20But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. …
What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-25)Here, I. The apostle enlarges further on the character of these evil men and seducers: they are murmurers, complainers , etc., Jude 1:16. Observe, A murmuring complaining temper, indulged and expressed, lays men under a very bad character; such are very weak at least, and for the most part very wicked. They murmur against God and his providence, against men and their conduct; they are angry at eve…
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