8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)In these words the apostle comes to the chief thing intended in this epistle—to excite and engage them to advance in grace and holiness, they having already obtained precious faith, and been made partakers of the divine nature. This is a very good beginning, but it is not to be rested in, as if we were already perfect. The apostle had prayed that grace and peace might be multiplied to them, and no…
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