10But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
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And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)In the former chapter the apostle had represented the state of the Gentile world to be as bad and black as the Jews were ready enough to pronounce it. And now, designing to show that the state of the Jews was very bad too, and their sin in many respects more aggravated, to prepare his way he sets himself in this part of the chapter to show that God would proceed upon equal terms of justice with Je…
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