To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
God alone is the only wise God, and everlasting glory belongs to Him alone, through Jesus Christ, forever. The verse closes the doxology to the God who is able to establish believers according to the gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began but now made manifest and by the Scriptures of the prophets made known to all nations for the obedience of faith by the command of the everlasting God. That establishing work rests on this revealed mystery, once hidden and now declared among all nations for obedience to the faith.
The only wise points to the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom ordained before the world for the glory of believers, which is known by experiential knowledge of Jesus Christ rather than by persuasive words of human wisdom. That hidden mystery is the gospel plan put into action as soon as humanity sinned, when Christ became priest after the order of Melchizedek and the gospel was preached in Eden that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head while the serpent would wound his heel. This lit the dark and dismal future with hope as with a star, so that the fallen race under the dominion of death would live as prisoners of hope and not be left to perish into extinction. None of the rulers of this world knew this hidden wisdom, for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory, while the other worlds God had created watched the apostasy with intense interest.
As the only wise God, He is the blessed and only Potentate, King of kings and Lord of lords, wonderful in counsel, who stands behind His promises, remembers His covenant, keeps truth forever without unfaithfulness, and whose truth endures to all generations. He is always the same, with mighty arm and strong and exalted hand, able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that can be asked or thought, so that if He is for His people none can be against them, and in Him is everlasting strength. Therefore His Word, which is yes and amen in Christ Jesus, is to be believed and honored, needs are to be brought to the heavenly Father as a child asks an earthly parent, trust is to rest in the Lord forever, and distrust grieves the Spirit of God. The sacred Word connected with the verse has enduring power and must be taught continually, at all times and in all places, because nothing else can take its place as truth against error.
The verse closes the charge to mark and avoid those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to learned doctrine, who serve themselves rather than Christ and deceive the simple by good words and fair speeches, while commending obedience that has become widely known and urging wisdom toward good and simplicity toward evil. It calls for earnest, wholehearted, sensible men and women first taught by Christ what is truth, whose obedience sanctifies the soul and makes them Christlike in thought, word, and deed, whose habits, practices, and ideas are brought into conformity to the Word, and who stand ready in defense of the truth. The words of the verse were spoken aloud in meetings marked by the power of the Holy Spirit, living testimony to eternal life, fervent intercessory prayer, conviction, conversion and reconversion, bringing souls from darkness into light.
The verse means physicians in a perilous profession with spiritual dangers are to feel and fear the danger and seek needed wisdom from God alone. He answers by guiding them by His Spirit on a path whose end is glory, enabling and qualifying them to minister to the soul as well as to the body and to escape danger. Those who feel this peril seek wisdom from Him as the source of wisdom needed in such work.
God alone is the only wise God, and everlasting glory belongs to Him alone, through Jesus Christ, forever. The verse closes the doxology to the God who is able to establish believers according to the gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began but now made manifest and by the Scriptures of the prophets made known to all nations for the obedience of faith by the command of the everlasting God. That establishing work rests on this revealed mystery, once hidden and now declared among all nations for obedience to the faith.
The only wise points to the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom ordained before the world for the glory of believers, which is known by experiential knowledge of Jesus Christ rather than by persuasive words of human wisdom. That hidden mystery is the gospel plan put into action as soon as humanity sinned, when Christ became priest after the order of Melchizedek and the gospel was preached in Eden that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head while the serpent would wound his heel. This lit the dark and dismal future with hope as with a star, so that the fallen race under the dominion of death would live as prisoners of hope and not be left to perish into extinction. None of the rulers of this world knew this hidden wisdom, for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory, while the other worlds God had created watched the apostasy with intense interest.
As the only wise God, He is the blessed and only Potentate, King of kings and Lord of lords, wonderful in counsel, who stands behind His promises, remembers His covenant, keeps truth forever without unfaithfulness, and whose truth endures to all generations. He is always the same, with mighty arm and strong and exalted hand, able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that can be asked or thought, so that if He is for His people none can be against them, and in Him is everlasting strength. Therefore His Word, which is yes and amen in Christ Jesus, is to be believed and honored, needs are to be brought to the heavenly Father as a child asks an earthly parent, trust is to rest in the Lord forever, and distrust grieves the Spirit of God. The sacred Word connected with the verse has enduring power and must be taught continually, at all times and in all places, because nothing else can take its place as truth against error.
The verse closes the charge to mark and avoid those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to learned doctrine, who serve themselves rather than Christ and deceive the simple by good words and fair speeches, while commending obedience that has become widely known and urging wisdom toward good and simplicity toward evil. It calls for earnest, wholehearted, sensible men and women first taught by Christ what is truth, whose obedience sanctifies the soul and makes them Christlike in thought, word, and deed, whose habits, practices, and ideas are brought into conformity to the Word, and who stand ready in defense of the truth. The words of the verse were spoken aloud in meetings marked by the power of the Holy Spirit, living testimony to eternal life, fervent intercessory prayer, conviction, conversion and reconversion, bringing souls from darkness into light.
The verse means physicians in a perilous profession with spiritual dangers are to feel and fear the danger and seek needed wisdom from God alone. He answers by guiding them by His Spirit on a path whose end is glory, enabling and qualifying them to minister to the soul as well as to the body and to escape danger. Those who feel this peril seek wisdom from Him as the source of wisdom needed in such work.