23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering;(for he is faithful that promised;)
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Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-39)I. Here the apostle sets forth the dignities of the gospel state. It is fit that believers should know the honours and privileges that Christ has procured for them, that, while they take the comfort, they may give him the glory of all. The privileges are, 1. Boldness to enter into the holiest. They have access to God, light to direct them, liberty of spirit and of speech to conform to the directio…
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