for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.Romans 15:4 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleFor whatsoever things were written aforetime - This refers not only to the quotation from the 69th Psalm, but to all the Old Testament scriptures; for it can be to no other scriptures that the apostle alludes. And, from what he says here of them, we learn that God had not intended them merely for those generations in which they were first delivered, but for the instruction of all the succeeding generations of mankind. That we, through patience and comfort of the scriptures - that we, through those remarkable examples of patience exhibited by the saints and followers of God, whose history is given in those scriptures, and the comfort which they derived from God in their patient endurance of sufferings brought upon them through their faithful attachment to truth and righteousness, might have hope that we shall be upheld and blessed as they were, and our sufferings become the means of our greater advances in faith and holiness, and consequently our hope of eternal glory be the more confirmed. Some think that the word παρακλησις, which we translate comfort, should be rendered exhortation; but there is certainly no need here to leave the usual acceptation of the term, as the word comfort makes a regular and consistent sense with the rest of the verse.
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Romans 4:23,24 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him...
1 Corinthians 9:9,10 For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn. Does God take care for oxen...
1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened to them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the world are come.
2 Timothy 3:16,17 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction...
2 Peter 1:20,21 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation...
for our learning. Rather, 'for our instruction.'
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Romans 5:3-5 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience...
Romans 8:24,25 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for...
Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Psalm 119:81-83 My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word...
Hebrews 6:10-19 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have showed toward his name...
Hebrews 10:35,36 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward...
James 5:7-11 Be patient therefore, brothers, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth...
1 Peter 1:13 Why gird up the loins of your mind, be sober...
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