Keep your selves] See on v. 20. 1 Timothy 5:22. in the love of God] Whereby ye love God. Persevere constantly to love him, and do it daily more and more. Or, whereby God loveth you: by doing nothing that may make him take away the sense of his favour from you, or cause him to frown upon you. looking for the mercy of our Lord, &c.] Looking for that mercifull sentence of Christ at the day of judgement, whereby he will bestow eternal life on us, that have deserved eternal misery, Matthew 25:34.