16And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
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And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: …
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. …
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-18)The apostle, having at large established the doctrine of the gospel, and endeavoured to persuade these Christians to a behaviour agreeable to it, seems as if he intended here to have put an end to the epistle, especially when he had acquainted them that, as a particular mark of his respect for them, he had written this large letter with his own hand, and had not made use of another as his amanuens…
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