Romans 9:1
I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
In Context
2That I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart;
Cross References
Romans 2:15For when the Gentiles, who have not a law, do, by nature, the things of the law, these who have not a law, are a law to themselves,
2 Corinthians 1:12For the ground of our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have lived in the world more―abundantly, indeed, for you―in sincerity and godly purity, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 11:10As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting shall not be silenced, in my case, in the regions of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 12:19Do you think again that we offer you a defense of ourselves? We speak all these things before God in Christ, beloved, for your edification.
Philippians 1:8For God is my witness how ardently I love you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 1:5(Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and out of a good conscience, and out of faith unfeigned:
Matthew Henry on Romans 9:1
The apostle, having plainly asserted and largely proved that justification and salvation are to had by faith only, and not by the works of the law, by Christ and not by Moses, comes in this and the following chapters to anticipate an objection which might be made against this. If this be so, then what becomes of the Jews, of them all as a complex body, especially those of them that do not embrace Christ, nor believe the gospel? By this rule they must needs come short of happiness; and then what becomes of the… Read the whole commentary →