19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
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Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-20)That the apostle might the better dispose these Christians to bear with him in the reproofs which he was obliged to give them, he here expresses his great affection to them, and the very tender concern he had for their welfare: he was not like them—one thing when among them and another when absent from them. Their disaffection to him had not removed his affection from them; but he still bore the s…
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