20Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
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According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, …
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-23)Here the apostle begins his exhortations to those whose glorious state he had before described, thereby instructing us that Christianity is a doctrine according to godliness, designed to make us not only wiser, but better. I. He exhorts them to sobriety and holiness. 1. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind , etc., 1 Pet. 1:13. As if he had said, “ Wherefore , since you are so honoured and dist…
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