Live under Christ’s Reconciling Headship

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Paul applied the fact of God’s reconciliation with man to the lives of all believers and declared himself a servant of that truth (1:21–23). The “But” (1:23) does not cast doubt on the security of truly saved people (John 10:28) but stresses the fact that the proof of the genuineness of the believers’ salvation is their continuance in faith and hope. More

Hughes, Robert B., and J. Carl Laney. Tyndale Concise Bible Commentary. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2001. Print. The Tyndale Reference Library.