Profane (βεβηλος). Trodden under foot, unhallowed (1 Timothy 1:9).

For one mess of meat (αντ β…

Lest there be any fornicator. The sin referred to here is one of those that would spread corruption in the church, and against which they …

Lest there be—Better (as in the last verse), whether there be. Though Jewish tradition (see, for example, the Targum of P…

And holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness sp…

(3) The final warning begins with a reference to the “sexually immoral” (GK 4521), a warning that occurs frequently in Scripture. With this is coup…

Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, etc. As he had previously exhorted them to holiness, so now, so that he might rec…

Lest there be any fornicator or profane person
The first of these is guilty of a sin against the second table of the…

A burden of affliction tends to make the Christian's hands hang down and his knees grow feeble, to dishearten and discourage him; but he must striv…

Having indicated how we should behave toward the enduring evils of chastisement, the Apostle now shows how we should act to avoid the evils of guil…