34For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
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To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. …
For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: …
Commentary
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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