Romans 15 Bible study: The God of hope

Favor's introduction to Romans gives 14:1-15:13 as one part of the letter, Accept one another, and this chapter opens inside it. "Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up." (15:1-2). These notes name no person or group as the strong or the weak, and apply none of it to anyone. Then: "For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”" (15:3). And: "For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope." (15:4). Favor's introduction to Romans quotes 15:4 in its watch-for As it is written.

Isaiah 11:10→leads toRomans 15:12

"It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious" (Isaiah 11:10). Paul (Romans 1:1) writes, "Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers" (Romans 15:8), "and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy" (Romans 15:9). He gives three Scriptures (Romans 15:9-11), and then the fourth: "Again, Isaiah says" (Romans 15:12), "There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope" (Romans 15:12). The WEB words the two differently, Isaiah's "who stands as a banner of the peoples" and Romans' "he who arises to rule over the Gentiles"; nothing is claimed here about the Greek.

ἱερουργέωhierourgeosay hee-er-oorg-EH-o

Strong's: "to be a temple-worker, i.e. officiate as a priest (figuratively)". Thayer: "to minister in the manner of a priest, minister in priestly service", and he lists 15:16 there, "of the preaching of the gospel". "that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God" (15:16): behind serving as a priest is this one verb. The New Testament has it only here (counted in RP2018). The letter's opening has another verb of serving with the Good News, "whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son" (1:9), where serve is latreuo, which Favor's Matthew 4 studies.