7Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
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And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; …
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
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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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