19For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. …
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-20)The apostle having endeavoured by his endearing salutations to unite them together, it was not improper to subjoin a caution to take heed of those whose principles and practices were destructive to Christian love. And we may observe, I. The caution itself, which is given in the most obliging manner that could be: I beseech you, brethren . He does not will and command, as one that lorded it over Go…
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