22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
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That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
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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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