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2601 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 975.17 (Matthew Henry)
… of God always were a praying people; and prayer is the great and principal piece of service by which we give honour to God, fetch in favours from him, and keep …
2602 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 975.26 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, and employed in eminent services, must learn to live a life of self-denial and mortification, must be dead to the pleasures of sense, and keep their minds …
2603 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 975.27 (Matthew Henry)
… eminent services to which in due time he shall be called: He shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb, and as soon as it is possible he shall …
2604 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.10 (Matthew Henry)
… now to be admitted into the temple-service, where he should have attended as a candidate five years before. But God had called him to a more honourable ministry …
2605 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 978.36 (Matthew Henry)
… to a commission; his being anointed signifies both his being fitted for the undertaking and called to it. Those whom God appoints to any service he anoints …
2606 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 980.3 (Matthew Henry)
… us to know and remember that it is his day, and therefore is to be spent in his service and to his honour ( Luke 6:5 ): The Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. In the …
2607 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 983.20 (Matthew Henry)
… the service and honour of Christ called for his testimony and agency, he denied them, because the interest of Christ was a despised interest, and every where …
2608 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 983.60 (Matthew Henry)
… other service, yet thou hast other work to do; go thou, and preach the kingdom of God .” Not that Christ would have his followers or his ministers to be unnatural …
2609 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 984.53 (Matthew Henry)
… their serviceableness to them in their worldly pursuits, they are ready to condemn those that addict themselves to the exercises of religion, as if they …
2610 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 989.55 (Matthew Henry)
… services are apt to think hardly of their master and meanly of his favours. We ought to own ourselves utterly unworthy of those mercies which God has thought …
2611 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 991.9 (Matthew Henry)
… addition to his perfections. It becomes us therefore to call ourselves unprofitable servants, but to call his service a profitable service, for God is happy …
2612 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 992.24 (Matthew Henry)
… young, to bring to Christ, who knows how to show kindness to them that are not capable of doing service to him. 2. One gracious touch of Christ’s will make our children …
2613 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 994.8 (Matthew Henry)
… duty to God cannot bear to be called upon to do it. Some of the best men in the world have had the hardest usage from it, for their best services. 4. That God sent his …
2614 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 995.13 (Matthew Henry)
… for services and sufferings; wisdom to know what to say, and a mouth wherewith to say it as it should be said. It is a great happiness to have both matter and words …
2615 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 997.28 (Matthew Henry)
… prayer call God Father, and come to him with reverence and confidence, as children to a father. Secondly, The great thing we must beg of God, both for ourselves …
2616 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 998.47 (Matthew Henry)
… made to the worship of the God that made them; and not only so, but from serving the interests of the world and the flesh; they must turn to the service of God in …
2617 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 999.41 (Matthew Henry)
… are called the first; proton, “It is he for whose sake and service I am sent: he is my Master, I am his minister and messenger.”
2618 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 999.45 (Matthew Henry)
… of God which we are filled with. We are not straitened in the grace of Christ, if we be not straitened in our own bosoms. [3.] The serviceableness of this grace. Grace …
2619 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1000.52 (Matthew Henry)
… between God and Israel: there God revealed himself to them; there they presented themselves and their services to him. Thus by Christ God speaks to us, and we …
2620 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1002.60 (Matthew Henry)
… is called true worship, in opposition to that which was typical. The legal services were figures of the true, Hebrews 9:3, 9:24. Those that revolted from Christianity …