2Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pray without ceasing. …
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 2-4)If this be considered as connected with the foregoing verse, then we may observe that it is part of the duty which masters owe their servants to pray with them, and to pray daily with them, or continue in prayer . They must not only do justly and kindly by them, but act a Christian and religious part, and be concerned for their souls as well as their bodies: “As parts of your charge, and under you…
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