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“For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.” We should pray that the things which were true of the Roman church are true of us. While Paul recognizes and commends their obedience, he also calls them to a higher level. Those of great Christian character don’t mature past simple obedience, they rather do just as the Apostle suggests; increasing their understanding of good, while further separating themselves from evil. The most Godly people develop an experiential ignorance of continual sin, and (at the same time) a keen, objective understanding of its lure, its affects, and its dangers. They do not forget the sins of their past or ignore the sins of present, but instead become more determined to rely upon Christ to overcome them. Their simplicity in matters of evil is not simplicity of understanding, it is simplicity of ongoing experience. I hope this passage will inspire all of us to greater obedience, allowing any discussion of the most Godly disciples to include us. My prayer is that we would have a vast knowledge of goodness, and profound hatred of sin.