1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
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But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The apostle had, in the foregoing chapter, been magnifying his office , upon the consideration of the excellency or glory of that gospel about which he did officiate; and now in this chapter his design is to vindicate their ministry from the accusation of false teachers, who charged them as deceitful workers, or endeavoured to prejudice the minds of the people against them on account of their suff…
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