SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:5
por el cual recibimos la gracia y el apostolado, para hacer que se obedezca a la fe entre todos los gentiles en su Nombre,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Romans 1:5
Verse 5. Grace and apostleship] The peculiar influence and the essential qualifications which such an office requires. Without the GRACE, favour, and peculiar help of God, he could not have been an apostle: he had an extraordinary conversion, and an extraordinary call to preach the Gospel. Probably carin kai apostolhn, grace and apostleship, mean the same as carin thv apostolhv, the apostolical office; for so the word cariv means in chap. xii. 3; xv. 15; 1 Cor. iii. 10; Eph. iii. 8. See the various acceptations of the word grace, ver. 7.
For obedience to the faith] That by this office, which I have received from God, and the power by which it is accompanied, I might proclaim the faith, the Gospel of Jesus; and show all nations the necessity of believing in it, in order to their salvation. Here is: 1. The Gospel of the Son of God.
2. An apostle divinely commissioned and empowered to preach it. 3. The necessity of faith in the name of Jesus, as the only saviour of the world. 4.
Of obedience, as the necessary consequence of genuine faith. And, 5. This is to be proclaimed among all nations; that all might have the opportunity of believing and being saved.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 5. By whom we have received grace and apostleship , etc..] That is, either by the Holy Spirit, from whom all grace and gifts come, qualifying for the discharge of any office; or by the Lord Jesus Christ, who is full of grace and truth, has received gifts for, and gives them to men to fit them for whatsoever service he is pleased to call them to. By grace and apostleship may be meant, either one and the same thing, the favour and honour of being the apostles of Christ; or different things, and the one in order to the other. Grace may design special saving grace in calling, justification, pardon, and adoption, and sanctification, which was received in common with other saints, and is absolutely necessary to an apostle, and to any ordinary minister of the word; or the doctrine of grace, which they received from Christ, and dispensed to others; or rather the gifts of grace, and the various measures thereof, which they received from their ascended Lord and King, by which they were furnished for apostleship, that is, the work and office of apostles; to which they were called by Christ, and from whom they received a commission to execute it. The apostle takes in others sides himself, and says, we have received; partly for the sake of modesty, and partly to keep up his equal title with others to this office; and since this is had in a way of receiving, which supposes giving, and excludes boasting, it obliges to make use of all grace and gifts to the glory of Christ, by whom they are received. The end for which they received such an office, and grace to fit them for it, was, for obedience to the faith; that men might be brought by the ministry of the word to obey the faith, Christ the object of faith; to submit to his righteousness, and the way of salvation by him, and to be subject to his ordinances or to obey the doctrine of faith, which is not barely to hear it, and notionally receive it, but to embrace it heartily by faith, and retain it, in opposition to a disbelief and contempt of it; and which is the end and design of the Gospel ministration to bring persons to, Moreover, by obedience to the faith , or obedience of faith, as it may be rendered, may be meant the grace of faith, attended with evangelical obedience; for obedience, rightly performed, is only that which is by faith, and springs from it. Now grace and apostleship were received, in order to be exercised among all nations ; not in Judea only, to which the first commission of apostleship was limited, but in all the nations of the world, as the commission renewed by Christ after his resurrection ordered; and that some among all nations of the earth might, by the power of divine grace accompanying the word, be brought to faith and obedience: and all this, the qualifications for the office, the due exercise of it in all the world, and the success that attended it, were for his name ; for the honour and glory of Christ, in whose name they went, and which they bore and carried among the Gentiles, out of whom he was pleased to take a people for his name, ( Acts 15:14).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - The doctrine of which the apostle Paul wrote, set forth the fulfilmen of the promises by the prophets. It spoke of the Son of God, even Jesu the Saviour, the promised Messiah, who came from David as to his huma nature, but was also declared to be the Son of God, by the Divine powe which raised him from the dead. The Christian profession does no consist in a notional knowledge or a bare assent, much less in pervers disputings, but in obedience. And all those, and those only, ar brought to obedience of the faith, who are effectually called of Jesu Christ. Here is, 1. The privilege of Christians; they are beloved of God, and are members of that body which is beloved. 2. The duty of Christians; to be holy, hereunto are they called, called to be saints These the apostle saluted, by wishing them grace to sanctify their souls, and peace to comfort their hearts, as springing from the fre mercy of God, the reconciled Father of all believers, and coming to them through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Greek Textus Receptus
δι 1223 PREP ου 3739 R-GSM ελαβομεν 2983 5627 V-2AAI-1P χαριν 5485 N-ASF και 2532 CONJ αποστολην 651 N-ASF εις 1519 PREP υπακοην 5218 N-ASF πιστεως 4102 N-GSF εν 1722 PREP πασιν 3956 A-DPN τοις 3588 T-DPN εθνεσιν 1484 N-DPN υπερ 5228 PREP του 3588 T-GSN ονοματος 3686 N-GSN αυτου 846 P-GSM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
5. We have received (elabomen). Aorist tense. Rev., we received. The categorical plural, referring to Paul, and not including the other apostles, since the succeeding phrase, among all the nations, points to himself alone as the apostle to the Gentiles Grace and apostleship. Grace, the general gift bestowed on all believers: apostleship, the special manifestation of grace to Paul. The connecting kai and, has the force of and in particular. Compare ch. xv. 15, 16.For obedience to the faith (eiv upakohn pistewv). Rev., unto obedience of faith. Unto marks the object of the grace and apostleship: in order to bring about. Obedience of faith is the obedience which characterizes and proceeds from faith.
Nations (eqnesin). Or Gentiles. Not geographically, contrasting the inhabitants of the world, Jew and Gentile, with the Jews strictly so called, dwelling in Palestine, but Gentiles distinctively, for whom Paul's apostleship was specially instituted. See on Luke ii. 32, and compare on 1 Peter ii. 9.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
1:5 {Unto obedience of faith} (eis hupakoen pistews). Subjective genitive as in #16:26, the obedience which springs from faith (the act of assent or surrender).
