罗马书 16:4

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們為了我的性命，置生死於度外，不但我感激他們，連外族的眾教會也感激他們。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
也 为 我 的 命 将 自 己 的 颈 项 置 之 度 外 。 不 但 我 感 谢 他 们 ， 就 是 外 邦 的 众 教 会 也 感 谢 他 们 。

Contextual Overview

¹ I recommend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a helper in the church in Cenchrea. ² I ask you to accept her in the Lord in the way God's people should. Help her with anything she needs, because she has helped me and many other people also. ³ Give my greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, who work together with me in Christ Jesus ⁴ and who risked their own lives to save my life. I am thankful to them, and all the non-Jewish churches are thankful as well. ⁵ Also, greet for me the church that meets at their house. Greetings to my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first person in Asia to follow Christ. ⁶ Greetings to Mary, who worked very hard for you. ⁷ Greetings to Andronicus and Junia, my relatives, who were in prison with me. They are very important apostles. They were believers in Christ before I was. ⁸ Greetings to Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord. ⁹ Greetings to Urbanus, a worker together with me for Christ. And greetings to my dear friend Stachys. ¹⁰ Greetings to Apelles, who was tested and proved that he truly loves Christ. Greetings to all those who are in the family of Aristobulus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

have: Romans 5:7, John 15:13, Philippians 2:30, 1 John 3:16

laid: Joshua 10:24, 2 Samuel 22:41, Micah 2:3

also: Acts 15:41, Acts 16:5, 1 Corinthians 7:17, 1 Corinthians 16:1, 1 Thessalonians 2:14, Revelation 1:4

Reciprocal: Judges 9:17 - adventured his life Judges 11:36 - forasmuch Judges 12:3 - put 1 Chronicles 11:19 - that have put their lives Esther 4:16 - if I perish Job 16:12 - by my neck Acts 18:2 - Aquila Romans 16:2 - for Romans 16:16 - The 1 Corinthians 16:19 - Aquila 2 Corinthians 8:18 - throughout 2 Corinthians 11:28 - the care 2 Timothy 4:19 - Prisca

Cross-References

Genesis 16:4
Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar learned she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress Sarai badly.

Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, "This is your fault. I gave my slave girl to you, and when she became pregnant, she began to treat me badly. Let the Lord decide who is right—you or me."

Genesis 16:6
But Abram said to Sarai, "You are Hagar's mistress. Do anything you want to her." Then Sarai was hard on Hagar, and Hagar ran away.

Genesis 16:8
The angel said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, where have you come from? Where are you going?" Hagar answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."

2 Samuel 6:16
As the Ark of the Lord came into the city, Saul's daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw David jumping and dancing in the presence of the Lord , she hated him.

Proverbs 30:23
a hated woman who gets married, and a maid who replaces her mistress.

1 Corinthians 4:6
Brothers and sisters, I have used Apollos and myself as examples so you could learn through us the meaning of the saying, "Follow only what is written in the Scriptures." Then you will not be more proud of one person than another.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who for my life laid down their necks,.... That is, exposed themselves to great danger to save the apostle's life: the allusion is to the manner of executions by beheading, and to one person's laying down his head, and offering his neck to the executioner the room of another: this we are not to suppose was literally done; but the design of the expression is, that in some shape or another they risked their own lives for the apostle's; which might be done either at the insurrection in Corinth against Paul, when the Jews dragged him to the judgment seat of Gallio, and beat Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue before him; or the uproar in Ephesus by Demetrius and the craftsmen, when Paul and his companions were in great danger; at both which times and places these two persons were, and being very zealous, were no doubt active to preserve the apostle, and which he acknowledges with thankfulness:

unto whom not only I give thanks, but all the churches of the Gentiles; both for the care they took of him, and the danger they exposed themselves to on his account; which the apostle expresses his sense of gratitude for, and which all the Gentile churches were under obligations to do likewise, since they had a common share in his labours and usefulness, he was the apostle of them all; and also for their help and assistance in carrying on the work of the Lord in all the churches of the Gentiles.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who have for my life - In order to save my life.

Laid down their own necks - To “lay down the neck” is to lay the head on a block to be cut off with the axe; or to bow down the head as when the neck was exposed to be cut off by the sword of the executioner. The meaning is, that they had hazarded their lives, had exposed themselves to imminent danger, to save the life of Paul. On what occasion this was done, is not known, as it is not referred to in the New Testament elsewhere. As Paul, however, lived with them Acts 18:3, and as he was often persecuted by the Jews, it is probable that he refers to some such period when he was persecuted, when Aquila and Priscilla took him into their house at the imminent hazard of their lives.

All the churches of the Gentiles - All the churches that had been founded by the apostles. They “felt” their deep obligation to them for having saved the life of him who had been their founder, and who was their spiritual father.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 16:4. Who have for my life laid down their own necks — What transaction this refers to we know not; but it appears that these persons had, on some occasion, hazarded their own lives to save that of the apostle; and that the fact was known to all the Churches of God in that quarter, who felt themselves under the highest obligations to these pious persons, for the important service which they had thus rendered.