25Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
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For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. …
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-31)The apostle, having given us a more general account of the grace of faith, now proceeds to set before us some illustrious examples of it in the Old-Testament times, and these may be divided into two classes:—1. Those whose names are mentioned, and the particular exercise and actings of whose faith are specified. 2. Those whose names are barely mentioned, and an account given in general of the expl…
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