Charles Ellicott Commentary Romans 15:7

"Wherefore receive ye one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God." — Romans 15:7 (ASV)

Received us.—There is again a division among the best authorities, the Vatican and Claromontane manuscripts reading “us,” while the Sinaitic, Alexandrine, Paris rescript, and others, read “you.” The latter reading is perhaps to be preferred, though it makes no real difference to the meaning. The word “received” is the same as that at the beginning of Romans 14:1, the subject of which chapter is still being continued, and is now taken up for the last time. The duty of Christians to show cordiality to each other is now based on the comprehensiveness of Christ’s love, whose mission was directed with the same impartiality toward both Jews and Gentiles. To the Jews He came to confirm and fulfill His promises; to the Gentiles He came to bring joys and hopes from which they had previously been excluded.

To the glory of God.—This means that God might be glorified by the admission of Gentiles as well as Jews into the Church; it is a parenthetical remark without direct bearing on the argument.