2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
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God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
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,
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: …
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Here is the preface to the epistle, showing, I. The writer. Paul , a Gentile name taken by the apostle of the Gentiles, Acts 13:9 , 46 , 47 . Ministers will accommodate even smaller matters, so that they may be any furthering of acceptance in their work. When the Jews rejected the gospel, and the Gentiles received it, we read no more of this apostle by his Jewish name Saul , but by his Roman one,…
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