Romans 15:7

Wherefore receive ye one another: see Romans 14:1,3. He ends this discourse with the same terms in which he began it. Before, the strong only were charged to receive the weak, but here both are charged alike; the strong must receive the weak, and the weak the strong; they must all have communion one with another, continuing in brotherly love, accounting one another for brethren, exercising mutual forbearance and long-suffering. As Christ also received us; i.e. after the example of Christ, who beareth with the infirmities of his followers, putting no difference betwixt Jews and Gentiles. The particle as noteth quality, not equality; there is no proportion betwixt the infinite love of Christ and the scanty charity of man. See the like, Matthew 5:48 Ephesians 5:2. To the glory of God; some join this with the former clause, that we should receive one another to the glory of God: God is glorified by that brotherly love and concord that is amongst his people. Others join it with the latter clause, that Christ hath received us to the glory of God; i.e. to make us partakers of the glory of God, or to declare and manifest the glory of God's truth to the Jews, and mercy to the Gentiles, as he showeth in the following verses.