11(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
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Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: …
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: …
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)The apostle, having made his way to that which he had to say, concerning the rejection of the body of his countrymen, with a protestation of his own affection for them and a concession of their undoubted privileges, comes in these verses, and the following part of the chapter, to prove that the rejection of the Jews, by the establishment of the gospel dispensation, did not at all invalidate the wo…
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