4Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
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Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; …
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The apostle is here dealing with those who, having embraced the faith of Christ, still continued to seek for justification by the works of the law; that is, who depended upon their own obedience to the moral precepts as their righteousness before God, and, wherein that was defective, had recourse to the legal sacrifices and purifications to make it up. These he first sharply reproves, and then end…
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