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2341 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 583.15 (Matthew Henry)
… not to answer the room it takes up; yet God has appointed it its place and made it serviceable to man both for navigation ( there go the ships, in which goods are …
2342 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 584.17 (Matthew Henry)
… instructed to execute judgment will find their remissness construed as a rebellion against God’s word. The plagues of Egypt are here called God’s signs …
2343 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 586.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , particularly, to whom God has thus granted a new life, spend it in his service; let them sacrifice with thanksgiving, not only bring a thank-offering to the altar …
2344 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 591.4 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s government as well as in his favour. It is a pleasure to him to be found in the way of his duty, and he is in his element when he is in the service of God. Herein …
2345 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 594.11 (Matthew Henry)
… praise God; death puts an end to our glorifying God in this world of trial and conflict, to all our services in the field; the grave is a land of darkness and silence …
2346 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 595.19 (Matthew Henry)
… professes to stand to God: “ I am thy servant; I choose to be so; I resolve to be so; I will live and die in thy service.” He had called God’s people, who are dear to him, his …
2347 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 597.14 (Matthew Henry)
… are to us as the days of heaven. See what a good Master we serve, who, having instituted a day for his service, appoints it to be spent in holy joy.
2348 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.42 (Matthew Henry)
… householder, to bring out of my treasury things new and old, and to make profession of my faith whenever I am called to it.” We have need to pray to God that we may …
2349 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.43 (Matthew Henry)
… free to that which is good, doing it not by constraint, but willingly.” The service of sin is perfect slavery; the service of God is perfect liberty. Licentiousness …
2350 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.50 (Matthew Henry)
… of God; he kept it in mind, and upon every occasion he called it to mind. God’s name is the discovery he has made of himself to us in and by his word. This is his memorial …
2351 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 606.3 (Matthew Henry)
… returning to him and reposing in him as our rest), and when we awake to be still with him and to use the refreshment we have by sleep in his service. He gives his …
2352 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 613.1 (Matthew Henry)
… upon to praise God pray for him that gave them the exhortation, either the high priest or the captain of the guard. Or thus: those who did that service did …
2353 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 616.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s Israel, and happy are those who are in any way serviceable to that. The fall of the New-Testament Babylon will be the triumph of all the saints, Revelation …
2354 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 623.4 (Matthew Henry)
… fingers to the harp, but God taught his hands to war and his fingers to fight, because he designed him for Israel’s champion; and what God calls men to he either …
2355 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 623.8 (Matthew Henry)
… his God: I will sing a new song to thee, O God ! a song of praise for new mercies, for those compassions that are new every morning. Fresh favours call for fresh returns …
2356 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 625.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of praising God, that it was enough for him to see that his priests and people did it, but that he needed not to do it himself in his own person. Michal …
2357 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 627.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of man, Psalms 148:10. Nay, even the creeping things have not sunk so low, nor do the flying fowl soar so high, as not to be called upon to praise the Lord …
2358 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 628.3 (Matthew Henry)
… God near to them, that are not required to travel far to them, are justly expected to do more in praising God than others. All true Christians may call themselves …
2359 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 629.6 (Matthew Henry)
… a call to those that had a place in his sanctuary and were employed in the temple-service; but he concludes with a call to all the children of men, in prospect …
2360 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 637.20 (Matthew Henry)
… that service which in time, in the fulness of time, he was to go through with, and is therein taken under the special tuition and protection of the Father; he is …