16Do not err, my beloved brethren.
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Let brotherly love continue.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-18)I. We are here taught that God is not the author of any man’s sin. Whoever they are who raise persecutions against men, and whatever injustice and sin they may be guilty of in proceeding against them, God is not to be charged with it. And, whatever sins good men may themselves be provoked to by their exercises and afflictions, God is not the cause of them. It seems to be here supposed that some pr…
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