4Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. …
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? …
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. …
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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