12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
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Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-12)Christ begins his sermon with blessings, for he came into the world to bless us (Acts 3:26), as the great High Priest of our profession ; as the blessed Melchizedec ; as He in whom all the families of the earth should be blessed , Gen. 12:3. He came not only to purchase blessings for us, but to pour out and pronounce blessings on us; and here he does it as one having authority , as one that can co…
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