58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
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And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 58)In this verse we have the improvement of the whole argument, in an exhortation, enforced by a motive resulting plainly from it. I. An exhortation, and this threefold:—1. That they should be stedfast— hedraioi , firm, fixed in the faith of the gospel, that gospel which he had preached and they had received, namely, That Christ died for our sins, and arose again the third day, according to the scrip…
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