9For 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.
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Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; …
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: …
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
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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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