23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-26)In the latter part of this chapter the apostle comes to exhort these Christians to serious practical godliness, as the best antidote against the snares of the false teachers. Two things especially he presses upon them:— I. That they should not strive with one another, but love one another. He tells them (Gal. 5:13) that they had been called unto liberty , and he would have them to stand fast in th…
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