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2901 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1067.10 (Matthew Henry)
… his body’s sake, which is the church ! Colossians 1:24. They suffered for him, and they suffered after his example. Thus poor and despised was he in his life and …
2902 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1068.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the church and their profession were more reproached. Note, In dealing with scandalous sinners, not only are they to be charged with the fact, but the aggravating …
2903 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1068.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, they are within, are professedly bound by the laws and rules of Christianity, and not only liable to the judgment of God, but to the censures of those …
2904 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1069.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the body, to have property in it and dominion over it, having assumed a body and been made to partake of our nature, that he might be head of his church, and head …
2905 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1074.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the body of the church under this good character; and the body might, in the main, have continued to observe the ordinances and institutions of Christ, though …
2906 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1074.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, Romans 11:22. If they had a mind to feast, they might do it at home in their own houses; but to come to the Lord’s table, and cabal and quarrel, and keep the …
2907 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the church is the body of Christ, and the members are variously gifted for the benefit of the whole body, and each particular member, 1 Corinthians 12:27-12:30 …
2908 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of Corinth, but were greatly abused. What these gifts were is at large told us in the body of the chapter; namely, extraordinary offices and powers …
2909 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, to edify the body, and spread and advance the gospel. Note, Whatever gifts God confers on any man, he confers them that he may do good with them, whether …
2910 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the body, the church.
2911 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.9 (Matthew Henry)
The apostle here makes out the truth of what was above asserted, and puts the gifted men among the Corinthians in mind of their duty, by comparing the church of Christ to a human body.
2912 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.10 (Matthew Henry)
… same body make but one body ( 1 Corinthians 12:12 ): As the body is one, and hath many members, and all members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ …
2913 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.11 (Matthew Henry)
… one body, 1 Corinthians 12:20. One member of a body is not a body; this is made up of many; and among these many there must be a distinction, difference of situation …
2914 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.13 (Matthew Henry)
… . The church, or whole collective body of Christians, in all ages, is his body. Every Christian is a member of his body, and every other Christian stands related …
2915 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.14 (Matthew Henry)
… church, nor the same endowments ( 1 Corinthians 12:29, 12:30 ): Are all apostles? Are all prophets ? This were to make the church a monster: all one as if the body were …
2916 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1076.2 (Matthew Henry)
… our bodies to be burnt, without charity, it profiteth nothing, 1 Corinthians 13:3. Should we sacrifice our lives for the faith of the gospel, and be burnt to death …
2917 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1078.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the body, the church; and those that sleep in him God will bring with him, 1 Thessalonians 4:14. Note, Christ’s resurrection is a pledge and earnest of ours, if we …
2918 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1078.18 (Matthew Henry)
… glorified church and body in heaven; and in this sense it may notwithstanding be said that he shall reign for ever and ever ( Revelation 11:15 ), that he shall reign …
2919 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1079.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the churches in Judea, and he is ready to go with their messengers, to convey what is gathered; and he is still in the way of his duty, in the business of his office …
2920 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1079.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of Corinth. The account he gives of them is that they supplied the deficiencies of the church towards him, and by so doing refreshed his spirit and …