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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Hebrews 13 The apostle having finished the doctrinal part of this epistle, closes it with practical exhortations to these Hebrews, puts up prayers for them, and sends salutations to them. The exhortations are to brotherly love, and the continuance of it, Hebrews 13:1 to hospitality, by which some have entertained angels unawares, Hebrews 13:2, to sympathy with those that are in...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Marriage is honourable in all,.... Some read these words as an exhortation, "let" it "be so"; others as an assertion, it is so. "Marriage" is the union of one man and one woman in wedlock, whereby they become one flesh; it is a joining together of male and female in this relation, and of two only, and of such as are not within the degrees of blood forbid by the law, Leviticus 18:6 and of such as...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

The apostle, having treated largely of Christ, and faith, and free grace, and gospel privileges, and warned the Hebrews against apostasy, now, in the close of all, recommends several excellent duties to them, as the proper fruits of faith (ver. 1-17); he then bespeaks their prayers for him, and offers up his prayers to God for them, gives them some hope of seeing himself and Timothy, and ends...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. And terrible will be their doom when God does judge them. They may think that, because they sin in secret, therefore they shall escape punishment; but it shall not be so. Whether men judge them or not, God will judge them.

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. There is a fortune for you, that is a pension to fall back upon. You may very well be content to leave your temporal concerns in the hands of...