11Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
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For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-14)The apostle, having recited their privileges, proceeds here to an account of their faults and punishments, their sins and plagues, which are left upon record for an example to us, a warning against the like sins, if we would escape the like punishments. We must not do as they did, lest we suffer as they suffered. I. Several of their sins are specified as cautions to us; as, 1. We should shun inord…
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