7That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Here is the fourth thing in the matter of the epistle. The apostle had directed Titus in reference to the particular and special duties of several sorts of persons; now he bids him exhort to what concerned them more in common, namely, to quietness and submission to rulers, and readiness to do good, and to equitable and gentle behaviour towards all men—things comely and ornamental of religion; he m…
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