Romans 16:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

Romans 16:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jude 1:19
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
1 Timothy 6:3-5
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; …
2 Timothy 3:5
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-20)

The apostle having endeavoured by his endearing salutations to unite them together, it was not improper to subjoin a caution to take heed of those whose principles and practices were destructive to Christian love. And we may observe, I. The caution itself, which is given in the most obliging manner that could be: I beseech you, brethren. He does not will and command, as one that lorded it over God…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned--“which ye learned.” and avoid them--The fomentors of “divisions” here referred to are probably those who were unfriendly to the truths taught in this epistle, while those who caused “offenses” were probably those referred to in Ro 14:15 as haughtily disregarding the prejudi…