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32001 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 549.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the character. 1. Let us make the service of God our great business and the favour of God our great delight and pleasure, for that is seeking him and loving his …
32002 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 550.8 (Matthew Henry)
… in God’s promises that they are often spoken of as commands, like that, Let there be light, and there was light. He speaks, and it is done. [2.] The character of his enemies …
32003 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 553.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of those that reproach God; they are foolish. As atheism is folly ( Psalms 14:1 ), profaneness and blasphemy are no less so. Perhaps those are cried …
32004 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 557.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of their fathers. Though they were the seed of Abraham, taken into covenant with God, and, for aught we know, the only professing people he had then …
32005 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 558.9 (Matthew Henry)
… . The character of those he prays against; they are such as have not known God, nor called upon his name. The reason why men do not call upon God is because they do …
32006 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 561.7 (Matthew Henry)
… their character is acknowledged ( Psalms 82:6 ): I have said, You are gods. They have been honoured with the name and title of gods. God himself called them so in the …
32007 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 563.10 (Matthew Henry)
… .) What God is, and will be, to his people: The Lord God is a sun and shield. We are here in darkness, but, if God be our God, he will be to us a sun, to enlighten and enliven …
32008 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 565.7 (Matthew Henry)
… their character; they were proud men that looked with disdain upon poor David. (Many are made persecutors by their pride.) They were violent men, that would carry …
32009 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 570.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of a true believer that he dwells in the secret place of the Most High; he is at home in God, returns to God, and reposes in him as his rest; he acquaints …
32010 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 570.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, and what we may rely upon. Observe, 1. The character of those who shall have the benefit and comfort of these promises; it is much the same with that, Psalms …
32011 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 570.13 (Matthew Henry)
… three characters:—(1.) They are such as know God’s name. His nature we cannot fully know; but by his name he has made himself known, and with that we must acquaint …
32012 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 571.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, by the character of those who do so, Psalms 92:6. Those are fools, they are brutish, who do not know, who do not understand, how great God’s works are, who will …
32013 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 580.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of a good man that he shuts his eyes from seeing evil, Isaiah 33:15. “Nay, I hate the work of those that turn aside from the paths of equity ( Job 31:7 ), not …
32014 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 584.11 (Matthew Henry)
… be. God’s word tried him, tried his faith and patience, and then it came in power to give command for his release. There is a time set when God’s word will come for …
32015 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 591.1 (Matthew Henry)
… fear God and do his commandments. We have here, I. The character of the righteous, Psalms 112:1. II. The blessedness of the righteous. 1. There is a blessing entailed …
32016 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 591.7 (Matthew Henry)
II. The blessedness that is here entailed upon those that answer to these characters. Happiness, all happiness, to the man that feareth the Lord. Whatever men think or say of them, God says that they are blessed; and his saying so makes them so.
32017 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 591.11 (Matthew Henry)
… his God instructs him to discretion and teaches him, Isaiah 28:26. It is part of the character of a good man that he will use his discretion in managing his affairs …
32018 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 591.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the character and of the comfort of good people. It is their endeavour to keep their minds stayed upon God, and so to keep them calm, and easy, and undisturbed …
32019 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the characters of the happy people. Those are happy, 1. Who make the will of God the rule of all their actions, and govern themselves, in their whole conversation …
32020 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.4 (Matthew Henry)
… undoubted character of every good man that he has a respect to all God’s commandments. He has a respect to the command, eyes it as his copy, aims to conform to …