11Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
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Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. …
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)In these verses the apostle treats concerning the incestuous person who had been excommunicated, which seems to be one principal cause of his writing this epistle. Here observe, 1. He tells them that the crime of that person had grieved him in part ; and that he was grieved also with a part of them, who, notwithstanding this scandal had been found among them, were puffed up and had not mourned , 1…
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