17Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. …
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-18)The apostle exhorts them in these verses to adorn their Christian profession by a suitable temper and behaviour, in several instances. 1. By a cheerful obedience to the commands of God (Phil. 2:14): “ Do all things , do your duty in every branch of it, without murmurings . Do it, and do not find fault with it. Mind your work, and do not quarrel with it.” God’s commands were given to be obeyed, not…
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