19 [a]For your obedience is come abroad among all: I am glad therefore of you: but yet I would have you [b]wise unto that which is good, and [c]simple concerning evil.

20 [d]The God of peace shall tread Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

21 (A)[e]Timothy my helper, and Lucius and Jason, and Sosipater my kinsmen, salute you.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 16:19 Simplicity must be joined with wisdom.
  2. Romans 16:19 Furnished with the knowledge of the truth, and wisdom, that you may embrace good things, and eschew evil, beware of the deceits and snares of false prophets, and resist them openly: and this place doth plainly destroy the Papists’ faith of credit, whereas they maintain it to be sufficient for one man to believe as another man believeth, without further knowledge, or examination what the matter is, or what ground it hath: using these daily speeches, We believe as our fathers believed, and we believe as the Church believeth.
  3. Romans 16:19 As men that know no way to deceive, much less to deceive in deed.
  4. Romans 16:20 We must fight, with a certain hope of victory.
  5. Romans 16:21 He annexeth salutations, partly to renew mutual friendship, and partly to the end that this Epistle might be of some weight with the Romans, having the confirmation of so many that subscribed unto it.

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