12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
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Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: …
Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)Here the apostle improves the foregoing hint to a caution against pride and self-conceit, and sets forth the temptations the Corinthians had to despise him, from the difference of their circumstances. I. He cautions them against pride and self-conceit by this consideration, that all the distinction made among them was owing to God: Who maketh thee to differ? And what hast thou that thou didst not…
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