12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
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And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-29)Here is a summary of the doctrine of the gospel concerning the great work of our redemption by Christ. It comes in here not as the matter of a sermon, but as the matter of a thanksgiving; for our salvation by Christ furnishes us with abundant matter of thanksgiving in every view of it: Giving thanks unto the Father , Col. 1:12. He does not discourse of the work of redemption in the natural order o…
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