8Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
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Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
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;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-9)In this principal part of the epistle we find, I. The ill news communicated to the lady-seducers are abroad: For many deceivers have entered into the world . This report is introduced by a particle that bespeaks a reason of the report. “You have need to maintain your love, for there are destroyers of it in the world. Those who subvert the faith destroy the love; the common faith is one ground of t…
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