18Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
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Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-18)Having thus encouraged Timothy to suffer, he comes in the next place to direct him in his work. I. He must make it his business to edify those who were under his charge, to put them in remembrance of those things which they did already know; for this is the work of ministers; not to tell people that which they never knew before, but to put them in mind of that which they do know, charging them tha…
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