Romans 16:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

Romans 16:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 10:16
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
James 3:13-18
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. …
Philippians 2:15
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Romans 1:8
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

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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. 19)

19. For your obedience--that is, tractableness is come abroad unto all. I am glad therefore on your behalf--“I rejoice therefore over you,” seems the true reading. but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple--“harmless,” as in Mt 10:16, from which the warning is taken. concerning--“unto” evil--“Your reputation among the churches for subjection to the teaching ye have received…