1We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
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Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; …
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)In these verses we have an account of the apostle’s general errand and exhortation to all to whom he preached in every place where he came, with the several arguments and methods he used. Observe, I. The errand or exhortation itself, namely, to comply with the gospel offers of reconciliation—that, being favoured with the gospel, they would not receive this grace of God in vain , 2 Cor. 6:1. The go…
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