1 Corinthians 16:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Stand fast, &c.— There is no need of seeking a different sense of each word in this verse. If there be any difference, the word ανδριζεσθε may refer to a strength of resolution; and the word κραταιουσθε to that cheerful and courageous expectation of a happy event, which the consciousness of so good a cause would naturally administer. The meaning of the next verse is, "Let all your affairs be transacted in love, and under the influence of that noble principle of unfeigned benevolence which I have so largely described," ch. 13; the Apostle's main design being to put an end to the faction and division which the false apostle had made among them, it is no wonder that we find unity and love so much and so often pressed in this and the second epistle.