to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:

'Patience in well doing' -'insistent good behaviour strive' (Ber); 'steadfast endurance in well-doing' (Con).

'Seek for' -'strive for, aim at'. Suffice to say that anyone 'seeking' for eternal life, will obey whatever conditions, and believe whatever truths necessary to be right with God. This weeds out the 'seekers' from the 'pretenders' (Romans 2:8 'obey not the truth')

'Eternal life' -defined in this verse as. place of glory (brightness), honor (esteem, respect), and incorruption (not decay, hence no death). (Acts 10:34).

Eternal life is more than 'eternal existence'.

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