The apostle having, in the foregoing chapter, exhorted Christians by love to serve one another, and also cautioned us against a temper which, if indulged, would hinder us from showing the mutual love and serviceableness which he had recommended, in the beginning of this chapter he proceeds to give some further directions, which, if duly observed, would both promote the one and prevent the other of these, and render our behavior both more agreeable to our Christian profession and more useful and comfortable to one another: particularly, we are here taught to deal tenderly with those who are overtaken in a fault…The duty we are directed to – to restore such; we should labour, by faithful reproofs, and pertinent and seasonable councils, to bring them to repentance. The original word…signifies to set in joint, as a dislocated bone; accordingly we should endeavor to set them in joint again, to bring them to themselves, by convincing them of their sin and error, persuading them to return to their duty, comforting them in a sense of pardoning mercy thereupon, and having thus recovered them, confirming our love to them…Many needful reproofs lose their efficacy by being given in wrath…. – Matthew Henry
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