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2721 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.9 (Matthew Henry)
… willing to spend and be spent in the service of men’s souls; and, as those who give bread to the hungry from a charitable principle are said to impart their souls …
2722 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.16 (Matthew Henry)
… duty to God. It was a most fatal mistake to think that they did God service by killing God’s servants. Murder and persecution are most hateful to God and cannot …
2723 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1116.9 (Matthew Henry)
… to the nature and design of our Christian calling: For God hath called us not unto uncleanness, but unto holiness, 1 Thessalonians 4:7. The law of God forbids …
2724 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1120.12 (Matthew Henry)
… were to abide in the same calling wherein they were called of God, and therein abide with God, 1 Corinthians 7:20, 7:24. Industry in our particular callings as …
2725 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1126.2 (Matthew Henry)
… to do good; and that is all wherein their service consists. Observe, It is a great encouragement to us in doing our duty to our relations if we have reason to think …
2726 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1130.20 (Matthew Henry)
… is called a crown of righteousness, because it will be the recompence of our services, which God is not unrighteous to forget; and because our holiness and …
2727 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.13 (Matthew Henry)
… so called is less pleasing unto God; for he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman, not free from that service, but free in it; free spiritually …
2728 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.23 (Matthew Henry)
… both to them and the work they were sent about, which probably was to preach the gospel, or to be in some way serviceable to the churches. Zenas is styled the lawyer …
2729 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1134.23 (Matthew Henry)
… to God, he now returns to his master, who will have more service and better hold of him than ever—by conscience of his duty and faithfulness in it to his life’s …
2730 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1134.37 (Matthew Henry)
… their service to him. An honour it is to suffer shame for Christ’s name. My fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus is mentioned as his glory and the apostle’s comfort …
2731 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1135.21 (Matthew Henry)
… , O God. Here one person calls another person God, O God. And, if God the Father declares him to be so, he must be really and truly so; for God calls persons and things …
2732 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1143.6 (Matthew Henry)
… of God. Observe, (1.) None but priests were to enter into the first part of the tabernacle, and this to teach us all that persons not qualified, not called of …
2733 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1143.21 (Matthew Henry)
… promised to those who did their duty, and the punishment threatened against the transgressors, and he called for their consent to the terms of the covenant …
2734 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of God and of Christ. Again, it is to be observed that James professes himself a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ; to teach us that in all services we …
2735 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.10 (Matthew Henry)
… law to Christ. 2. It is a law of liberty, and one that we have no reason to complain of as a yoke or burden; for the service of God, according to the gospel, is perfect …
2736 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1152.17 (Matthew Henry)
… of God to convert and change them. And let those that are in any way serviceable to convert others know what will be the happy consequence of their doing this …
2737 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1154.9 (Matthew Henry)
… his services. (4.) Those who expect mercy from this gracious Redeemer must come to him, which is our act, though done by God’s grace—an act of the soul, not of the body …
2738 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1154.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , sacred to God, serviceable to others, well endowed with heavenly gifts and graces, and well employed. (4.) This holy priesthood must and will offer up spiritual …
2739 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1154.16 (Matthew Henry)
… , consecrated to God, and offering to God spiritual services and oblations, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. [3.] All Christians, wheresoever they be, compose …
2740 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1156.16 (Matthew Henry)
… are called to do for the honour of God and the good of others we should do it with all our might. Fourthly, In all the duties and services of life we should aim at …