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11Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
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Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: …
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. …
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-12)We have here the practical application of this gospel doctrine concerning the kingdom of the Messiah, by way of exhortation to the kings and judges of the earth. They hear that it is in vain to oppose Christ’s government; let them therefore be so wise for themselves as to submit to it. He that has power to destroy them shows that he has no pleasure in their destruction, for he puts them into a way…
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