15Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
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By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. …
For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-16)That these Christians might be the more ashamed of their defection from the truth of the gospel which Paul had preached to them, he here reminds them of the great affection they formerly had for him and his ministry, and puts them upon considering how very unsuitable their present behaviour was to what they then professed. And here we may observe, I. How affectionately he addresses himself to them…
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