12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
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Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-12)In these words the apostle mentions the great duties, I. Of brotherly love. This he exhorts them to increase in yet more and more. The exhortation is introduced, not with a compliment, but with a commendation, because they were remarkable in the exercise of it, which made it less needful that he should write to them about it, 1 Thess. 4:9. Thus by his good opinion of them he insinuated himself int…
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