“Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
Equip you with everything good so that you may do his will, working in you that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen — the benediction invokes divine action: equipped (katarizo) with every good thing, the community will do God's will. The working (energeō) in believers produces what pleases God. Glory (doxa) and worship return to Christ eternally.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 13:21
“Now the God of peace,” he says (be ye not therefore at variance one with another), “that brought again from the earth the Shepherd of the sheep” Hebrews 13:20 (this is said concerning the resurrection) “the Great [Shepherd]” (another addition: here again he confirms to them even to the end, his discourse concerning the Resurrection) “through the blood of the everlasting covenant, our Lord Jesus Christ,” Hebrews 13:21 “make you perfect in every good work, to do His will,…
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