1This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
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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.
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. …
Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-2)That the apostle might the better reach his end in writing this epistle, which is to make them steady and constant in a fiducial and practical remembrance of the doctrine of the gospel, he, 1. Expresses his special affection and tenderness for them, by calling them beloved , hereby evidencing that he added to godliness brotherly-kindness , as he had (2 Pet. 1:17) exhorted them to do. Ministers mus…
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