15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; …
Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: …
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)The apostle here passes from special to more general exhortations. I. He teaches us how Christians and friends should treat one another. He advises Christians to be all of one mind , to be unanimous in the belief of the same faith, and the practice of the same duties of religion; and, whereas the Christians at that time were many of them in a suffering condition, he charges them to have compassion…
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