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2681 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 …
2682 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 …
2683 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 …
2684 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 …
2685 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.8 (Matthew Henry)
… our services,—even he who thought it no robbery to be equal with God, who had reason enough to pleas himself, and no reason to be concerned, much less to be crossed …
2686 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.41 (Matthew Henry)
… regard to God in works of charity and almsgiving makes them an acceptable service and sacrifice to God, and fruit abounding to a good account. Paul mentions …
2687 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1066.6 (Matthew Henry)
… of God to feed our own vanity, and make idols of ourselves. But to take notice of the favours of God to promote our gratitude to him, and to speak of them to his honour …
2688 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1069.16 (Matthew Henry)
… holy to the Lord, and must use our bodies as property which belongs to him and is sacred to his use and service. We are to honour him with our bodies and spirits …
2689 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1070.1 (Matthew Henry)
… indifferent to the comforts of the world; and shows them how worldly cares hinder their devotions, and distract them in the service of God, 1 Corinthians 7 …
2690 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1070.11 (Matthew Henry)
… relation to seek the salvation of those to whom they are related. “Do not separate. There is other duty now called for. The conjugal relation calls for the most …
2691 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1070.14 (Matthew Henry)
… enslaved to Christ, yet he is bound to yield himself up wholly to his pleasure and service; and yet that service is perfect freedom. Note, Our comfort and happiness …
2692 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1072.2 (Matthew Henry)
… minister to meet with very unkind returns for great good-will to a people, and diligent and successful services among them. Some among the Corinthians questioned …
2693 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1072.5 (Matthew Henry)
… up to any way of business in the world expect to live out of it. Soldiers expect to be paid for their service. Husbandmen and shepherds expect to get a livelihood …
2694 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1072.10 (Matthew Henry)
… to their fidelity, zeal, and diligence; and his slothful and unwilling servants shall all be called to an account. Taking his name, and professing to do his business …
2695 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1078.7 (Matthew Henry)
… meet to be called an apostle. The least, because the last of them; called latest to the office, and not worthy to be called an apostle, to have either the office …
2696 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1079.7 (Matthew Henry)
… love to God, and therefore are a proper service on his own day. Note, God’s day is a proper season on which to lay up for charitable uses, or lay out in them, according …
2697 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1087.13 (Matthew Henry)
… if God hath put it into the hearts of any to do us or others any good. 2. For his readiness to this present service. He accepted the office, and was forward to go upon …
2698 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.5 (Matthew Henry)
… our services ascend to God through Christ, so all our blessings are conveyed to us in the same way, he being the Mediator between God and us.
2699 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1101.4 (Matthew Henry)
… by God to dispense the doctrine of the gospel, which commission and authority were given to him chiefly for he service of the Gentiles: to you-ward. And again …
2700 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1103.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s kindness and favour to others also. It is our duty in every thing to give thanks unto God and the Father, to God as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ …