7Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)This chapter has a plain connexion with the close of the foregoing chapter, but a very surprising one. It was there said that Jacob and Israel would not walk in God’s ways, and that when he corrected them for their disobedience they were stubborn and laid it not to heart; and now one would think it should have followed that God would utterly abandon and destroy them; but no, the next words are, Bu…
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