31I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
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Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. …
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. …
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-34)In this passage the apostle establishes the truth of the resurrection of the dead, the holy dead, the dead in Christ, I. On the resurrection of Christ. 1. Because he is indeed the first-fruits of those that slept , 1 Cor. 15:20. He has truly risen himself, and he has risen in this very quality and character, as the first-fruits of those who sleep in him. As he has assuredly risen, so in his resurr…
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