9Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. …
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-9)Here the apostle does three things:— I. He shows them their danger from an enemy more cruel and restless than even the worst of men, whom he describes, 1. By his characters and names. (1.) He is an adversary: “ That adversary of yours ; not a common adversary, but an enemy that impleads you, and litigates against you in your grand depending cause, and aims at your very souls.” (2.) The devil, the…
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