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Pelagius

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

465 passages across 8 books of the Bible · Who was this?

On Romans

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  1. Romans 11:27
    This new covenant Jeremiah promised which only those who are new, whose sins have been wiped away, will receive.

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  2. Romans 11:28
    They are Paul’s enemies because he preaches Christ to the Gentiles. But if they believe they are beloved, i.e., doubly blessed.

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  3. Romans 11:29
    If they believe, their sins will not be counted against them, because God does not repent that he made a promise with Abraham’s descendants. Or it may mean if they believe they will be saved without the anguish of penance.

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  4. Romans 11:30
    You did not believe when the Jews did, and now you have received mercy, but not because you have deserved it.

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  5. Romans 11:31
    Christ is the mercy of the Gentiles. They have been such unbelievers that they too are justified not by their works but in mercy, as you are.

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  6. Romans 11:32
    God has not imprisoned them by force, but for a good reason he has confined all those whom he found in unbelief, i.e., all Jews and Gentiles. He confined the Jews because previously they were only sinners, not faithless as well. But since they have not believed Christ they are equal to the Gentiles and receive mercy in the same way. God does all this so that he may have mercy on them all.

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  7. Romans 11:33
    Paul praises the wisdom of God, who according to his foreknowledge waited until all were in need of mercy in order to take from everyone the glory that derives from unfounded boasting in works. The judgments of God are a great deep, for they cannot be clearly grasped.

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  8. Romans 11:34
    Previously nobody knew it, but at the time of writing Paul certainly knew it, as he indicated to others when he said: “We have the mind of the Lord.”

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  9. Romans 11:35
    Who has done something beforehand, so that instead of magnifying God’s mercy, he boasts that he has received what he deserved?

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  10. Romans 11:36
    From him all creation received its beginning, through him it is governed, and in him are all things contained, whereas he is not contained by any created thing. He alone should receive glory, for it is from him that we live and move.At the same time, this passage also contradicts the Arians when it is said that it is one and the same God from whom and through whom all things are revealed to have been made, since the Evangelist indicated that in the beginning everything was made through the Word. The apostle here teaches that what the Evangelist testifies concerning the Son should be understood and believed of the Father, through the mystery of the unity.

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  11. Romans 12:1
    Because Paul has already mentioned the mind of the Lord, he now instructs them how they ought to conduct themselves so that they are worthy to have the mind of the Lord. They possessed nothing greater than the mercy of God because they had been set free by it. They were to present their bodies, not those of animals, as under the law, which (in spite of the fact that they were a symbolic offering) were nevertheless offered up healthy and unblemished. The living sacrifice was to be pure and free from the total death of sin. It should be pleasing only to God, not to other people. Every good work pleases God if it is done in a reasonable manner. For one is deprived of one’s reward if, for example, one fasts for public notice, for then one is performing a good deed in a foolish way. And the same applies to all vices that border on virtues.

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  12. Romans 12:2
    Do not be like the children of the world, you who have been made children of God, but renew your mind, by which the body is governed and all the members are directed. Thus even the movements of the body will be renewed, so that you may be able to recognize the will of God and his mind, for these are revealed only to a renewed mind.

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  13. Romans 12:3
    Since Paul is about to disallow human wisdom that goes beyond the law, he declares that he is not speaking his own mind but by the authority of a spiritual gift. He is writing to all those who are priests or teachers, whose example the others follow.One who searches into matters of which the law does not speak is trying to be wiser. That is why Solomon says: “Do not enquire after things higher than yourself and do not search after things greater than yourself but think always on the things that God has commanded you.” Note that Paul calls the Holy Spirit God, for to the Corinthians he declares that the Holy Spirit apportions gifts to each person as he wishes. A charismatic power, which only believers receive, is to be regarded as a measure of faith.

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  14. Romans 12:4
    Paul exhorts them to live in harmony by comparing them with the body, in case they are not roused by the fact that they have received different gifts. For as individuals they could not have had all the gifts, for then they might have become proud.… Nor could they all have the same gift, for then the likeness of the body of Christ would not be present among us.

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  15. Romans 12:6
    The gift does not depend upon us but upon the one who gives it. The glory to come is promised to all who believe, but the person who has a heart so pure that he deserves it receives the charismatic power which God has chosen for him even in this life.If we receive prophecy, it is according to faith, not the law. Or perhaps this means that faith deserves it. For each one receives as much as he believes.

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  16. Romans 12:7
    “Service” refers to the office of elder or deacon.

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  17. Romans 12:9
    Complete purity should dwell in the Christian, just as God is pure light, for it is typical of slaves to dissemble. And let us love not only in word but in deed and in truth, so that if it were necessary we would even die for one another.

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  18. Romans 12:10
    You should love one another as if you had been born of the same mother. If we always observed this injunction we would maintain love and patience. For if we considered ourselves less than everyone else we would neither insult anyone gratuitously nor be deeply hurt if someone insulted us.

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  19. Romans 12:11
    Do not become slow and lazy in God’s work out of concern for the world. The Lord does not love those who are unresponsive and is nauseated by those who are lukewarm. If we are resistant to the world we then manifestly glow with the Spirit, doing all things not for the world or its vices but for the Lord.

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  20. Romans 12:12
    Bear everything for the sake of the joy of the hope to come.

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