1Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
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Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The apostle begins the chapter with exhortations to divers Christian duties. I. To stedfastness in our Christian profession, Phil. 4:1. It is inferred from the close of the foregoing chapter: Therefore stand fast , etc. Seeing our conversation is in heaven , and we look for the Saviour to come thence and fetch us thither, therefore let us stand fast . Note, The believing hope and prospect of etern…
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