note) resurrection of the dead.

geneva@Philippians:3:12 @ Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am (note:)For we run only as far forth as we are laid hold on by Christ, that is, as God gives us strength, and shows us the way.(:note) apprehended of Christ Jesus.

geneva@Philippians:3:16 @ Neuerthelesse, in that whereunto wee are come, let vs proceede by one rule, that wee may minde one thing.

geneva@Philippians:3:21 @ Who shall change our vile bodie, that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious body, according to the working, whereby hee is able euen to subdue all things vnto him selfe.

geneva@Philippians:4:7 @ And the (note:)That great quietness of mind, which God alone gives in Christ.(:note) peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your He divides the mind into the heart, that is, into that part which is the seat of the will and affections, and into the higher part, by which we understand and reason about matters. hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

geneva@Philippians:4:23 @ The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all, Amen. Written to the Philippians from Rome, and sent by Epaphroditus.

geneva@Colossians:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the (note:)By the free bountifulness of God.(:note) will of God, and Timotheus [our] brother,

geneva@Colossians:1:16 @ For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] (note:)He sets forth the angels with glorious names, so that by the comparison of most excellent spirits, we may understand how far surpassing the excellency of Christ is, in whom alone we have to content ourselves with, and let go of all angels.(:note) thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

geneva@Colossians:1:24 @ Who now rejoice in my sufferings for (note:)For our profit and benefit.(:note) you, and fill up The afflictions of the Church are said to be Christ's afflictions, by reason of that fellowship and knitting together that the body and the head have with one another. And this is not because there is any more need to have the Church redeemed, but because Christ shows his power in the daily weakness of his own, and that for the comfort of the whole body. that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

geneva@Colossians:3:1 @ If (note:)Another part of this epistle, in which he takes occasion by reason of those vain exercises, to show the duty of a Christian life: which is an ordinary thing with him, after he has once set down the doctrine itself.(:note) ye then Our renewing or new birth, which is accomplished in us by being partakers of the resurrection of Christ, is the source of all holiness, out of which various streams or rivers afterwards flow. be For if we are partakers of Christ, we are carried as it were into another life, where we will need neither meat nor drink, for we will be similar to the angels. risen with Christ, The end and mark which all the duties of Christian life aim at is to enter into the kingdom of heaven, and to give ourselves to those things which lead us there, that is, to true godliness, and not to those outward and physical things. seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

geneva@Colossians:3:9 @ Lie not one to another, (note:)A definition of our new birth taken from the parts of it, which are the putting off of the old man, that is to say, of the wickedness which is in us by nature, and the restoring and repairing of the new man, that is to say, of the pureness which is given us by grace. However, both the putting off and the putting on are only begun in us in this present life, and by certain degrees finished, the one dying in us by little and little, and the other coming to the perfection of another life, by little and little.(:note) seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

geneva@Colossians:3:16 @ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in (note:)By «psalms» he means all godly songs which were written upon various occasions, and by «hymns», all such as contain the praise of God, and by «spiritual songs», other more special and artful songs which were also in praise of God, but they were made fuller of music.(:note) psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

geneva@Colossians:3:17 @ And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the (note:)Call upon the name of Christ when you do it, or do it to Christ's praise and glory.(:note) name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

geneva@Colossians:4:18 @ The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bands. Grace be with you, Amen. Written from Rome to the Colossians, and sent by Tychicus, and Onesimus.

geneva@1Thessalonians:1:10 @ And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from (note:)This word «the» is not put here without reason: and by «wrath» is meant that revenge and punishment with which the Lord will in time judge the world in his terrible wrath.(:note) the wrath to come.

geneva@1Thessalonians:2:16 @ Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to (note:)Until that wickedness of theirs which they have by inheritance as it were of their fathers, has grown so great, that the measure of their iniquity being filled, God may come forth to wrath.(:note) fill up their sins alway: for the The judgment of God who was angry, which indeed appeared shortly after in the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, where many fled even out of various provinces, when it was besieged. wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

geneva@1Thessalonians:3:3 @ That no man should be moved by these afflictions: (note:)The will of God, who calls his own on this condition, to bring them to glory by affliction, is a most sure remedy against all afflictions.(:note) for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

geneva@1Thessalonians:4:1 @ Furthermore (note:)Various exhortations, the foundation of which is this, to be mindful of those things which they have heard from the apostle.(:note) then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would That you labour to excel more and more, and daily surpass yourselves. abound more and more.

geneva@1Thessalonians:4:2 @ For ye knowe what commaundements we gaue you by the Lord Iesus.

geneva@2Thessalonians:1:7 @ And to you who are troubled rest (note:)He strengthens and encourages them also along the way by this means, that the condition both of this present state and the state to come, is common to him with them.(:note) with us, A most glorious description of the second coming of Christ, to be set against all the miseries of the godly, and the triumphs of the wicked. when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

geneva@2Thessalonians:1:10 @ When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe ((note:)They are considered as children of God by the faith which they have in the Gospel, which is preached to them by the apostles.(:note) because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:1 @ Now (note:)The second part of the epistle, containing an excellent prophecy of the state of the Church, which will be from the apostles time to the latter day of judgment.(:note) we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our If we think earnestly upon that unmeasurable glory which we will be partakers of with Christ, it will be an excellent remedy for us against wavering and impatience, so that neither the glistening of the world will allure us, nor the dreadful sight of the cross dismay us. gathering together unto him,

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:3 @ Let no man deceive you by any means: (note:)The apostle foretells that before the coming of the Lord, there will be a throne set up completely contrary to Christ's glory, in which that wicked man will sit, and transfer all things that appertain to God to himself: and many will fall away from God to him.(:note) for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and By speaking of one, he singles out the person of the tyrannous and persecuting antichrist. that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:14 @ Whereunto he called you by our (note:)By our preaching.(:note) gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

geneva@2Thessalonians:3:2 @ And that we may be delivered from (note:)Who do not do or care about their duty.(:note) unreasonable and wicked men: It is no wonder that the Gospel is hated by so many, seeing that faith is a rare gift of God. Nonetheless, the Church will never be destroyed by the multitude of the wicked, because it is grounded and stayed upon the faithful promise of God. for all [men] have not faith.

geneva@2Thessalonians:3:11 @ For we hear that there are some which walk among (note:)How great a fault idleness is, he declares in that God created no man in vain or to no purpose, neither is there any to whom he has not allotted as it were a certain position and place. From which it follows, that the order which God has appointed is troubled by the idle, indeed broken, which is great sin and wickedness.(:note) you disorderly, working not at all, He reprehends a vice, which is joined with the former, upon which follows an infinite sort of mischiefs: that is, that there are none more busy in other men's matters, than they who neglect their own. but are busybodies.

geneva@1Timothy:1:1 @ Paul, (note:)First of all, he affirms his own free vocation and also Timothy's, that the one might be confirmed by the other: and in addition he declares the sum of the apostolic doctrine, that is, the mercy of God in Christ Jesus apprehended by faith, the end of which is yet hoped for.(:note) an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, [which is] our hope;

geneva@1Timothy:1:2 @ Unto Timothy, [my] own son in the faith: Grace, (note:)There is as much difference between mercy and grace, as is between the effect and the cause: for grace is that free good will of God, by which he chose us in Christ, and mercy is that free justification which follows it.(:note) mercy, [and] peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

geneva@1Timothy:1:14 @ And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant (note:)He proves this change by the effects, because he who was a profane man, has become a believer: and he that did most outrageously persecute Christ, burns now in love towards him.(:note) with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

geneva@1Timothy:1:19 @ Holding (note:)Wholesome and sound doctrine.(:note) faith, and a good conscience; Whoever does not keep a good conscience, loses also by little and little, the gift of understanding. And this he proves by two most lamentable examples. which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

geneva@1Timothy:1:20 @ Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; (note:)Those who fall from God, and his religion, are not to be endured in the Church, but rather ought to be excommunicated.(:note) whom I have Cast out of the Church, and so delivered them to Satan. delivered unto Satan, that they may That by their pain they might learn how serious it is to blaspheme. learn not to blaspheme.

geneva@1Timothy:2:2 @ For kings, and [for] all that are in authority; (note:)An argument taken of the end: that is, because magistrates are appointed to this end, that men might peaceably and quietly live in all godliness and honesty: and therefore we must commend them especially to God, that they may faithfully execute so necessary an office.(:note) that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and This word includes every type of duty, which is to be used by men in all their affairs. honesty.

geneva@1Timothy:2:7 @ Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, [and] lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in (note:)Faithfully and sincerely: and by faith he means wholesome and sound doctrine, and by truth, an upright and sincere handling of it.(:note) faith and verity.

geneva@1Timothy:2:12 @ But I suffer not a woman to teach, (note:)The first argument, why it is not lawful for women to teach in the congregation, because by this means they would be placed above men, for they would be their masters: and this is against God's ordinance.(:note) nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

geneva@1Timothy:3:6 @ Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the (note:)Lest by reason that he is advanced to that position, he takes occasion to be proud, which will undo him, and so he fall into the same condemnation that the devil himself has fallen into.(:note) condemnation of the devil.

geneva@1Timothy:4:1 @ Now (note:)He contrasts that true doctrine, with false opinions, which he foretells that certain ones who shall fall away from God and his religion, will bring in by the suggestion of Satan, and so that a great number will give ear to them.(:note) the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the From the true doctrine of God. faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

geneva@1Timothy:4:14 @ Despise not the gift that is in thee, which was giuen thee by prophecie with the laying on of the hands of the companie of the Eldership.

geneva@1Timothy:4:16 @ Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both (note:)Faith is by hearing, and hearing by preaching: and therefore the ministers of the word are so said to save themselves and others, because in them the Lord has put the word of reconciliation.(:note) save thyself, and them that hear thee.

geneva@1Timothy:6:1 @ Let (note:)He adds also rules for the servant's duty towards their masters: upon which matter there were no doubt many questions asked by those who took occasion by the Gospel to trouble the normal manner of life. And this is the first rule: let servants that have come to the faith and have the unfaithful for their masters, serve them nonetheless with great faithfulness.(:note) as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, The reason: lest God should seem by the doctrine of the Gospel to stir up men to rebellion and all wickedness. that the name of God and [his] doctrine be not blasphemed.

geneva@1Timothy:6:4 @ He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and (note:)Strivings about words, and not about matter: and by words he means all those things which do not have substance in them, and by which we can reap no profit.(:note) strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

geneva@1Timothy:6:15 @ Which in his times he shall shew, [who is] the (note:)He combines many words together for one purpose: by which he confirms the power of God, which if we trust steadfastly in, we will not be moved out of our position.(:note) blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

geneva@2Timothy:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, (note:)Sent of God to preach that life which he promised in Christ Jesus.(:note) according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

geneva@2Timothy:1:10 @ But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to (note:)Has caused life and immortality to appear.(:note) light through the gospel:

geneva@2Timothy:2:21 @ If a man therefore (note:)By these words is meant the execution of the matter, and not the cause: for in that we purge ourselves, it is not to be attributed to any free will that is in us, but to God, who freely and wholly works in us, a good and an effectual will.(:note) purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, [and] prepared unto every good work.

geneva@2Timothy:3:5 @ Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: (note:)We must not tarry with those men who resist the truth not from simple ignorance, but from a perverse mind, (which thing appears by their fruits which he graphically displays here); rather, we must turn away from them.(:note) from such turn away.

geneva@2Timothy:4:17 @ Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the (note:)Of Nero.(:note) lion.

geneva@Titus:1:1 @ Paul, (note:)He vouches his apostleship (not for Titus, but for the Cretian's sake) both by the testimony of his outward calling, and by his consent in which he agrees with all the elect from the beginning of the world.(:note) a A minister, as Christ himself, in his office of minister and head of the Prophets, is called a servant; (Isa_43:10). servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's Of those whom God has chosen. elect, The faith in which all the elect agree, is the true and sincere knowledge of God for this purpose, that worshipping God correctly, they may at length obtain everlasting life according to the promise of God, who is true, which promise was exhibited in Christ in due time according to his eternal purpose. and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

geneva@Titus:1:16 @ They professe that they know God, but by works they deny him, and are abominable & disobedient, and vnto euery good worke reprobate.

geneva@Titus:3:5 @ Not by works of (note:)Literally, «of works which are done in righteousness»: and this passage fully refutes the doctrine of meritorious works.(:note) righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Which the power of the Holy Spirit works. Holy Ghost;

geneva@Titus:3:7 @ That we, being iustified by his grace, should be made heires according to the hope of eternall life.

geneva@Philemon:1:6 @ That the (note:)By fellowship of faith, he means those duties of charity which are given to the saints, and flow from a productive faith.(:note) communication of thy faith may become effectual by the That by this means all men may perceive how rich you are in Christ, that is, in faith, charity, and all bountifulness. acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

geneva@Philemon:1:7 @ For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the (note:)Because you did so dutifully and cheerfully refresh the saints, that they conceived inwardly a marvellous joy: for by this word {(bowels)} is meant not only the inward feeling of wants and miseries that men have of one another's state, but also that joy and comfort which enters into the very bowels, as though the heart were refreshed and comforted.(:note) bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

geneva@Philemon:1:25 @ The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with your spirit, Amen. Written from Rome to Philemon, and sent by Onesimus a seruant.

geneva@Hebrews:1:1 @ God, who at (note:)The first part of the general proposition of this epistle the son of God is indeed that prophet or teacher, who has actually now performed that which God after a sort and in shadows signified by his prophets, and has fully revealed his Father's will to the world.(:note) sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, The purpose of this epistle, is to show that Jesus Christ the Son of God both God and man is that true eternal and only Prophet, King and High Priest, that was shadowed by the figures of the old law, and is now indeed exhibited of whom the whole Church ought to be taught, governed and sanctified.

geneva@Hebrews:1:2 @ Hath in these (note:)So that the former declaration made by the prophets was not complete, and nothing must be added to this latter.(:note) last days spoken unto us by [his] That one Son is God and man. Son, The second part of the same statement: The same Son is appointed by the Father to be our king and Lord, by whom also he made all things: and in whom only he sets forth his glory, yea and himself also to be under obligation to us, who upholds and supports all things by his will and pleasure. whom he hath appointed Possessor and equal partner of all things with the Father. heir of all things, by whom also he made the That is, whatever has been at any time, is, or shall be. worlds;

geneva@Hebrews:1:3 @ Who being the (note:)He in whom the glory and majesty of the Father shines, who is otherwise infinite, and cannot be under obligation.(:note) brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his His Father's person. person, and Sustains, defends and cherishes. upholding all things by the word of his power, The third part of the same proposition: The same Son executed the office of the High Priest in offering up himself, and is our only and most mighty Mediator in heaven. when he had by himself purged our sins, This shows that the savour of that his sacrifice is not only most acceptable to the Father, but also is everlasting, and furthermore how far this High Priest surpasses all the other high priests. sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

geneva@Hebrews:1:9 @ Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated (note:)This type of speech in which the Jews use contrasting phrases, has great force in it.(:note) iniquity; therefore God, [even] thy God, hath In that, that the word became flesh, by sending the Holy Spirit on him without measure. anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy For he is the head and we are his members. fellows.

geneva@Hebrews:1:14 @ Are they not all (note:)By that name by which we commonly call princes messengers, he here calls the spirits.(:note) ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

geneva@Hebrews:2:1 @ Therefore (note:)Now pausing to show to what end and purpose all these things were spoken, that is, to understand by the excellency of Christ above all creatures, that his doctrine, majesty and priesthood, is most perfect, he uses an exhortation taken from a comparison.(:note) we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which He makes himself a hearer. we have heard, lest at any time we They are said to let the word run out, who do not hold it securely and remember the word when they have heard it. should let [them] slip.

geneva@Hebrews:2:2 @ For if the (note:)The Law which appointed punishment for the offenders: and which Paul says was given by angels, (Gal_3:19) and by Stephen also in, (Act_7:53).(:note) word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

geneva@Hebrews:2:3 @ How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; (note:)If the neglect and disobedience of the word spoken by angels was not left unpunished, much less will it be tolerated if we neglect the gospel which the Lord of angels preached, and was confirmed by the voice of the apostles, and with so many signs and wonders from heaven, and especially with great and mighty working of the Holy Spirit.(:note) which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by By the apostles. them that heard [him];

geneva@Hebrews:2:15 @ And deliver them who through fear of (note:)By {(death)} you must understand here, that death which is joined with the wrath of God, as it must be if it is without Christ, and there can be nothing devised that is more miserable.(:note) death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

geneva@Hebrews:2:18 @ For in that he himself hath suffered being (note:)Was tried and urged to wickedness by the devil.(:note) tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

geneva@Hebrews:3:6 @ But Christ as a son over his own house; (note:)He applies the former doctrine to his purpose, exhorting all men by the words of David to hear the Son speak, and to give full credit to his words, seeing that otherwise they cannot enter into that eternal rest.(:note) whose That is, Christ's. house are we, if we hold fast the He calls confidence the excellent effect of faith (by which we cry Abba, that is, Father), and to confidence he adds hope. confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

geneva@Hebrews:3:16 @ For some when they heard, prouoked him to anger: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

geneva@Hebrews:4:1 @ Let vs feare therefore, least at any time by forsaking the promes of entring into his rest, any of you should seeme to be depriued.

geneva@Hebrews:4:7 @ Againe he appointed in Dauid a certaine day, by To day, after so long a time, saying, as it is sayd, This day, if ye heare his voyce, harden not your hearts.

geneva@Hebrews:5:8 @ Though he were a Son, yet (note:)He learned in deed what it is to have a Father, whom a man must obey.(:note) learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

geneva@Hebrews:5:14 @ But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their (note:)All their power by which they understand and judge.(:note) senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

geneva@Hebrews:6:1 @ Therefore leaving the (note:)The first principle of Christian religion, which we call the catechism.(:note) principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; Certain principles of a catechism, which comprehend the sum of the doctrine of the gospel, were given in few words and briefly to the poor and unlearned, that is, the profession of repentance and faith in God. The articles of this doctrine were required from those who were not yet members of the Church on the days appointed for their baptism. Of those articles, two are by name recited: the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. (Ed.) not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

geneva@Hebrews:6:16 @ For men verely sweare by him that is greater then themselues, and an othe for confirmation is among them an ende of all strife.

geneva@Hebrews:6:17 @ Wherein God, willing more (note:)More than was needed, were it not for the wickedness of men who do not believe God, even though he swears.(:note) abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:

geneva@Hebrews:6:18 @ That by two immutable things, wherein it is vnpossible that God should lye, we might haue strong consolation, which haue our refuge to lay holde vpon that hope that is set before vs,

geneva@Hebrews:7:2 @ To whom also Abraham gaue the tithe of all things: who first is by interpretation King of righteousnes: after that, he is also King of Salem, that is, King of peace,

geneva@Hebrews:7:5 @ And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they (note:)Were begotten by Abraham.(:note) come out of the loins of Abraham:

geneva@Hebrews:7:19 @ For the Law made nothing perfite, but the bringing in of a better hope made perfite, whereby we drawe neere vnto God.

geneva@Hebrews:7:21 @ But this is made with an othe by him that said vnto him, The Lord hath sworne, and will not repent, Thou art a Priest for euer, after the order of Melchi-sedec)

geneva@Hebrews:7:22 @ By so much is Iesus made a suretie of a better Testament.

geneva@Hebrews:7:25 @ Wherefore he is (note:)He is fit and sufficient.(:note) able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

geneva@Hebrews:7:27 @ Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: (note:)Another argument, which nonetheless he handles afterward: The Levitical priests offered sacrifice after sacrifice, first for themselves, and then for the people. Christ offered not for himself, but for others, not sacrifices, but himself, not repeatedly, but once. This should not seem strange, he says, for they are weak, but this man is consecrated as an everlasting Priest, and that by an oath.(:note) for That sacrifice which he offered. this he did It was done so that it need not be repeated or offered again any more. once, when he offered up himself.

geneva@Hebrews:7:28 @ For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the (note:)The commandment of God which was bound with an oath.(:note) word of the oath, Another argument taken by the time: Former things are taken away by the later. which Exhibited. was since the law, [maketh] the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

geneva@Hebrews:8:5 @ Who serue vnto the paterne and shadowe of heauenly things, as Moses was warned by God, whe he was about to finish the Tabernacle. See, saide hee, that thou make all thinges according to the paterne, shewed to thee in the mount.

geneva@Hebrews:8:9 @ Not like the Testament that I made with their fathers, in the day that I tooke them by the hand, to leade them out of the land of Egypt: for they continued not in my Testament, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

geneva@Hebrews:9:22 @ And almost all things are by the Law purged with blood, and without sheading of blood is no remission.

geneva@Hebrews:9:28 @ So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of (note:)Thus the general promise is restrained to the elect only: and we have to seek the testimony of our election, not in the secret counsel of God, but in the effects that our faith works, and so we must climb up from the lowest step to the highest, there to find such comfort as is most certain, and shall never be moved.(:note) many; Shortly by the way he sets Christ as Judge, partly to terrify those who are not trusting in the only sacrifice of Christ once made, and partly to keep the faithful in their duty, so that they will not go back. and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

geneva@Hebrews:10:1 @ For (note:)He prevents a private objection. Why then were those sacrifices offered? The apostle answers, first concerning the yearly sacrifice which was the solemnest of all, in which (he says) there was made every year a remembrance again of all former sins. Therefore that sacrifice had no power to sanctify: for to what purpose should those sins which are purged be repeated again, and why should new sins come to be repeated every year, if those sacrifices abolished sin?(:note) the law having a shadow of good things to Of things which are everlasting, which were promised to the fathers, and exhibited in Christ. come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

geneva@Hebrews:10:8 @ Aboue, when he sayd, Sacrifice and offring, and burnt offrings, and sinne offrings thou wouldest not haue, neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the Lawe)

geneva@Hebrews:10:10 @ By the which wil we are sanctified, euen by the offring of the body of Iesus Christ once made.

geneva@Hebrews:10:20 @ By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his (note:)So Christ's flesh shows us the Godhead as if it were under a veil, For otherwise we could not stand the brightness of it.(:note) flesh;

geneva@Hebrews:10:33 @ Partly, whilst ye were made a (note:)You were brought forth to be shamed.(:note) gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became In taking their miseries, to be your miseries. companions of them that were so used.

geneva@Hebrews:11:1 @ Now (note:)An excellent description of faith by the effects, because it represents things which are but yet in hope, and sets as it were before our eyes things that are invisible.(:note) faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

geneva@Hebrews:11:9 @ By faith he abode in the land of promes, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promes.

geneva@Hebrews:11:12 @ Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as (note:)As unlikely to bear children, as if he had been dead.(:note) dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

geneva@Hebrews:11:13 @ These all died in (note:)In faith, which they had while they lived, and followed, them even to their grave.(:note) faith, not having received the This is the figure metonymy, for the things promised. promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and For the patriarchs were given to profess their religion by building an altar and calling on the name of the Lord when they received the promises. embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

geneva@Hebrews:11:17 @ By faith Abraham, when he was (note:)Tried by the Lord.(:note) tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the Although the promises of life were made in that only begotten son Isaac, yet he appointed him to die; and so against hope he believed in hope. promises offered up his only begotten [son],

geneva@Hebrews:11:19 @ Accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even from the dead; from (note:)From which death.(:note) whence also he received him in For there was not the true and very death of Isaac, but as it were the death, by means of which he seemed also to have risen again. a figure.

geneva@Hebrews:11:24 @ By faith Moses when he was come to age, refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter,

geneva@Hebrews:11:27 @ By faith he forsooke Egypt, and feared not the fiercenes of the king: for he endured, as he that sawe him which is inuisible.

geneva@Hebrews:11:36 @ And others haue bene tryed by mockings and scourgings, yea, moreouer by bondes and prisonment.

geneva@Hebrews:12:1 @ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, (note:)An applying of the former examples, by which we ought to be stirred up to run the whole race, casting away all hindrances and impediments.(:note) let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which For sin besieges us on all sides, so that we cannot escape. doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

geneva@Hebrews:12:11 @ Now no chastising for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but, grieuous: but afterwarde, it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse, vnto them which are thereby exercised.

geneva@Hebrews:12:17 @ For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no (note:)There was no room left for his repentance: and it appears by the effects, what his repentance really was, for when he left his father's presence, he threatened to kill his brother.(:note) place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

geneva@Hebrews:13:2 @ Be not forgetfull to intertaine strangers: for thereby some haue receiued Angels into their houses vnwares.

geneva@Hebrews:13:9 @ Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. (note:)He speaks to those who mixed an external worship and especially the difference of meats with the gospel which he clearly condemns as repugnant to the benefit of Christ.(:note) For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with By this one form which concerns the difference of clean and unclean meat, we have to understand all the ceremonial worship. meats, which have not profited them that have been Who observed the difference of them superstitiously. occupied therein.

geneva@Hebrews:13:11 @ For the bodies of those beastes whose blood is brought into the Holy place by the high Priest for sinne, are burnt without the campe.

geneva@Hebrews:13:25 @ Grace be with you all, Amen. Written to the Hebrewes from Italie, and sent by Timotheus.

geneva@James:1:14 @ But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away by his owne concupiscence, and is entised.

geneva@James:1:15 @ Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth (note:)By sin, in this place, he means actual sin.(:note) sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

geneva@James:1:17 @ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the (note:)From him who is the fountain and author of all goodness.(:note) Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither He goes on in the metaphor: for the sun by his many and various kinds of turning, makes hours, days, months, years, light and darkness. shadow of turning.

geneva@James:1:21 @ Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with (note:)By meekness he means modesty, and anything that is contrary to a haughty and proud spirit.(:note) meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

geneva@James:2:1 @ My (note:)The first: charity which proceeds from a true faith, cannot exist with the respecting of people: which he proves plainly by using the example of those who, while having reproach or disdain for the poor, honour the rich.(:note) brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of For if we knew what Christ's glory is, and esteemed it as we should, there would not be the respecting of people that there is. glory, with respect of persons.

geneva@James:2:4 @ Are ye not then partial in (note:)Have you not within yourselves judged one man to be preferred over another (which you should not do) by means of this?(:note) yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

geneva@James:2:7 @ Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are (note:)Literally, «which is called upon of you».(:note) called?

geneva@James:2:18 @ Yea, (note:)No, by this every man will be eaten up with pride.(:note) a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

geneva@James:2:21 @ Was not Abraham our father (note:)Was he not by his works known and found to be justified? For he speaks not here of the causes of justification, but by what effects we may know that a man is justified.(:note) justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

geneva@James:2:22 @ Seest thou how faith (note:)Was effectual and fruitful with good works.(:note) wrought with his works, and by works was faith made That the faith was declared to be a true faith, through works. perfect?

geneva@James:3:5 @ Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. (note:)On the contrary part he shows how great inconveniences arise by the excesses of the tongue, throughout the whole world, to the end that men may so much the more diligently give themselves to control it.(:note) Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

geneva@James:4:1 @ From (note:)He advances the same argument, condemning certain other causes of wars and contentions, that is, unbridled pleasures and uncontrolled lusts, by their effects, for so much as the Lord does worthily make them come to no effect, so that they bring nothing to them in whom they reside, but incurable torments.(:note) whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?

geneva@James:4:2 @ Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, (note:)He reprehends them by name, who are not ashamed to make God the minister and helper of their lusts and pleasures, in asking things which are either in themselves unlawful or being lawful, ask for them out of wicked motives and uses.(:note) because ye ask not.

geneva@James:5:4 @ Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the (note:)The Lord who is more mighty than ye are, hath heard them.(:note) ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

geneva@1Peter:1:3 @ Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a (note:)Everlasting hope.(:note) lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

geneva@1Peter:1:12 @ Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost (note:)He alludes to the prophecy of Joel, which was exhibited upon the day of Pentecost, in the Apostles, as it were in the first fruits of the Holy Spirit, which this same prophecy Peter declares; (Act_2:6)(:note) sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

geneva@1Peter:1:21 @ Which by his meanes doe beleeue in God that raised him from the dead, and gaue him glorie, that your faith and hope might bee in God,

geneva@1Peter:1:23 @ Being borne anewe, not of mortall seede, but of immortall, by the woorde of God, who liueth and endureth for euer.

geneva@1Peter:2:1 @ Wherefore (note:)Having laid for the foundation the Spirit of God effectually working by the word, and having built on it three virtues which are the grounds of all Christian actions, that is, faith, hope, and charity: now he proceeds to a general exhortation the first part being that we flee all show of both secret and open malice.(:note) laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

geneva@1Peter:2:5 @ Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, (note:)Continuing, he compares us now to priests, placed for this purpose in the spiritual temple, that we should serve him with a spiritual worship, that is, with holiness and righteousness: but as the temple, so is the priesthood built upon Christ, in who alone all our spiritual offerings are accepted.(:note) an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

geneva@1Peter:2:14 @ Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent him (note:)The second argument taken from the end of this order, which is not only most profitable, but also very necessary: seeing that that this means virtue is rewarded, and vice punished, in which the peacefulness and happiness if this life consists.(:note) for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

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