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Faithful is he who calls you, who will also do it.
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God Finishes What He Starts
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse is a profound source of assurance. Your sanctification and preservation do not ultimately depend on your own strength, but on God's character. As Albert Barnes notes, because God has begun a work of grace in you, you can depend on His faithfulness to complete it. He who called you will see it through.
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1 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Faithful is he that calleth you. That is, your sanctification after all depends on Him, and as He has begun a work of grace in your hearts…
Faithful (πιστος). God, he means, who calls and will carry through (). 1 Thessalonians 5:25
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19th Century
Anglican
Faithful is he.—A reason for hoping confidently that they will be blamelessly preserved. God would forfeit His character for keep…
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Baptist
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our…
To Paul, utterance of a prayer was not the end, but only the means to it. One who asks God for something can anticipate the fulfillment of that req…
16th Century
Protestant
Faithful is he that hath called you. As he has shown by his prayer what care he exercised regarding the welfare of the Thessalonians, so h…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Faithful is he that calleth you Into the fellowship of his Son, and to his kingdom and glory, and who continues to d…
The apostle prays that they might be sanctified more perfectly, for the best are sanctified only in part while in this world; therefore, we should …
13th Century
Catholic
Earlier, he showed them how they should remain subject to their bishops. Here he makes the same point from another point of view. Regarding this, h…
