2Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
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I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; …
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here is, I. The preface, showing, 1. To whom this letter is directed: To the angel of the church of Sardis , an ancient city of Lydia, on the banks of the mountain Tmolus, said to have been the chief city of Asia the Less, and the first city in that part of the world that was converted by the preaching of John; and, some say, the first that revolted from Christianity, and one of the first that was…
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