Hebrews 13:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

HEBREWS CHAPTER 13 Hebrews 13:1 Exhortations to charity, Hebrews 13:2 hospitality, Hebrews 13:3 pity for the afflicted, Hebrews 13:4 chastity, Hebrews 13:5,6 contentment, Hebrews 13:7,8 to regard the preachers of God's word, Hebrews 13:9 to avoid strange doctrines, Hebrews 13:10-14 to confess Christ, Hebrews 13:11-15 to offer up our praises to God by him, Hebrews 13:16 to do good and to communicate, Hebrews 13:17 to obey spiritual rulers, Hebrews 13:18,19 and to pray for the apostle. Hebrews 13:20-25 The apostle endeth with a prayer and salutations. The apostle in this chapter pursueth his counsel to the subjects of the unmoveable kingdom of Christ, for their performing suitable duties to such a privilege, and especially such as more immediately terminate on their neighbour, and are contained in the second table of the Redeemer's laws; as the chief and fundamental one, brotherly love. Let love, a fruit of the Spirit, show forth itself and its existence in you, in pre-eminence, and in duration, by disposing always the inward man, mind, will, and affections, to seek the good, to speak all the good to and of, and to do all good to their Christian brethren, to all true Christians, eminently styled by the Spirit the brotherhood, Matthew 12:50; Matthew 28:10; 1 Thessalonians 13:34,35 1 Thessalonians 20:17 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Ephesians 4:32 1 Thessalonians 4:9 1 John 3:14,16.