3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
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And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)The apostle here draws a new inference from the consideration of Christ’s sufferings. As he had before made use of it to persuade to patience in suffering, so here to mortification of sin. Observe, I. How the exhortation is expressed. The antecedent or supposition is that Christ had suffered for us in the flesh, or in his human nature. The consequent or inference is, “ Arm and fortify yourselves l…
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