Romans 16:9
in Romans 16Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Salute Urbanus our fellow-worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
KJV
Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
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This verse in Romans 16
Commentary
10 notes on this verseGreet Urbanus my helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. He joins Stachys in the greeting, but he set Urbanus ahead in praises. For he calls the one a helper in Christ; but Stachys he named only as beloved to himself, just as he did Ampliatus. Now a helper of the Apostle in Christ is understood as nothing other than a partaker in the apostolic work.
This site's exposition
Greet Ampliatus
on Romans 16:8-11
Five believers are greeted by name in these four verses, among them Apelles, who is approved in Christ. The word is dokimos, tested and found sound. Two more greetings go to believers inside great houses, the household of Aristobulus and the household of Narcissus, so the gospel had reached inside both.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
A commentator
Theodoret of CyrusINTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS · Written before 458.
proposed
Paul praises Urbanus more highly than Stachys, because Urbanus had helped him in his preaching and in his struggles.
"Salute Urbane, my helper in the Lord." This is a greater encomium than the other. For this even comprehends that. "And Stachys, my beloved." This again is an honor of the same kind.
The Medieval Church2 voices
Then he says, greet Urbanus, our helper in Christ, i.e., in preaching the faith: a brother helped is like a strong city (Prov 18:19), and Stachys, my beloved. He mentions them together, perhaps because they lived together or were connected in some other way.
This praise is greater than the previous one; it is even the cause of it and contains it within itself: for whoever is a fellow worker is also beloved. And he crowns this one with the same.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ,....
3 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
Urbane, our helper - Who this Urbanus was we know not; what is here stated is, that he had been a fellow laborer with the apostles. Stachys, my beloved - One of my particular friends.
THIS chapter contains Paul's loving salutation to the various Christians dwelling at Rome. Remember that it is an Inspired passage. Although it consists of Christian courtesies addressed to different individuals, yet it was written by an Apostle and written not as an ordinary letter but as a part of the Inspired volume. Therefore there must be valuable matter in it and though, when we read it, it may appear to be uninstructive, there must be edifying matter beneath the surface because all Scripture is given by Inspiration and is meant to benefit us in one way or another. It shows to us one thing, at any rate, that Paul was of a most affectionate disposition and that God did not select as the Apostle of the Gentiles a man of a coarse, unfeeling, selfish turn of mind. His memory, as well as his heart, must have been in good condition to remember so large a number of names and these were but a few of his many beloved Brethren and spiritual children all over the world whom he mentions by name in his other Epistles. His warm heart, I doubt not, quickened his memory and secured to his remembrance the form, condition, history, character and name of each one of his friends. He loved them too well to forget them! Christians should love one another and should bear one another's names upon their hearts, even as the great High Priest wears the names of all His saints upon His jeweled breastplate. A Christian, because of the love he bears to others, is ever anxious to please by courtesy and desires—never to pain by rudeness. Grace makes the servant of God to be, in the highest sense, a true gentleman. If we learn nothing more from this passage than the duty of acting lovingly and courteously, one to the other, we shall be all the better for it, for there is none too much tender consideration and gentle speech among professors at this time. I.
THIS chapter contains Paul's loving salutation to the various Christians dwelling at Rome. Remember that it is an Inspired passage. Although it consists of Christian courtesies addressed to different individuals, yet it was written by an Apostle and written not as an ordinary letter but as a part of the Inspired volume. Therefore there must be valuable matter in it and though, when we read it, it may appear to be uninstructive, there must be edifying matter beneath the surface because all Scripture is given by Inspiration and is meant to benefit us in one way or another.
The words behind it
12 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ἀσπάσασθε | aspasasthe | do greet | G782 → | 57 times |
| Οὐρβανὸν | ourbanon | Urbanus | G3773 → | |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| συνεργὸν | sunergon | fellow worker | G4904 → | 13 times |
| ἡμῶν | hemon | of us | G3165 → | 1936 times |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 → | 2738 times |
| Χριστῷ | christo | Christ | G5547 → | 523 times |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| Στάχυν | stachun | Stachys | G4720 → | |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| ἀγαπητόν | agapeton | beloved | G27 → | 61 times |
| μου.¶ | mou | of mine. | G3165 → | 1936 times |
ἀσπάσασθεdo greet
aspasastheG782 →57 times
ΟὐρβανὸνUrbanus
ourbanonG3773 →
τὸνthe
tonG3588 →19766 times
συνεργὸνfellow worker
sunergonG4904 →13 times
ἡμῶνof us
hemonG3165 →1936 times
ἐνin
enG1722 →2738 times
ΧριστῷChrist
christoG5547 →523 times
καὶand
kaiG2532 →9120 times
ΣτάχυνStachys
stachunG4720 →
τὸνthe
tonG3588 →19766 times
ἀγαπητόνbeloved
agapetonG27 →61 times
μου.¶of mine.
mouG3165 →1936 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Romans 16:21Timothy, my fellow worker, sends you greetings, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my fellow countrymen.
it leads to
- Acts 20:4
Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.
- Acts 13:1
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.
- Acts 17:5
The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas,…
- Romans 16:11
Greet Herodion, my fellow countryman. Greet those from the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.
- Romans 16:7
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.
- Acts 20:4
Where this verse is studied
About Romans
This page draws on 10 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1113: “Romans, But Not romanists” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); John Chrysostom, Homily on Romans 31; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); John Lightfoot, Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae; Origen of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS; Theodoret of Cyrus, INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS; Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on Romans; Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Romans and William Ramsay, St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen.