Romans Chapter 12 verse 11 Holy Bible
in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
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Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;
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as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.
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Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
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not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
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in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;
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Romans 12 : 11 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - In business (rather, diligence) not slothful; in spirit fervent (we are to do with our might whatever our hand finds to do; yea, with fervent zeal); serving the Lord. For τῷ Κυρίῳ, (the Lord), some manuscripts have τῷ καιρῷ (the time, or the opportunity), which reading is preferred by some commentators on the ground that it is less likely to have been instituted for the familiar τῷ Κυρίῳ than vice versa. But τῷ Κυρίῳ is best supported, and has an obvious meaning, vie. that in the zealous performance of all our duties we are to feel that we are serving the Lord.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) In business.--Rather, in zeal; the reference is to the spiritual and not to the practical life, as the English reader might suppose.Fervent.--In the literal and etymological sense boiling or seething. The temperament of the Christian is compared to water bubbling and boiling over the flame.In spirit--i.e., not "in the Holy Spirit," but "in that part of you which is spirit."Serving the Lord.--Some of the extant Graeco-Latin codices, and others known to Origen and Jerome, read here by a slight change of vowels "serving the time"; no doubt wrongly, though the expression might be compared with 1Corinthians 7:29; Ephesians 5:16, et al.
