Hebrews 13:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. ”

• Hebrews 13:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Pray for us - This is a request which the apostle often makes in his own behalf, and in behalf of his fellow laborers in the gospel; see 1 Thessalonians 5:25 . notes, Ephesians 6:18-19 . For...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (11) Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. (11) The last part of this epistle, in which he commends his ministry to the Hebrews, and wishes the...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Admonitions concerning Church discipline. The brethren are to cherish the memory of their former leaders, who instructed them in the truth of God and exemplified it in their life and death. Jesus Chr...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Pray . Greek. proseuchomai. App-134. trust . Greek. peitho . App-150.:2. conscience . See Acts 23:1 . willing . Greek. thelo . App-102. live . Greek. anastrepho. See Hebrews 10:33 ....

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  18. For we trust, etc. After having commended himself to their prayers, in order to excite them to pray, he declares that he had a good conscience. Though indeed our prayers ought to e...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. Pray for us - Even the success of apostles depended, in a certain way, on the prayers of the Church. Few C...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For we trust we have a good conscience,— For we are confident that we have a good conscience, determined in all things to behave honourably. It is reasonable to think that the apostle particularl...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. Pray for us. Paul usually requests the church's intercessions in closing his letters, as he begins...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Advice, Memories, Prayers, Greetings The Epistle concludes with various exhortations in regard to the social life ( Hebrews 13:1-3 ), private life ( Hebrews 13:4-6 ), the religious life ( Hebrews...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The following verses — containing personal notices relating to the writer himself and his readers ( Hebrews 13:18-19 ; Hebrews 13:22-23 ), a prayer on their behalf ( Hebrews 13:20-21 ), a doxology (...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XVI. SUNDRY EXHORTATIONS. Hebrews 13:1-25 Let love of the brethren continue. Forget not to shew love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them th...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Praise, Prayer, and Peace Hebrews 13:14-25 Notice that though the ancient sacrifices have been abolished, there is one which can never grow old-the sacrifice of praise . This incense must ever...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The last chapter contains a series of general exhortations. It is evident that the letter was sent to those whose faith was being challenged and weakened, and whose love, therefore, was cooling. Thes...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (17) Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofi...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Pray for us ,.... Who are in the ministry; your guides and governors; since the work is of so much moment, and so arduous and awful, and you have such a concern in it; 2 Thessalonians 3:1 . for w...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. Ver. 18. Willing to live honestly ] Tantum velis, et Deus tibi praeoccurret. David could wish well t...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Pray for us For our freedom and success in preaching the gospel, (see the margin,) and our deliverance from the enemies of the faith; for Though our enemies may meanly insinuate the contrary, and...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The first six verses of this chapter have a striking moral relationship to what has gone before. We have seen that though God's dispensational ways have undergone a mighty change in the advent of His...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Conclusion. A. D.  62.       18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things wil...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Pray for us: the closing duty becoming the subjects of the kingdom of Christ, is prayer, upon some special accounts, Hebrews 13:18,19 , that they would with their renewed souls, influenced and a...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Final Exhortation and A Prayer For His Readers ( Hebrews 13:17-22 ). So having finally made the great divide between Jerusalem and all that it had come to stand for, and Christianity with its whol...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 13:20 . God of peace. — Romans 15:33 ; Romans 16:20 ; Philippians 4:9 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:23 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:16 . Translate the verse, “Who brought...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Hebrews 13:17-25 I. The Author of peace. From all eternity God purposed in Himself the counsel of peace; and when, by reason of sin, discord and misery came into the world, the Lord always comfort...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  This is a practical chapter at the close of this most instructive Epistle. Hebrews 13:1 . Let brotherly love continue. The word «continue» implies that the «brotherly love» exists, there are man...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hebrews 13:1 . Let brotherly love continue. The love as when you first believed, and when many of you sold your possessions to raise a fund for the widows, who were cut off from the alms of the sy...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Pray for us Prayer for ministers I. SOME CONSIDERATIONS TO ILLUSTRATE AND CONFIRM THE NECESSITY OF SUCH PRAYER. 1. The awful responsibility of the ministerial office. 2. We are men of lik...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS EXPOSITION As in St. Paul's Epistles, practical directions as to conduct conclude the treatise, such as the readers may be supposed to have especially needed. They a...

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• Hebrews 13:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

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• Hebrews 13:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 2:12 ; 1 Peter 3:16 ; 1 Peter 3:21 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:12 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:25 ; 1 Timothy 1:5 ; 2 Corinthians 1:12 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:1 ; Acts 23:1 ; Acts 24:16 ; Colossians 4:...

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