Romans 14:11 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 14:11

It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”

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ASV

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, And every tongue shall confess to God.

KJV

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

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Commentary

4 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For it is written - This passage is recorded in Isa 45:23. It is not quoted literally, but the sense is preserved. In Isaiah there can be no doubt that it refers to Yahweh. The speaker expressly calls himself Yahweh, the name which is appropriate to God alone, and which is never applied to a creature; Rom 14:18. In the place before us, the words are applied by Paul expressly to Christ; compare Rom 14:10. This mode of quotation is a strong incidental proof that the apostle regarded the Lord Jesus as divine.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

As I live - An oath proper to him, because he only possesseth life infinite and independent. It is Christ who is here termed both Lord and God; as it is he to whom we live, and to whom we die.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is a prophecy, in general, of Christ's dominion; and here very fully applied to the judgment of the great day, which will be the highest and most illustrious exercise of that dominion. Here is a proof of Christ's Godhead: he is the Lord and he is God, equal with the Father.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1601: “The Judgment Seat Of God” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1881)

NO doubt there is an error in our version, for where in the 10th verse we read, "The Judgment Seat of Christ," it should be, "The Judgment Seat of God." I suppose the word, "Christ," slipped into certain manuscripts because Paul had been speaking of Christ and it was thought to be natural that he should continue to use the same name. Paul did not say "Christ," but, "God"—but by that word he meant the same Person.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
γέγραπται	gegraptai	It has been written	G1125 →
γάρ·	gar	for:	G1063 →
ζῶ	zō	Live	G2198 →
ἐγώ,	egō	I myself,	G1473 →
λέγει	legei	says	G3004 →
κύριος,	kurios	[the] Lord,	G2962 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ἐμοὶ	emoi	to Me myself	G1473 →
κάμψει	kampsei	will bow	G2578 →
πᾶν	pan	every	G3956 →
γόνυ,	gonu	knee,	G1119 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πᾶσα	pasa	every	G3956 →
γλῶσσα	glōssa	tongue	G1100 →
ἐξομολογήσεται	exomologēsetai	will confess	G1843 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
θεῷ.¶	theō	to God.	G2316 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 10:9
that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
leads to
- Luke 12:8
  I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.
- Acts 16:31
  They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
- Philippians 2:11
  and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Matthew 10:32–33
  Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.
- 1 John 4:2–3
  By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
Through
Matthew 10:32
Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.
leads to
- Revelation 3:5
  Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His…
- Romans 10:9–10
  that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
- Luke 12:8–9
  I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.

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