1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
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Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle,(I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We have here the apostle’s solemn profession of a great concern for the nation and people of the Jews—that he was heartily troubled that so many of them were enemies to the gospel, and out of the way of salvation. For this he had great heaviness and continual sorrow . Such a profession as this was requisite to take off the odium which otherwise he might have contracted by asserting and proving the…
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