8Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
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Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. …
But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, …
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-12)The doctrine John preached was that of repentance, in consideration of the kingdom of heaven being at hand ; now here we have the use of that doctrine. Application is the life of preaching, so it was of John’s preaching. Observe , 1. To whom he applied it; to the Pharisees and Sadducees that came to his baptism, Matt. 3:7. To others he thought it enough to say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is…
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