16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,(by grace ye are saved;) …
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. …
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-18)In these verses, I. The evangelist begins again to give us John Baptist’s testimony concerning Christ, John 1:15. He had said (John 1:8) that he came for a witness ; now here he tells us that he did accordingly bear witness . Here, Observe, 1. How he expressed his testimony: He cried , according to the prediction that he should be the voice of one crying . The Old-Testament prophets cried aloud, t…
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