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1941 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 76.2 (Matthew Henry)
… God loves a cheerful giver, 2 Corinthians 9:7. What is laid out in the service of God, we must reckon well bestowed; and whatsoever is done in God's service, must …
1942 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 82.2 (Matthew Henry)
… from God, is always attended with a work to be done; to be employed for God is high honour. Those whom God calls to any service, he will find or make fit for it. The …
1943 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 86.5 (Matthew Henry)
… account to them. Those whom God called by name to his service, he filled with the Spirit of God. Skill, even in worldly employments, is God's gift, and comes from …
1944 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 92.4 (Matthew Henry)
… things God leaves us to fix what shall be spent in his service, whether of our time or our substance; yet where God's providence has put much into a man's power …
1945 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 93.2 (Matthew Henry)
… presented to God for us, and as being the Bread of life to our souls; but they rather seem to denote our obligation to God for the blessings of providence, and …
1946 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 96.2 (Matthew Henry)
… with God, and then we may expect that our services for his glory will be accepted by him. To show the loathsomeness of sin, the flour, when offered, must not be made …
1947 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 112.2 (Matthew Henry)
… is called to set a good example, that the people may follow it. Our bodily infirmities, blessed be God, cannot now shut us out from his service, from these privileges …
1948 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 114.6 (Matthew Henry)
… perfected. God appointed these feasts, "Beside the sabbaths and your free-will offerings." Calls to extraordinary services will not excuse from constant …
1949 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 119.4 (Matthew Henry)
… were called of God to the service. We all are unfit and unworthy to have fellowship with God, till called by his grace into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ …
1950 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 121.4 (Matthew Henry)
… is called the church of the first-born, which is redeemed, not as they were, with silver and gold; but, being devoted by sin to the justice of God, is ransomed with …
1951 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 122.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of this world, are many more than those devoted to the service of God. May our souls be wholly devoted to his service.
1952 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 125.3 (Matthew Henry)
… services, we are conscious that there is sin, there should be repentance, even in our most joyful services. In all approaches to God we must by faith look to Christ …
1953 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 126.3 (Matthew Henry)
… resolve to do the service of the tabernacle. As, on the one hand, none of God's creatures are his necessary servants, he needs not the service of any of them; so …
1954 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 134.2 (Matthew Henry)
… called of God to it. See here, 1. What spirit levellers are of; those who resist the powers God has set over them. 2. What usage they have been serviceable. Moses …
1955 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 146.2 (Matthew Henry)
… praises to God. Nothing is added here but that the wine poured out in the drink-offering is to be strong wine, to teach us to serve God with the best we have. It was …
1956 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 164.3 (Matthew Henry)
… . God's common gifts to mankind oblige us to honour all men. And those who have themselves been in distress, and have found mercy with God, should be ready to show …
1957 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 217.4 (Matthew Henry)
… pleased to accept the services of those who improve their talents to advance his cause. He requires every man to do so.
1958 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 227.4 (Matthew Henry)
… greatest services. Samson prayed to God in this distress. Those that forget to attend God their praises, may be compelled to attend him with their prayers …
1959 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 239.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of the sanctuary till they became customs, and led to abominations; and his sons, who should have taught those that engaged in the service of the …
1960 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 247.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the services to which we are called; but men should not go into the contrary extreme, by refusing the employments to which the Lord and the church call them …