7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. …
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? …
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The apostle in these verses pursues the argument of the former chapter, concerning the grounds of their courage and patience under afflictions. And, I. He mentions their expectation, and desire, and assurance, of eternal happiness after death, 2 Cor. 5:1-5. Observe particularly, 1. The believer’s expectation of eternal happiness after death, 2 Cor. 5:1. He does not only know, or is well assured by…
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