22And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
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We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-25)Here, I. The apostle recommends himself, and his fellow-sufferers, to the prayers of the Hebrew believers (Heb. 13:18): “ Pray for us ; for me and Timothy” (mentioned Heb. 13:23), “and for all those of us who labour in the ministry of the gospel.” 1. This is one part of the duty which people owe to their ministers. Ministers need the prayers of the people; and the more earnestly the people pray fo…
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