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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Dearly beloved, I beseech you,.... The apostle, from characters of the saints, and which express their blessings and privileges, with great beauty, propriety, and pertinency, passes to exhortations to duties; he addresses the saints under this affectionate appellation, "dearly beloved", to express his great love to them, and to show that what he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims,- For you belong not to the corruptible world, you are of an incorruptible race: “I beseech you as strangers and pilgrim,”-
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul: having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers,- Which they are sure to do. The better you are, the more will they censure you. This is the only homage that evil can pay to good, to fall foul of it, and misrepresent it: “ that whereas...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Dearly beloved, I beseech you — Peter puts his hands together, and pleads with intense earnestness. 1Pe_2:11. As strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Those fleshly lusts belong to this present evil world, but you do not belong to it; you are “strangers and pilgrims” here, therefore feel an absolute...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;- Fleshly lusts always hurt the soul. They do serious injury to the body, for they are contrary to the laws of health; but the main point for you to consider is that they “war against the soul.” No men or women can ever commit an act of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain frown fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles,.... To have the conversation honest, is to provide things honest in the sight of men; to live and walk honestly before all; to do those things which are right and honest in the sight of God, and among men; to order the conversation aright, according to the law of God, which is a rule of walk and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. through the efficacy of his great atoning sacrifice. God grant it, for Jesus’ sake! Amen. This exposition consisted of readings from 1Pe_1:17-25; and 1Pe_2:1-12.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers,- As they are sure to do, for none are so certain to be slandered as the pure; and the more clean you are in God’s sight, the more will you excite the animosity of ungodly men, and they will show it by slandering you: “that, whereas they speak...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. True Christians give no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: You are not to be disturbers of the peace; you Christian people are to cultivate the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers,- This they are sure to do, and the more holy your life is, the more they will probably speak against you. Even if you could live like an angel, some would call you a devil, but you are not to be judged by men’s judgment, thank God for that, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves to every ordinances of man for the Lord’s sake:” — We are to obey kings, and governors, and magistrates, even when they may not be all that we wish them to be: “Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake:” —
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man,.... Or, "to every human creation", or "creature"; not to "all the sons of men", as the Syriac version renders it; or to all the individuals of mankind; for there are some that are in such stations and circumstances, that they are not to be submitted to, but to be ruled over, and governed: so kings are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whether it be to the king, as supreme; In Peter’s day, the king was a poor creature, and something worse than that. Indeed, I might say of the bulk of the Emperors of Rome, who were the chief “kings” of that day, that they were monsters of iniquity; yet the office was to be respected even when the man who occupied it could not be; much more should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: Ignorance, you see, is a noisy thing. An empty drum makes a loud noise when it is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Or unto governors,.... Inferior magistrates, such as were under the Roman emperor; as proconsuls, procurators, c. such as Pontius Pilate, Felix, and Festus, who had under the emperor the government of particular nations, provinces, and cities: as unto them that are sent by him either by the king, the Roman emperor, by whom they were sent, from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: as free, — Free in yourselves, free in your conscience, free in your mind and heart.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For so is the will of God,.... Which refers not so much to what goes before; though it is a truth, that it is the will of God that men should be subject to magistrates, and that magistrates should encourage virtue, and discourage vice, reward the obedient, and punish delinquents; but to what follows: that with well doing; by doing good works, and...