For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
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Gill's Exposition
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven,.... These words may be considered either in connection with the foregoing, and express the reason or motive which encouraged these saints to believe in…
Barnes' Notes
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven - That is, “I give thanks that there is such a hope laid up for you.” The evidence which he had that this hope was theirs, was founded on the faith and…
Here he proceeds to the body of the epistle, and begins with thanksgiving to God for what he had heard concerning them, though he had no personal acquaintance with them, and knew their state and…
Cambridge Bible
for the hope I.e. on account of the hope. "That blessed hope," full of Christ, and the object of an intensely unitedexpectation, gave special occasion, by its nature, for the exercise alike of the…
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