3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. …
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; …
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. 1-4)Here we have, I. The introduction ( 2 Thess. 1:1 , 2 ), in the same words as in the former epistle, from which we may observe that as this apostle did not count it grievous to him to write the same things (Phil. 3:1) in his epistles that he had delivered in preaching, so he willingly wrote the same things to one church that he did to another. The occurrence of the same words in this epistle as in…
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