Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 15:58

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord , for as much as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord .

The Apostle concludeth his Discourse, proving the Resurrection of the Body from the dead, [illegible: 1 letter]ounding upon it an Exhortation to Holiness; which is here called the work of the Lord, because it is made up of works done by us at the command of Christ, and with a direct respect to his Glory in obedience to his Will. He mindeth them not only to do these things, but to do them stedfastly; not by fits, but never turning aside from them either one way or another; and unmoveably, so as no temptations either from dangers, or rewards, or false Teachers, should shake their Faith, as to the Principles, that lead unto such an holy life; this especially of the Resurrection from the dead.

Because they knew, that through the Grace of God, and the Merits of Christ, such works as these should not want their reward; for though the work of God be wages to it self, and Christians should not serve God meerly for wages, yet it is lawful for them (as for Moses) to have an eye to the Recompence of Reward; and a greater reward than this of the Resurrection of the Body to Eternal life, and that in a state of immortality and incorruption, in a spiritual and honourable estate, could not be.