16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
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And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-18)The apostle, having instructed them in the doctrine of Christ’s second coming, I. Takes occasion thence to exhort them to purity and godliness in their whole conversation: all the truths which are revealed in scripture should be improved for our advancement in practical godliness: this is the effect that knowledge must produce, or we are never the better for it. If you know these things, happy are…
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