Galatians 6:18 Brothers, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. The apostle concludes the Epistle with his ordinary farewell wish; wherein, having designated them by the name of "brethren," he wishes that God's grace and favour, with all spiritual benefits flowing from it, and purchased and conveyed to them through Jesus Christ, might reside, both in the effects and sense of it, in their spirits and whole soul; and he affixes his "Amen," as an evidence of fervency, and confidence in his wish, and as a confirmation of the whole doctrine delivered by him in this Epistle. 1. The more of prejudice a minister apprehends to exist in a people or person against himself and his doctrine, the more ought he to endeavour by affectionate insinuations, and by frequent and seasonable reiterations of loving force, to root out those prejudices. 2. The main thing in people for which ministers ought to care, is the spirit and inward man, as that for which God mainly calls (Proverbs 23. 26), and being kept right, will command the outward man and keep it right also (Proverbs 4:23). (James Fergusson.) Parallel Verses KJV: Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. WEB: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. |
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