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Gill's Exposition
And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God,.... Not a believer's own spirit, sanctified by the Holy Ghost, which is grieved by sin; nor the spirit of a good man, that hears our words and sees our actions,…
Barnes' Notes
Neither give place to the devil - This has respect probably to the exhortation in the former verse. “Do not yield to the suggestions and temptations of Satan, who would take every opportunity to…
Adam Clarke
Neither give place to the devil - Your adversary will strive to influence your mind, and irritate your spirit; watch and pray that he may not get any place in you, or ascendancy over you.
As the word…
The apostle having gone through his exhortation to mutual love, unity, and concord, in the foregoing verses, there follows in these an exhortation to Christian purity and holiness of heart and life,…
Cambridge Bible
give place to the devil The rendering suggested by some, "to the calumniator," the heathen or Jewish slanderer, is quite untenable, in view of St Paul's use elsewhere of the word diabolos(lit.,…
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