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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Despise not prophesyings. If they are vain and false, despise them if you will, but that prophecy especially which deals with the Word of God, for the Word here does not signify merely prophecies of the future — it is often used of regular preaching. Despise not anyone who speaks in God’s name. He may speak with blunders of grammar — forget them;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. Not from that which other people choose to think evil, but from all real evil whatever it is — even from the very shadow that it casts and the shape which it assumes.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Prove all things,.... That are said by the prophets, all the doctrines which they deliver; hear them, though they have not the gift of tongues, and all desirable advantages; do not reject them on that account, and refuse to hear them, for so, many useful men may be laid aside, and the Spirit of God in them be quenched; try their gifts, and attend...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. That first sentence is got to be quite a proverb, but that last, I believe, is taken away, which is another instance of the common truth that half the truth is a lie. You must give it all or none. “Prove all things,” is mischievous teaching, unless you “hold fast that which is good.” And, after all,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Abstain from all appearance of evil. Of doctrinal evil. Not only open error and heresy are to be avoided, but what has any show of it, or looks like it, or carries in it a suspicion of it, or may be an occasion thereof, or lead unto it; wherefore all new words and phrases of this kind should be shunned, and the form of sound words held fast; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Abstain from all appearance of evil. By which is not meant as some read it, “from everything that somebody likes to say looks like evil.” This would be to mar the Christian liberty. But wherever evil puts in an appearance, when it appears to be good, when it has been dressed out — for the word may refer to a Roman spectacle, or grand procession....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the very God of peace,.... Or "the God of peace himself". The apostle follows his exhortations with prayer to God, knowing the weakness and impotency of the saints to receive them, and act according to them, and his own insufficiency to impress their minds with them; and that unless the Lord opened their ears to discipline, and sealed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the Christian man there is a trinity. His nobler nature is that which he got when he was regenerated, and it is his spirit. His soul he has got, in common with other men. His body he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us. Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. Give one another a hearty shake of the hands. That is the western...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Faithful is he that calleth you,.... Into the fellowship of his Son, and to his kingdom and glory, and who continues to do so, not only externally by his word, but internally by his Spirit and grace. Who also will do it. Two things the apostle mentions as the ground of confidence that the above petition, would be heard and answered; that is, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. What a word of good cheer that is. Sanctification often seems to be a thing far off, but he will do it. He that called will perfect. The work which his wisdom began, the arm of his strength will complete.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Brethren, pray for us. Which is added with great beauty and propriety, after the apostle had so earnestly and affectionately prayed for them; and this is directed, not to the pastors of the church only, but to all the members of it, whom the apostle styles "brethren" in a spiritual relation, as he often does; and of whom he requests, that they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, pray for us. Because sometimes people think that those of high spiritual attainments do not need their prayers, Remember, if they have a higher position, they have greater dangers.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. In opposition, to an unchaste and hypocritical one. His meaning is, that they would salute the members of the church in his name, and give his Christian love and affections to them. And his view is to recommend to them brotherly love to each other, and to stir them up to the mutual exercise of it more and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. This was the token of friendship in the East. To attempt to import it to the West would be not only absurd, but wicked. I may properly read them, “Greet all the brethren witch a hearty shake of the hand; keep up the outward form of fellowship, for if you don’t you will soon forget the fellowship itself.”...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I charge you by the Lord,.... Or "I adjure by the Lord"; by the Lord Jesus: it is in the form of an oath, and a very solemn one; and shows that oaths may be used on certain and solemn occasions: that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren; to all the members of the church, who are called "holy", because they were sanctified or set apart...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. The Pope would charge you that it be read to nobody; but who is he? It seems that this Epistle was intended to be read by all the Church, and so also the whole Bible. It is said it is not safe to trust it with the brethren; it is not safe to trust them without it; it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. This exposition consisted of readings from 1Th_4:13-18; and 1 Thessalonians 5.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, Amen. This is the apostle's usual salutation in all his epistles, and the token of the genuineness of them, 2 Thessalonians 3:17. [See comments on Romans 16:20], [See comments on 1 Corinthians 15:23], [See comments on 2 Corinthians 13:14]. The subscription to this epistle is not genuine, which runs...