39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. …
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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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