7For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-21)The apostle here describes the fountain and foundation of justification, laid in the death of the Lord Jesus. The streams are very sweet, but, if you run them up to the spring-head, you will find it to be Christ’s dying for us; it is in the precious stream of Christ’s blood that all these privileges come flowing to us: and therefore he enlarges upon this instance of the love of God which is shed a…
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