13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
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Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, …
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13)Here is another prayer directed to God, as the God of hope; and it is, as the former (Rom. 15:5), for spiritual blessings: these are the blest blessings, and to be first and chiefly prayed for. I. Observe how he addresses himself to God, as the God of hope . It is good in prayer to fasten upon those names, titles, and attributes of God, which are most suitable to the errand we come upon, and will…
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