5Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
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Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. …
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
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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