19In your patience possess ye your souls.
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For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-19)See here, I. With what admiration some spoke of the external pomp and magnificence of the temple, and they were some of Christ’s own disciples too; and they took notice of it to him how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts , Luke 21:5. The outside was built up with goodly stones, and within it was beautified and enriched with the presents that were offered up for that purpose, and were hung…
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