28When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.
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Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-29)St. Paul here declares his purpose to come and see the Christians at Rome. Upon this head his matter is but common and ordinary, appointing a visit to his friends; but the manner of his expression is gracious and savoury, very instructive, and for our imitation. We should learn by it to speak of our common affairs in the language of Canaan. Even our common discourse should have an air of grace; by…
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