4I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
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For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. …
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Ancient epistles began, as here, with salutation and good wishes: religion consecrates, as far as may be, old forms, and turns compliments into real expressions of life and love. Here we have, as usually, I. The saluter, not expressed by name, but by a chosen character: The elder . The expression, and style, and love, intimate that the penman was the same with that of the foregoing epistle; he is…
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