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2661 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1039.40 (Matthew Henry)
… for God, who will own you in his service; but then your carelessness and treachery are so much the worse if you neglect your work, for you wrong God and are false …
2662 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1040.24 (Matthew Henry)
… purpose to see if they could do Paul any service and if possible prevent his trouble, or at least minister to him in it, does not appear. The less while that Paul …
2663 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1040.49 (Matthew Henry)
… of God and the dread of his wrath. Note, God often makes the earth to help the woman ( Revelation 12:16 ), and those to be a protection to his people who yet have no affection …
2664 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1041.8 (Matthew Henry)
… ready to be employed in any service against the Christians. When they heard that many of the Jews at Damascus had embraced the Christian faith, to deter others …
2665 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1042.28 (Matthew Henry)
… to call, not to be called to, and he was ready to come at his call ( Acts 23:17 ); and he desired that he would introduce this young man to the chief captain, to give …
2666 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1045.10 (Matthew Henry)
… serving God day and night, hope to come to this promise, that is, to the good promised.” The people of Israel are called the twelve tribes, because so they were at …
2667 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1045.16 (Matthew Henry)
… did God good service in persecuting those who called on the name of Jesus Christ. Note, It is possible for those to be confident they are in the right who yet …
2668 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1046.9 (Matthew Henry)
… said to be caught by it, Acts 27:15. It was God that commanded this wind to rise, designing to bring glory to himself, and reputation to Paul, out of it; stormy winds …
2669 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1046.17 (Matthew Henry)
… in to take him for their God, and to serve him likewise; for the same reason Jonah said to his mariners, I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and …
2670 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1046.19 (Matthew Henry)
… further service. This is comfortable for the faithful servants of God in straits and difficulties, that as long as God has any work for them to do their lives …
2671 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1046.24 (Matthew Henry)
… eye to God in receiving our food, for it is sanctified to us by the word of God and prayer, and is to be received with thanksgiving. Thus the curse is taken off from …
2672 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1047.3 (Matthew Henry)
… as to give us an opportunity of being frequently serviceable to persons at a loss, we should not place it among the inconveniences of our lot, but the advantages …
2673 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1047.19 (Matthew Henry)
… did to Paul. They had heard much of his fame, what use God had made of him, and what eminent service he had done to the kingdom of Christ in the world, and to what multitudes …
2674 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1047.36 (Matthew Henry)
… first to be imprisoned, and then put to death. But to keep to this short account here given of it, 1. It would grieve one to think that such a useful man as Paul was …
2675 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1048.7 (Matthew Henry)
… with God. The called of Jesus Christ; all those, and those only, are brought to an obedience of the faith that are effectually called of Jesus Christ.
2676 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1049.20 (Matthew Henry)
… terror to sinners, or more comfort to saints, than this, that Christ shall be the Judge. (3.) The secrets of men shall then be judged. Secret services shall be then …
2677 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.6 (Matthew Henry)
… married to a new husband, we must change our way. Still we must serve, but it is a service that is perfect freedom, whereas the service of sin was a perfect drudgery …
2678 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1058.14 (Matthew Henry)
… occasions, to apply his discourse to the Gentiles, because he was the apostle of the Gentiles, appointed for the service of their faith, to plant and water churches …
2679 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1059.6 (Matthew Henry)
… attendance to our particular callings, and be willing to suffer for God with our bodies, when we are called to it. It is to yield the members of our bodies as instruments …
2680 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1060.7 (Matthew Henry)
… called God’s ministers. He is the minister of God, Romans 13:4, 13:6. Magistrates are in a more peculiar manner God’s servants; the dignity they have calls for …