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Text -- Romans 12:15 (NET)

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12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
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Robertson: Rom 12:15 - -- Rejoice ( chairein ). Present active infinitive of chairō , absolute or independent use of the infinitive as if a finite verb as occurs sometimes (...

Rejoice ( chairein ).

Present active infinitive of chairō , absolute or independent use of the infinitive as if a finite verb as occurs sometimes (Robertson, Grammar , pp. 1092ff.). Literally here, "Rejoicing with rejoicing people, weeping with weeping people."

Wesley: Rom 12:15 - -- The direct opposite to weeping is laughter; but this does not so well suit a Christian.

The direct opposite to weeping is laughter; but this does not so well suit a Christian.

JFB: Rom 12:15 - -- The "and" should probably be omitted.

The "and" should probably be omitted.

JFB: Rom 12:15 - -- What a beautiful spirit of sympathy with the joys and sorrows of others is here inculcated! But it is only one charming phase of the unselfish charact...

What a beautiful spirit of sympathy with the joys and sorrows of others is here inculcated! But it is only one charming phase of the unselfish character which belongs to all living Christianity. What a world will ours be when this shall become its reigning spirit! Of the two, however, it is more easy to sympathize with another's sorrows than his joys, because in the one case he needs us; in the other not. But just for this reason the latter is the more disinterested, and so the nobler.

Clarke: Rom 12:15 - -- Rejoice with them that do rejoice - Take a lively interest in the prosperity of others. Let it be a matter of rejoicing to you when you hear of the ...

Rejoice with them that do rejoice - Take a lively interest in the prosperity of others. Let it be a matter of rejoicing to you when you hear of the health, prosperity, or happiness of any brother

Clarke: Rom 12:15 - -- Weep with them that weep - Labour after a compassionate or sympathizing mind. Let your heart feel for the distressed; enter into their sorrows, and ...

Weep with them that weep - Labour after a compassionate or sympathizing mind. Let your heart feel for the distressed; enter into their sorrows, and bear a part of their burdens. It is a fact, attested by universal experience, that by sympathy a man may receive into his own affectionate feelings a measure of the distress of his friend, and that his friend does find himself relieved in the same proportion as the other has entered into his griefs. "But how do you account for this?"I do not account for it at all, it depends upon certain laws of nature, the principles of which have not been as yet duly developed.

Calvin: Rom 12:15 - -- 15.Rejoice with those who rejoice, etc A general truth is in the third place laid down, — that the faithful, regarding each other with mutual affec...

15.Rejoice with those who rejoice, etc A general truth is in the third place laid down, — that the faithful, regarding each other with mutual affection, are to consider the condition of others as their own. He first specifies two particular things, — That they were to “rejoice with the joyful, and to weep with the weeping.” For such is the nature of true love, that one prefers to weep with his brother, rather than to look at a distance on his grief, and to live in pleasure or ease. What is meant then is, — that we, as much as possible, ought to sympathize with one another, and that, whatever our lot may be, each should transfer to himself the feeling of another, whether of grief in adversity, or of joy in prosperity. And, doubtless, not to regard with joy the happiness of a brother is envy; and not to grieve for his misfortunes is inhumanity. Let there be such a sympathy among us as may at the same time adapt us to all kinds of feelings.

TSK: Rom 12:15 - -- Rejoice : Isa 66:10-14; Luk 1:58, Luk 15:5-10; Act 11:23; 1Co 12:26; 2Co 2:3; Phi 2:17, Phi 2:18, Phi 2:28 weep : Neh 1:4; Job 2:11; Psa 35:13, Psa 35...

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Barnes: Rom 12:15 - -- Rejoice with them ... - This command grows out of the doctrine stated in Rom 12:4-5, that the church is one; that it has one interest; and ther...

Rejoice with them ... - This command grows out of the doctrine stated in Rom 12:4-5, that the church is one; that it has one interest; and therefore that there should be common sympathy in its joys and sorrows. Or, enter into the welfare of your fellow-Christians, and show your attachment to them by rejoicing that they are made happy; compare 1Co 12:26, "And whether .... one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it."In this way happiness diffuses and multiplies itself. It becomes expanded over the face of the whole society; and the union of the Christian body tends to enlarge the sphere of happiness and to prolong the joy conferred by religion. God has bound the family of man together by these sympathies, and it is one of the happiest of all devices to perpetuate and extend human enjoyments.

Weep ... - See the note at Joh 11:35. At the grave of Lazarus our Saviour evinced this in a most tender and affecting manner. The design of this direction is to produce mutual kindness and affection, and to divide our sorrows by the sympathies of friends. Nothing is so well suited to do this as the sympathy of those we love. All who are afflicted know how much it diminishes their sorrow to see others sympathizing with them, and especially those who evince in their sympathies the Christian spirit. How sad would be a suffering world if there were none who regarded our griefs with interest or with tears! if every sufferer were left to bear his sorrows unpitied and alone! and if all the ties of human sympathy were rudely cut at once, and people were left to suffer in solitude and unbefriended! It may be added that it is the special duty of Christians to sympathize in each other’ s griefs:

(1)    Because their Saviour set them the example;

(2)    Because they belong to the same family;

(3)    Because they are subject to similar trials and afflictions; and,

(4)    Because they cannot expect the sympathy of a cold and unfeeling world.

Poole: Rom 12:15 - -- i.e. Be touched with your neighbour’ s good or evil, as if it were your own. The reason of this sympathy, or fellow feeling, is rendered by the...

i.e. Be touched with your neighbour’ s good or evil, as if it were your own. The reason of this sympathy, or fellow feeling, is rendered by the apostle, 1Co 12:26,27 ; Because we are members one of another, therefore, if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Examples hereof we have in Luk 1:58 2Co 11:29 : see Heb 13:3 .

Gill: Rom 12:15 - -- Rejoice with them that do rejoice,.... Not in anything sinful and criminal, in a thing of nought, in men's own boastings; all such rejoicing is evil, ...

Rejoice with them that do rejoice,.... Not in anything sinful and criminal, in a thing of nought, in men's own boastings; all such rejoicing is evil, and not to be joined in; but in things good and laudable, as in outward prosperity; and to rejoice with such, is a very difficult task; for unless persons have a near concern in the prosperity of others, they are very apt to envy it, or to murmur and repine, that they are not in equal, or superior circumstances; and also in things spiritual, with such who rejoice in the discoveries of God's love to their souls, in the views of interest in Christ, and of peace, pardon, and righteousness by him, and in hope of the glory of God; when such souls make their boast in the Lord, the humble hearing thereof will be glad, and will, as they ought to do, join with them in magnifying the Lord, and will exalt his name together:

and weep with them that weep; so Christ, as he rejoiced with them that rejoiced, at the marriage in Cana of Galilee, wept with them that wept, with Mary at the grave of Lazarus. The design of these rules is to excite and encourage sympathy in the saints with each other, in all conditions inward and outward, and with respect to things temporal and spiritual; in imitation of Christ their great high priest, who cannot but be touched with the infirmities of his people; and as founded upon, and arising from, their relation to each other, as members of the same body; see 1Co 12:26;

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

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TSK Synopsis: Rom 12:1-21 - --1 God's mercies must move us to please God.3 No man must think too well of himself;6 but everyone attend on that calling wherein he is placed.9 Love, ...

Maclaren: Rom 12:13-15 - --Still Another Triplet Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. It. Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. 15. Re...

MHCC: Rom 12:9-16 - --The professed love of Christians to each other should be sincere, free from deceit, and unmeaning and deceitful compliments. Depending on Divine grace...

Matthew Henry: Rom 12:1-21 - -- We may observe here, according to the scheme mentioned in the contents, the apostle's exhortations, I. Concerning our duty to God, We see what is go...

Barclay: Rom 12:14-21 - --Paul offers a series of rules and principles wherewith to govern our relationships with our fellow men. (i) The Christian must meet persecution with a...

Constable: Rom 12:1--15:14 - --VI. THE PRACTICE OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS 12:1--15:13 In contrasting chapters 1-11 with chapters 12-16 of Romans, ...

Constable: Rom 12:3-21 - --B. Conduct within the church 12:3-21 Every Christian has the same duty toward God, namely dedication (vv...

Constable: Rom 12:9-21 - --2. The necessity of love 12:9-21 Verses 9-13 deal with the importance of demonstrating love to f...

Constable: Rom 12:14-21 - --Love for all 12:14-21 12:14 Paul repeated Jesus' instruction here (Matt. 5:44; Luke 6:27-28). To persecute means to pursue. Blessing involves both wis...

College: Rom 12:1-21 - --12:1-15:13 - PART FIVE LIVING THE SANCTIFIED LIFE There is definitely a break between ch. 11 and ch. 12, as Paul now begins a new section with an ob...

McGarvey: Rom 12:15 - --Rejoice with them that rejoice [1Co 12:26]; weep with them that weep . ["One might think," says Chrysostom, "it was no difficult task to rejoice with ...

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: Romans (Book Introduction) The Epistle to the Romans Spring of a.d. 57 By Way of Introduction Integrity of the Epistle The genuineness of the Epistle is so generally adm...

JFB: Romans (Book Introduction) THE GENUINENESS of the Epistle to the Romans has never been questioned. It has the unbroken testimony of all antiquity, up to CLEMENT OF ROME, the apo...

JFB: Romans (Outline) INTRODUCTION. (Rom. 1:1-17) THE JEW UNDER LIKE CONDEMNATION WITH THE GENTILE. (Rom. 2:1-29) JEWISH OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. (Rom 3:1-8) THAT THE JEW IS S...

TSK: Romans (Book Introduction) The Epistle to the Romans is " a writing," says Dr. Macknight, " which, for sublimity and truth of sentiment, for brevity and strength of expression,...

TSK: Romans 12 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Rom 12:1, God’s mercies must move us to please God; Rom 12:3, No man must think too well of himself; Rom 12:6, but everyone attend on t...

Poole: Romans 12 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 12

MHCC: Romans (Book Introduction) The scope or design of the apostle in writing to the Romans appears to have been, to answer the unbelieving, and to teach the believing Jew; to confir...

MHCC: Romans 12 (Chapter Introduction) (Rom 12:1, Rom 12:2) Believers are to dedicate themselves to God. (Rom 12:3-8) To be humble, and faithfully to use their spiritual gifts, in their re...

Matthew Henry: Romans (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans If we may compare scripture with scripture, and take the opinion ...

Matthew Henry: Romans 12 (Chapter Introduction) The apostle, having at large cleared and confirmed the prime fundamental doctrines of Christianity, comes in the next place to press the principal ...

Barclay: Romans (Book Introduction) A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LETTERS OF PAUL The Letters Of Paul There is no more interesting body of documents in the New Testament than the letter...

Barclay: Romans 12 (Chapter Introduction) The True Worship And The Essential Change (Rom_12:1-2) Each For All And All For Each (Rom_12:3-8) The Christian Life In Everyday Action (Rom_12:9-...

Constable: Romans (Book Introduction) Introduction Historical Background Throughout the history of the church, from postapos...

Constable: Romans (Outline) Outline I. Introduction 1:1-17 A. Salutation 1:1-7 1. The writer 1:1 ...

Constable: Romans Romans Bibliography Alford, Henry. The Greek Testament. 4 vols. New ed. Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1881. ...

Haydock: Romans (Book Introduction) THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL, THE APOSTLE, TO THE ROMANS. INTRODUCTION. After the Gospels, which contain the history of Christ, and the Acts of...

Gill: Romans (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ROMANS Though this epistle is in order placed the first of the epistles, yet it was not first written: there were several epistles ...

Gill: Romans 12 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ROMANS 12 The doctrines concerning predestination, justification, &c. being established, the duties of religion are built upon them...

College: Romans (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION I. ROMANS: ITS INFLUENCE AND IMPORTANCE God's Word is a lamp to our feet and a light for our path (Ps 119:105), and no part of it shine...

College: Romans (Outline) VIII. OUTLINE PROLOGUE - 1:1-17 I. EPISTOLARY GREETING - 1:1-7 A. The Author Introduces Himself - 1:1 1. A Slave of Christ Jesus 2. Call...

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