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THE MESSAGE
Romans 1:3
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concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh
Concerning his Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of Dauid according to the flesh,
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh,
The Good News is about God's Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. As a man, he was born from the family of David. But through the Spirit of holiness he was declared to be God's Son with great power by rising from the dead.
[the good news] regarding His Son, who, as to the flesh [His human nature], was born a descendant of David [to fulfill the covenant promises],
concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh,
concerning His Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,
This good news is about his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ! As a human, he was from the family of David. But the Holy Spirit proved that Jesus is the powerful Son of God, because he was raised from death.
It concerns his Son — he is descended from David physically;
concerning his Son (come of David's seed according to flesh,
The Good News is about God's Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. As a human, he was born from the family of David, but through the Holy Spirit he was shown to be God's powerful Son when he was raised from death.
Concerning his Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord (which was made of the seede of Dauid according to the flesh,
Concerning his son who was born in the flesh of the seed of the house of David,
It is about his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: as to his humanity, he was born a descendant of David;
concerning his Son, who was born a descendant of David according to the flesh,
concerning His Son who came of the seed of David according to flesh,
concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David,
concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
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concerning his Son, who was born, according to the flesh, of the seed of the house of David,
concerning his Son, (who was born in the flesh, of seed of the house of David,
Of his sonne, which was made of the seede of Dauid after the fleshe:
concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
Concerning his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord,
who, as regards His human descent, belonged to the posterity of David,
which is maad to hym of the seed of Dauid bi the flesch,
concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh.
concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,
concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
The Good News is about his Son. In his earthly life he was born into King David's family line,
It tells of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Who was born as a person in the flesh through the family of King David.
the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
Concerning his Son, - who came to be of the seed of David, according to flesh,
Concerning his Son, who was made to him of the seed of David, according to the flesh,
the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
that make mension of his sonne the which was begotte of the seed of David as pertayninge to the flesshe:
concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh,
off his sonne, which was begotte of ye sede of Dauid after the flesh:
with relation to his son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was of the lineage of David as to his body,
The good news is all about Jesus, God's own son. He comes from the family of David if we're talking about human things.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
his Son: Romans 1:9, Romans 8:2, Romans 8:3, Romans 8:29-32, Psalms 2:7, Matthew 3:17, Matthew 26:63, Matthew 27:43, Luke 1:35, John 1:34, John 1:49, John 3:16-18, John 3:35, John 3:36, John 5:25, John 10:30, John 10:36, John 20:28, John 20:31, Acts 3:13, Acts 8:37, Acts 9:20, 1 Corinthians 1:9, Galatians 4:4, Colossians 1:13-15, 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 1 John 1:3, 1 John 3:8, 1 John 3:23, 1 John 4:9, 1 John 4:10, 1 John 4:15, 1 John 5:1, 1 John 5:5, 1 John 5:10-13, 1 John 5:20, Revelation 2:18
which: 2 Samuel 7:12-16, Psalms 89:36, Psalms 89:37, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 9:7, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Jeremiah 33:15-17, Jeremiah 33:26, Amos 9:11, Matthew 1:1, Matthew 1:6, Matthew 1:16, Matthew 1:20-23, Matthew 9:27, Matthew 12:23, Matthew 15:22, Matthew 22:42-45, Luke 1:31-33, Luke 1:69, Luke 2:4-6, John 7:42, Acts 2:30, Acts 13:22, Acts 13:23, 2 Timothy 2:8
according: Romans 8:3, Romans 9:5, Genesis 3:15, John 1:14, Galatians 4:4, 1 Timothy 3:16, 1 John 4:2, 1 John 4:3, 2 John 1:7
Reciprocal: Genesis 9:9 - General Genesis 22:18 - And in 1 Chronicles 17:11 - I will raise Psalms 18:50 - to his Psalms 89:4 - General Zechariah 12:8 - the house Matthew 1:23 - God Matthew 20:30 - Have Matthew 22:45 - how Mark 10:47 - thou Mark 12:37 - and whence Luke 18:38 - Jesus Luke 20:41 - Christ John 6:42 - Is not John 6:69 - we believe Romans 1:4 - the Son 2 Corinthians 1:19 - the Son Philippians 2:7 - in the 1 Thessalonians 3:11 - and our Lord Hebrews 7:14 - sprang Hebrews 12:9 - fathers Revelation 5:5 - the Root Revelation 22:16 - I am
Cross-References
"Do you know where Light comes from and where Darkness lives So you can take them by the hand and lead them home when they get lost? Why, of course you know that. You've known them all your life, grown up in the same neighborhood with them!
The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.
Light-seeds are planted in the souls of God's people, Joy-seeds are planted in good heart-soil.
Jesus reached out and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be clean." Then and there, all signs of the leprosy were gone. Jesus said, "Don't talk about this all over town. Just quietly present your healed body to the priest, along with the appropriate expressions of thanks to God. Your cleansed and grateful life, not your words, will bear witness to what I have done."
The Life-Light was the real thing: Every person entering Life he brings into Light. He was in the world, the world was there through him, and yet the world didn't even notice. He came to his own people, but they didn't want him. But whoever did want him, who believed he was who he claimed and would do what he said, He made to be their true selves, their child-of-God selves. These are the God-begotten, not blood-begotten, not flesh-begotten, not sex-begotten.
"This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is."
Then he shouted, "Lazarus, come out!" And he came out, a cadaver, wrapped from head to toe, and with a kerchief over his face. Jesus told them, "Unwrap him and let him loose."
You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it! The good, the right, the true—these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.
This, in essence, is the message we heard from Christ and are passing on to you: God is light, pure light; there's not a trace of darkness in him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord,.... These words are in connection with "the Gospel of God", Romans 1:1, and express the subject matter of it, the Son of God, Jesus Christ our Lord; for Christ, as the Son of God, the Saviour of sinners, the only Mediator between God and men, who is Lord both of the dead and living, is the sum and substance of the Gospel: he is here described by his relation to God, his Son, of the same nature with him, equal to him, and distinct from him; by his usual names, "Jesus Christ", the one signifying a "Saviour", the other "anointed", and both, that he was anointed of God to be the Saviour of his people; and by his dominion over the saints our Lord, not merely by creation, but by redemption and grace, and happy is the person that can claim interest in him, as is here done; and by the distinction of natures in him:
which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; this respects Christ in his human nature, who was made flesh, and of a woman; and shows his existence before his incarnation, and the immediate power and hand of God in it; and which was done, not by transmutation of him into flesh, but by an assumption of human nature into union with his divine person: he is said to be made "of the seed of David"; this points out the family from whence he sprung; designs the posterity of David, particularly Mary; has regard to the promise made to David, which God fulfilled; and shows the royal descent of Christ: it is added, "according to the flesh"; that is, according to his human nature; which phrase does not denote the corruption, but the truth of that nature; and supposes that he had another nature, otherwise there would have been no need of this limiting and restrictive clause.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Concerning his Son - This is connected with the first verse, with the word “gospel.” The gospel of God concerning his Son. The design of the gospel was to make a communication relative to his Son Jesus Christ. This is the whole of it. There is no “good news” to man respecting salvation except what comes by Jesus Christ.
Which was made - The word translated “was made” means usually “to be,” or “to become.” It is used, however, in the sense of being born. Thus, Galatians 4:4, “God sent forth his Son made of a woman,” born of a woman. John 8:58, “before Abraham was (born), I am.” In this sense it seems to be used here, who was born, or descended from the seed of David.
Of the seed of David - Of the posterity or lineage of David. He was a descendant of David. David was perhaps the most illustrious of the kings of Israel. The promise to him was that there should not fail a man to sit on this throne; 1 Kings 2:4; 1Ki 8:25; 1 Kings 9:5; 2 Chronicles 6:16. This ancient promise was understood as referring to the Messiah, and hence, in the New Testament he is called the descendant of David, and so much pains is taken to show that he was of his line; Luke 1:27; Matthew 9:27; Matthew 15:22; Matthew 12:23; Matthew 21:9, Matthew 21:15; Matthew 22:42, Matthew 22:45; Joh 7:42; 2 Timothy 2:8. As the Jews universally believed that the Messiah would be descended from David John 7:42, it was of great importance for the sacred writers to make it out clearly that Jesus of Nazareth was of that line and family. Hence, it happened, that though our Saviour was humble, and poor, and obscure, yet he had that on which no small part of the world have been accustomed so much to pride themselves, an illustrious ancestry. To a Jew there could be scarcely any honor so high as to be descended from the best of their kings; and it shows how little the Lord Jesus esteemed the honors of this world, that he could always evince his deep humility in circumstances where people are usually proud; and that when he spoke of the honors of this world, and told how little they were worth, he was not denouncing what was not within his reach.
According to the flesh - The word “flesh,” σάρξ sarx, is used in the Scriptures in a great variety of significations.
(1) It denotes, as with us, the flesh literally of any living being; Luke 24:39, “A spirit hath not flesh and bones,” etc.
(2) The animal system, the body, including flesh and bones, the visible part of man, in distinction from the invisible, or the soul; Acts 2:31, “Neither did his flesh (his body) “see corruption.” 1 Corinthians 5:5; 1 Corinthians 15:39.
(3) The man, the whole animated system, body and soul; Romans 8:3, “In the likeness of sinful flesh. 1 Corinthians 15:50; Matthew 16:17; Luke 3:6.
(4) Human nature. As a man. Thus, Acts 2:30, “God hath sworn with an oath that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh, that is, in his human nature, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne.” Romans 9:5, “whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever.” The same is its meaning here. He was a descendant of David in his human nature, or as a man. This implies, of course, that he had another nature besides his human, or that while he was a man he was also something else; that there was a nature in which he was not descended from David.
That this is its meaning will still further appear by the following observations.
(1) The apostle expressly makes a contrast between his condition according to the flesh, and that according to the spirit of holiness.
(2) The expression “according to the flesh” is applied to no other one in the New Testament but to Jesus Christ. Though the word “flesh” often occurs, and is often used to denote man, yet the special expression, “according to the flesh” occurs in no other connection.
In all the Scriptures it is never said of any prophet or apostle, any lawgiver or king, or any man in any capacity, that he came in the flesh, or that he was descended from certain ancestors according to the flesh. Nor is such an expression ever used any where else. If it were applied to a mere man, we should instantly ask in what other way could he come than in the flesh? Has he a higher nature? Is he an angel, or a seraph? The expression would be unmeaningful. And when, therefore, it is applied to Jesus Christ, it implies, if language has any meaning, that there was a sense in which Jesus was not descended from David. What that was, appears in the next verse.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 1:3. Concerning his Son — That is, the Gospel relates every thing concerning the conception, birth, preaching, miracles, passion, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed-royal, being, as far as his humanity was considered, the son of David, and then the only rightful heir to the Israelitish throne.
