Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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Gill's Exposition
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will,.... The Alexandrian copy reads, "in every good work and word"; as in Th2 2:17 every good work is to be done: a good work is what is done in…
Barnes' Notes
Make you perfect - The apostle here does not affirm that they were then perfect, or that they would be in this life. The word used here - καταρτιζω katartizō - means to make fully ready; to put in…
Adam Clarke
Make you perfect - Καταρτισια ὑμας· Put you completely in joint. See the note on Co2 13:9, where the meaning of the original word is largely considered. From the following terms we see what the…
Here, I. The apostle recommends himself, and his fellow-sufferers, to the prayers of the Hebrew believers (Heb 13:18): "Pray for us; for me and Timothy" (mentioned Heb 13:23), "and for all those of us…
Cambridge Bible
make you perfect Not the verb so often used to express "perfecting" but another verb "may He fit" or "stablish" or "equip you."
to do his will, working in you … In the Greek there is a play on the…
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