3Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
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Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
For 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.
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. …
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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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