19Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
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Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-23)We have in this chapter, I. An account of the unhappy contention which had broken out in the Christian church. Our Master had foretold that offences would come; and, it seems, so they did, for want of that wisdom and love which would have prevented discord, and kept up union among them. 1. There was a difference among them about the distinction of meats and days; these are the two things specified…
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