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The Cornerstone Biblical Commentary series provides up-to-date, evangelical scholarship on Scripture. This volume is designed to equip pastors and Christian leaders with exegetical and theological knowledge to better understand and apply God’s Word by presenting the message of each passage as well as an overview of other issues surrounding the text. The commentary has been structured to help...

The second result for believers is that they will be holoklēroi [TG3648, ZG3908], a medical metaphor that speaks of a “sound” or “whole” person. Louw and Nida (L&N 268) define its cognate as “a state of complete health or soundness in the whole body.” And this refers to the moral and spiritual wholeness of the individual. Davids (1982:70) calls this “a fully rounded uprightness” and defines it as “not just a maturing of character, but a rounding out as more and more ‘parts’ of the righteous character
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