24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
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And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. …
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound. …
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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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