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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)The design of Christ in giving himself for us is that he may purchase to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works . Now the apostle calls the believing Hebrews to the performance of many excellent duties, in which it becomes Christians to excel. I. To brotherly love (Heb. 13:1), by which he does not only mean a general affection to all men, as our brethren by nature, all made of the same b…
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