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2661 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.70 (Matthew Henry)
… world to suffer ill for doing well, to be persecuted instead of being preferred for the good services they have done to mankind. Observe, (1.) What method the Jews …
2662 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , nor called in the extra-ordinary manner that Paul was, because set apart by special designation of the Holy Ghost to the service of the Gentiles. It seems, this …
2663 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the gods ( Acts 14:12 ): They called Barnabas Jupiter; for, if they will have him to be a god, it is as easy to make him the prince of their gods as not. It is probable that …
2664 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.15 (Matthew Henry)
… were called the ambassadors of Christ, and the stewards of the mysteries of God, than when they were called Jupiter and Mercury. Let us see how they prevented …
2665 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.23 (Matthew Henry)
… nations to walk in their own ways. These idolaters, that were called from the service of other gods, might think, “Have we not served these gods hitherto, and our …
2666 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.24 (Matthew Henry)
… witness to us that we ought to make our acknowledgments not to the creatures who are made serviceable to us, but to the Creator who makes them so. He left not …
2667 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.48 (Matthew Henry)
… ways serviceable one to another; and therefore should be forward both to borrow and lend assistance. Two are better than one. Every soldier has his comrade …
2668 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.51 (Matthew Henry)
… Peter calls his son, 1 Peter 5:13. (2.) Silas who was a new hand, and never yet employed in that work, nor intended to be, but to return to the service of the church at Jerusalem …
2669 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.1 (Matthew Henry)
… brethren to the grace of God, so his services for Christ after this are largely recorded; we are to attend him in this chapter from place to place, wherever he …
2670 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.38 (Matthew Henry)
… to God. (1.) They prayed together, prayed to God to support them and comfort them in their afflictions, to visit them, as he did Joseph in the prison, and to be …
2671 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1036.19 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s name, to correct their disorders in religion, and to turn them from the service of idols, and of Satan in them, to the service of the true and living God in …
2672 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.3 (Matthew Henry)
… example to those who are going to service to seek for those services in which they may have the best help for their souls. Choose to work with those that are …
2673 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.18 (Matthew Henry)
… men to worship God contrary to the law. They could not charge him with persuading men not to worship God at all, or to worship other gods ( Deuteronomy 13:2 ): but …
2674 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.25 (Matthew Henry)
… burdensome to him in his journey, but because they might be serviceable to the interests of the gospel at Ephesus. Paul intended shortly to settle there for …
2675 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.36 (Matthew Henry)
… either to despise him themselves, or to disparage him to others; did not call him a young raw preacher, not fit to come into a pulpit, but considered the disadvantages …
2676 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.38 (Matthew Henry)
… call to this service, not by a vision, as Paul was called to Macedonia, no, nor so much as by the invitation of those he was to go to; but, (1.) He himself inclined to go …
2677 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1039.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , and to his honour, by his ministers, the stewards of his courts, to which all that hold from and under him owe suit and service, and at which they are to make their …
2678 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1039.31 (Matthew Henry)
… willing to spend his life in labour, to hazard his life in dangerous services, to waste it in toilsome services; nay, to lay down his life in martyrdom, so that …
2679 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 …
2680 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 …