17From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
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For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
Are they ministers of Christ?(I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. …
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. …
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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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