6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
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And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. …
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, …
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-6)The apostle proceeds after the inscription and benediction to thanksgiving for the saints at Philippi. He tells them what it was he thanked God for, upon their account. Observe here, I. Paul remembered them: he bore them much in his thoughts; and though they were out of sight, and he was at a distance from them, yet they were not out of his mind: or, Upon every mention of you — epi pase te mneia .…
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