11And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
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And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. …
And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The chapter begins with a melancholy but , which puts a stop to the pleasant and agreeable prospect of things which we had in the foregoing chapters; as every man, so every church, in its best state has its but . 1. The disciples were very holy, and heavenly, and seemed to be all exceedingly good; but there were hypocrites among them, whose hearts were not right in the sight of God , who, when the…
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