13Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
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This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-15)I. The importance and advantage of progress and perseverance in grace and holiness made the apostle to be very diligent in doing the work of a minister of Christ, that he might thereby excite and assist them to be diligent in the duty of Christians. If ministers be negligent in their work, it can hardly be expected that the people will be diligent in theirs; therefore Peter will not be negligent (…
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