10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
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For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: …
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-14)We come now to the conclusion of this epistle, which, I. The apostle begins with a most weighty prayer, which he addresses to God as the God of all grace , the author and finisher of every heavenly gift and quality, acknowledging, on their behalf, that God had already called them to be partakers of that eternal glory, which, being his own, he had promised and settled upon them, through the merit a…
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