Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
And--or, "Moreover," or "Now"; noting a transition to a new particular.
we know, etc.--The order in the original is more striking: "We know that to them that love God" (compare 1 Corinthians 2:9; Ephesians 6:24; James 1:12; James 2:5) "all things work together for good [even] to them who are the called (rather, 'who are called') according to His (eternal) purpose." Glorious assurance! And this, it seems, was a "household word," a "known" thing, among believers. This working of all things for good is done quite naturally to "them that love God," because such souls, persuaded that He who gave His own Son for them cannot but mean them well in all His procedure, learn thus to take in good part whatever He sends them, however trying to flesh and blood: and to them who are the called, according to "His purpose," all things do in the same intelligible way "work together for good"; for, even when "He hath His way in the whirlwind," they see "His chariot paved with love" (Song of Solomon 3:10). And knowing that it is in pursuance of an eternal "purpose" of love that they have been "called into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 1:9), they naturally say within themselves, "It cannot be that He 'of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things,' should suffer that purpose to be thwarted by anything really adverse to us, or that He should not make all things, dark as well as light, crooked as well as straight, to co-operate to the furtherance and final completion of His high design."
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 119:75-78
Proverbs 12:21
Ecclesiastes 2:26
Romans 8:27
Romans 8:29
1 Corinthians 1:9
1 Corinthians 1:9
1 Corinthians 1:24
1 Corinthians 3:21
1 Corinthians 3:22
Ephesians 4:1
1 Thessalonians 5:18
1 Timothy 4:8
2 Timothy 1:9
Hebrews 1:14
2 Peter 1:10
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