9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
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But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering;(for he is faithful that promised;)
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
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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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