1Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. …
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. …
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; …
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)The apostle proceeds in the plain profitable method of doctrine, reason, and use, through this epistle. Here we have the application of the truths before asserted and proved; this is brought in by the illative particle therefore , with which this chapter begins, and which shows its connection with the former, where the apostle having proved Christ to be superior to the angels by whose ministry the…
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