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THE MESSAGE
Romans 1:5
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Through him we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the Gentiles,
By whom we haue receiued grace and Apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his Name,
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles in behalf of His name,
Through Christ, God gave me the special work of an apostle, which was to lead people of all nations to believe and obey. I do this work for him.
It is through Him that we have received grace and [our] apostleship to promote obedience to the faith and make disciples for His name's sake among all the Gentiles,
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for His name's sake,
through whom we received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for the sake of His name,
Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.
Jesus was kind to me and chose me to be an apostle, so that people of all nations would obey and have faith.
Through him we received grace and were given the work of being an emissary on his behalf promoting trust-grounded obedience among all the Gentiles,
by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,
Through Christ, God gave me the special work of an apostle—to lead people of all nations to believe and obey him. I do all this to honor Christ.
By whom we haue receiued grace and Apostleship (that obedience might be giuen vnto ye faith) for his Name among al ye Gentiles,
And by him we have received grace and apostleship among all the Gentiles, so that they may hear the faith which is under his name,
Through him God gave me the privilege of being an apostle for the sake of Christ, in order to lead people of all nations to believe and obey.
through whom we have received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name,
by whom we received grace and apostleship to obedience of faith among all the nations, for His name's sake,
through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:
through whom we received grace and apostleship, to obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake.
Through him we received grace and a commission as an apostle to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for the sake of his name.Acts 6:7; 9:15; Romans 12:3; 15:15; 16:26; 1 Corinthians 15:10; Galatians 1:15; 2:9; Ephesians 3:8;">[xr]
by whom we have received grace and apostleship among all nations, that they should become obedient unto the faith of his name:
by whom we have received grace, and a mission among all the Gentiles, to the end that they may obey the faith in his name;
By whom we haue receaued grace and apostleship, that obedience myght be geuen vnto the fayth in his name, among all heathen.
through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake:
through whom we received grace and apostleship, to obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake.
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith in all nations for his name, Among whom are ye also, the called of Jesus Christ:
through whom we have received grace and Apostleship in His service in order to win men to obedience to the faith, among all Gentile peoples,
bi whom we han resseyued grace and the office of apostle, to obeie to the feith in alle folkis for his name,
through whom we received grace and apostleship, to obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name:
Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.
Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for His name,
Through Christ, God has given us the privilege and authority as apostles to tell Gentiles everywhere what God has done for them, so that they will believe and obey him, bringing glory to his name.
Jesus has given us His loving-favor and has made us His missionaries. We are to preach to the people of all nations that they should obey Him and put their trust in Him.
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for the sake of his name,
Through whom we have received favour and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name,
By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith, in all nations, for his name:
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
by whom we have receaved grace and apostleshyppe to bringe all maner hethe people vnto obedience of the fayth that is in his name:
through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;
by whom we haue receaued grace and Apostelshippe amonge all Heythen, to set vp the obedience of faith vnder his name,
by whose favour I have received the office of an apostle to bring the Gentiles every where to the obedience of faith preached in his name:
Everything we've got and everything we ride for comes from God through Jesus Christ. He gives us the opportunity to cowboy for him and gather the herd from all the nations who've said they believe in Him. We do it, not for ourselves or to say look at me, but only to bring honor to his name.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
we have: Romans 12:3, Romans 15:15, Romans 15:16, John 1:16, 1 Corinthians 15:10, 2 Corinthians 3:5, 2 Corinthians 3:6, Galatians 1:15, Galatians 1:16, Ephesians 3:2-9, 1 Timothy 1:11, 1 Timothy 1:12
apostleship: Acts 1:25, 1 Corinthians 9:2, Galatians 2:8, Galatians 2:9
for obedience to the faith: or, to the obedience of faith, Romans 15:18, Romans 15:19, Romans 16:26, Acts 6:7, 2 Corinthians 10:4-6, Hebrews 5:9
among: Romans 3:29
for his name: Malachi 1:11, Malachi 1:14, Acts 15:14, Ephesians 1:6, Ephesians 1:12, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 Peter 2:10
Reciprocal: John 3:27 - A man John 15:16 - ordained Acts 9:15 - to bear Acts 18:27 - believed Acts 22:21 - for Acts 26:16 - a minister Romans 1:1 - called Romans 6:17 - but ye Romans 10:14 - and how shall Romans 10:16 - obeyed 1 Corinthians 1:1 - an 1 Corinthians 3:10 - to the 1 Corinthians 4:7 - and what 1 Corinthians 9:1 - I not an 2 Corinthians 10:5 - the obedience Galatians 2:7 - the gospel of the uncircumcision Ephesians 3:7 - according Philippians 1:27 - the faith 2 Thessalonians 1:8 - and that 1 Timothy 5:5 - a widow Hebrews 11:8 - obeyed 1 Peter 1:2 - unto 1 Peter 1:22 - in
Cross-References
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.
For as long as Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night will never stop."
class="poetry"> O my soul, bless God ! God , my God, how great you are! beautifully, gloriously robed, Dressed up in sunshine, and all heaven stretched out for your tent. You built your palace on the ocean deeps, made a chariot out of clouds and took off on wind-wings. You commandeered winds as messengers, appointed fire and flame as ambassadors. You set earth on a firm foundation so that nothing can shake it, ever. You blanketed earth with ocean, covered the mountains with deep waters; Then you roared and the water ran away— your thunder crash put it to flight. Mountains pushed up, valleys spread out in the places you assigned them. You set boundaries between earth and sea; never again will earth be flooded. You started the springs and rivers, sent them flowing among the hills. All the wild animals now drink their fill, wild donkeys quench their thirst. Along the riverbanks the birds build nests, ravens make their voices heard. You water the mountains from your heavenly cisterns; earth is supplied with plenty of water. You make grass grow for the livestock, hay for the animals that plow the ground. Oh yes, God brings grain from the land, wine to make people happy, Their faces glowing with health, a people well-fed and hearty. God 's trees are well-watered— the Lebanon cedars he planted. Birds build their nests in those trees; look—the stork at home in the treetop. Mountain goats climb about the cliffs; badgers burrow among the rocks. The moon keeps track of the seasons, the sun is in charge of each day. When it's dark and night takes over, all the forest creatures come out. The young lions roar for their prey, clamoring to God for their supper. When the sun comes up, they vanish, lazily stretched out in their dens. Meanwhile, men and women go out to work, busy at their jobs until evening. What a wildly wonderful world, God ! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom. The glory of God —let it last forever! Let God enjoy his creation! He takes one look at earth and triggers an earthquake, points a finger at the mountains, and volcanoes erupt. Oh, let me sing to God all my life long, sing hymns to my God as long as I live! Oh, let my song please him; I'm so pleased to be singing to God . But clear the ground of sinners— no more godless men and women! O my soul, bless God !
But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile? Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working. Or, to put it another way, you are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you'll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won't get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn't, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won't be torn out; you'll survive—but just barely. You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple. Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times. Be God's fool—that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls. I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift—Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
By whom we have received grace and apostleship,.... That is, either by the Holy Spirit, from whom all grace and gifts come, qualifying for the discharge of any office; or by the Lord Jesus Christ, who is full of grace and truth, has received gifts for, and gives them to men to fit them for whatsoever service he is pleased to call them to. By "grace and apostleship" may be meant, either one and the same thing, the favour and honour of being the apostles of Christ; or different things, and the one in order to the other. Grace may design special saving grace in calling, justification, pardon, and adoption, and sanctification, which was received in common with other saints, and is absolutely necessary to an apostle, and to any ordinary minister of the word; or the doctrine of grace, which they received from Christ, and dispensed to others; or rather the gifts of grace, and the various measures thereof, which they received from their ascended Lord and King, by which they were furnished for apostleship, that is, the work and office of apostles; to which they were called by Christ, and from whom they received a commission to execute it. The apostle takes in others sides himself, and says, "we have received"; partly for the sake of modesty, and partly to keep up his equal title with others to this office; and since this is had in a way of receiving, which supposes giving, and excludes boasting, it obliges to make use of all grace and gifts to the glory of Christ, by whom they are received. The end for which they received such an office, and grace to fit them for it, was, "for obedience to the faith"; that men might be brought by the ministry of the word to obey the faith, Christ the object of faith; to submit to his righteousness, and the way of salvation by him, and to be subject to his ordinances or to obey the doctrine of faith, which is not barely to hear it, and notionally receive it, but to embrace it heartily by faith, and retain it, in opposition to a disbelief and contempt of it; and which is the end and design of the Gospel ministration to bring persons to, Moreover, by
obedience to the faith, or "obedience of faith", as it may be rendered, may be meant the grace of faith, attended with evangelical obedience; for obedience, rightly performed, is only that which is by faith, and springs from it. Now grace and apostleship were received, in order to be exercised
among all nations; not in Judea only, to which the first commission of apostleship was limited, but in all the nations of the world, as the commission renewed by Christ after his resurrection ordered; and that some among all nations of the earth might, by the power of divine grace accompanying the word, be brought to faith and obedience: and all this, the qualifications for the office, the due exercise of it in all the world, and the success that attended it, were
for his name; for the honour and glory of Christ, in whose name they went, and which they bore and carried among the Gentiles, out of whom he was pleased "to take a people for his name", Acts 15:14.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
By whom - The apostle here returns to the subject of the salutation of the Romans, and states to them his authority to address them. That authority he had derived from the Lord Jesus, and not from man. On this fact, that he had received his apostolic commission, not from man, but by the direct authority of Jesus Christ, Paul not infrequently insisted. Galatians 1:12, “for I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by revelation of Jesus Christ;” 1 Corinthians 15:1-8; Ephesians 3:1-3.
We - The plural here is probably put for the singular; see Colossians 4:3; compare Ephesians 6:19-20. It was usual for those who were clothed with authority to express themselves in this manner. Perhaps here, however, he refers to the general nature of the apostolic office, as being derived from Jesus Christ, and designs to assure the Romans that “he” had received the apostolic commission as the others had. ‘We,” the apostles, have received the appointment from Jesus Christ. ‘
Grace and apostleship - Many suppose that this is a figure of speech, “hendiadys,” by which one thing is expressed by two words, meaning the grace or favor of the apostolic office. Such a figure of speech is often used. But it may mean, as it does probably here, the two things, grace, or the favor of God to his own soul, as a personal matter; and the apostolic office as a distinct thing. He often, however, speaks of the office of the apostleship as a matter of special favor, Romans 15:15-16; Galatians 2:9; Ephesians 3:7-9.
For obedience to the faith - In order to produce, or promote obedience to the faith; that is, to induce them to render that obedience to God which faith produces. There are two things therefore implied.
(1) That the design of the gospel and of the apostleship is to induce men to obey God.
(2) That the tendency of faith is to produce obedience. There is no true faith which does not produce that. This is constantly affirmed in the New Testament, Romans 15:18; Rom 16:19; 2 Corinthians 7:15; James 2:0.
Among all nations - This was the original commission which Jesus gave to his apostles, Mark 16:15-16; Matthew 28:18-19. This was the special commission which Paul received when he was converted, Acts 9:15. It was important to show that the commission extended thus far, as he was now addressing a distant church which he had not seen.
For his name - This means probably “on his account,” that is, on account of Christ, John 14:13-14; John 16:23-24. The design of the apostleship was to produce obedience to the gospel among all nations, that thus the name of Jesus might be honored. Their work was not one in which they were seeking to honor themselves, but it was solely for the honor and glory of Jesus Christ. For him they toiled, they encountered perils, they laid down their lives, because by so doing they might bring people to obey the gospel, and thus Jesus Christ might wear a brighter crown and be attended by a longer and more splendid train of worshippers in the kingdom of his glory.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 1:5. Grace and apostleship — The peculiar influence and the essential qualifications which such an office requires. Without the GRACE, favour, and peculiar help of God, he could not have been an apostle: he had an extraordinary conversion, and an extraordinary call to preach the Gospel. Probably χαριν και αποστολην, grace and apostleship, mean the same as χαριν της αποστολης, the apostolical office; for so the word χαρις means in Romans 12:3; Romans 15:15; 1 Corinthians 3:10; Ephesians 3:8. See the various acceptations of the word grace, Romans 1:7.
For obedience to the faith — That by this office, which I have received from God, and the power by which it is accompanied, I might proclaim the faith, the Gospel of Jesus; and show all nations the necessity of believing in it, in order to their salvation. Here is:
1. The Gospel of the Son of God.
2. An apostle divinely commissioned and empowered to preach it.
3. The necessity of faith in the name of Jesus, as the only Saviour of the world.
4. Of obedience, as the necessary consequence of genuine faith. And,
5. This is to be proclaimed among all nations; that all might have the opportunity of believing and being saved.
