6That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; …
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. …
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)I. In the Phlm. 1:1 , 2 of the preface we have the persons from and to whom it is written, with some annexed note or title, implying somewhat of argument to the purpose of the letter. 1. The persons writing: Paul, the principal, who calls himself a prisoner of Jesus Christ , that is, for Jesus Christ. To be a prisoner simply is no comfort nor honour; but such as Paul was, for the faith and preachi…
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