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32381 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1066.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , a character doubly reflecting honour on him. It was honourable to be a master-builder in the edifice of God; but it added to his character to be a wise one. Persons …
32382 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1067.2 (Matthew Henry)
… his character and office, in which many among them had at least very much failed: Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries …
32383 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1067.5 (Matthew Henry)
… husbandry, master-builders in his building, stewards of his mysteries, and servants of Christ. And common ministers cannot bear these characters in the …
32384 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1067.10 (Matthew Henry)
… and characters as the very worst and vilest men, as the most proper to make such a sacrifice: or else as the very dirt of the world, that was to be swept away: nay …
32385 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1067.13 (Matthew Henry)
… his character. He was his beloved son, a spiritual child of his, as well as themselves. Note, Spiritual brotherhood should engage affection as well as what is …
32386 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1069.10 (Matthew Henry)
… profession, character, relations, and hopes: they should be very careful that by carrying this maxim too far they be not brought into bondage, either to a crafty …
32387 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1072.2 (Matthew Henry)
… his character and sink his reputation; particularly here at Corinth, a place to which he had been instrumental in doing much good, and from which he had deserved …
32388 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1072.14 (Matthew Henry)
… that character, have challenged authority over the Gentiles, yet he accommodated himself, as much as he innocently might, to their prejudices and ways of …
32389 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1074.4 (Matthew Henry)
… is God. Christ, in his mediatorial character and glorified humanity, is at the head of mankind. He is not only first of the kind, but Lord and Sovereign. He has a …
32390 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.4 (Matthew Henry)
… from God. Now concerning this observe, 1. Their former character: they were Gentiles. Not God’s peculiar people, but of the nations whom he had in a manner abandoned …
32391 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.5 (Matthew Henry)
… and character increase in proportion to his usefulness, I mean his own intention and endeavours to be useful.
32392 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.14 (Matthew Henry)
… his character; it is approving himself the servant of Christ, and not a vassal to his own pride and vanity.
32393 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.19 (Matthew Henry)
… own character, who do any thing that has this aspect. But, on the other hand, 2. If, instead of speaking with tongues, those who minister plainly interpret scripture …
32394 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.25 (Matthew Henry)
… God, they must be left under the power of this ignorance. If their pretences to inspiration can stand in competition with the apostolical character and …
32395 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1078.15 (Matthew Henry)
… and character, as the first-fruits of those who sleep in him. As he has assuredly risen, so in his resurrection there is as much an earnest given that the dead …
32396 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1078.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of God, but a middle person between God and man, partaking of both natures, human and divine, as he was to reconcile both parties, God and man, and …
32397 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1078.21 (Matthew Henry)
… a character of his religion fit for a Christian to endure? And must he not fix this character on it if he give up his future hopes, and deny the resurrection of …
32398 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1079.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , if God permit, that is, that he would execute God’s own purpose concerning himself, with God’s permission? It is to be understood then of a common purpose, formed …
32399 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1085.7 (Matthew Henry)
… as God’s servants or ministers, and act in every thing suitably to that character. So did the apostle, (1.) By much patience in afflictions. He was a great sufferer …
32400 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1087.16 (Matthew Henry)
… good character of them all ( 2 Corinthians 8:23 ), as fellow-labourers with him for their welfare; as the messengers of the churches; as the glory of Christ, who were …