1 Peter 2 - Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

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Elders exhorted and encouraged.

A Christian conversation must be honest; which it cannot be, if there is not a just and careful discharge of all relative duties: the apostle here treats of these distinctly. Regard to those duties is the will of God, consequently, the Christian's duty, and the way to silence the base slanders of ignorant and foolish men. Christians must endeavour, in all relations, to behave aright, that they do not make their liberty a cloak or covering for any wickedness, or for the neglect of

duty; but they must remember that they are servants of God. (1Pe 2:18-25)

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