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2061 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 57.10 (Matthew Henry)
… ought to humble us, yet they ought not to discourage us from doing our best in any service we have to do for God. His strength is made perfect in our weakness.
2062 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 61.12 (Matthew Henry)
… possessions to the service of God, because we know not what use God will make of what we have, nor in what way we may be called upon to honour God with it. 2. Yet it …
2063 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 68.3 (Matthew Henry)
… that God governed the world; and his special promise—whether he would be as good as his word to them. This is called their tempting God, which signifies, not only …
2064 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 68.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of God in my hand, Exodus 17:9. See how God qualifies his people for, and calls them to, various services for the good of his church: Joshua fights, Moses prays, and …
2065 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 69.4 (Matthew Henry)
… said to his father, I have not known him, when service was to be done for God, Deuteronomy 33:9. Thus Christ’s disciples, when they were to go upon an expedition …
2066 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 69.11 (Matthew Henry)
… them to do good. It is the honour even of angels themselves to be serviceable. [3.] Though the people had been provoking to him, and were ready to stone him ( Exodus …
2067 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 70.3 (Matthew Henry)
… us to God. This God aims at in all the gracious methods of his providence and grace, to bring us back to himself, from whom we have revolted, and to bring us home …
2068 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 74.9 (Matthew Henry)
… be called a melancholy thing, when its solemn services are solemn feasts. 4. They must not appear before God empty, Exodus 23:15. Some free-will offering or other …
2069 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 75.13 (Matthew Henry)
… satisfaction to him to have him with him as a companion, during the six days that he tarried in the mount, before God called to him. Joshua was to be his successor …
2070 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 79.3 (Matthew Henry)
… God; for he will exalt those that abase themselves. Nor could any man have taken this honour to himself, but he that was called of God to it, Hebrews 5:4. God had …
2071 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 79.4 (Matthew Henry)
… ought to honour God with their gain. Human learning ought particularly to be consecrated to the service of the priesthood, and employed for the adorning …
2072 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 79.9 (Matthew Henry)
… consecrated to God and to his service and honour, and so must all his ministrations be. All that attend in God’s house must have Holiness to the Lord engraven …
2073 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 80.4 (Matthew Henry)
… to be done was the consecrating of the persons whom God had chosen to be priests, by which they devoted and gave up themselves to the service of God and God declared …
2074 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 80.14 (Matthew Henry)
… assured to them, and their whole selves from head to foot sanctified to the service of God. The blood was put upon the extreme parts of the body, to signify that …
2075 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 80.16 (Matthew Henry)
… profession, called of God to be so, consecrated for evermore, anointed with the Spirit above his fellows (whence he is called Messiah, the Christ ), clothed with …
2076 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 81.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, and to show the acceptableness of his people’s services to him, and the pleasure which they should take in ministering to him, Exodus 30:7, 30:8. As by the …
2077 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 82.3 (Matthew Henry)
… any service for God, and go on in it, who have reason to think that, one way or other, he has called them to it; for whom he calls he will own and bear out.
2078 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 82.4 (Matthew Henry)
… whom God calls to any service he will either find, or make, fit for it. If God give the commission, he will in some measure give the qualifications, according as …
2079 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 83.11 (Matthew Henry)
… their god if they had not first made their belly their god; but, when the god was a jest, no marvel that the service was sport. Being vain in their imaginations …
2080 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 83.26 (Matthew Henry)
… were called out to this service: Moses stood in the gate of the camp, the place of judgment; there he displayed a banner, as it were, because of the truth, to enlist …