7So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
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For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)We have here the apostle’s preface to his whole epistle, in which we may take notice, I. Of the inscription, in which, according to the custom of writing letters then, the name of the person by whom it was written and the persons to whom it was written are both inserted. 1. It is an epistle from Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles, to the church of Corinth, which he himself had planted, though there…
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