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32421 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1109.4 (Matthew Henry)
Here he proceeds to the body of the epistle, and begins with thanksgiving to God for what he had heard concerning them, though he had no personal acquaintance with them, and knew their state and character only by the reports of others.
32422 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.16 (Matthew Henry)
… 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 be …
32423 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1115.3 (Matthew Henry)
… . The character he gives of Timothy ( 1 Thessalonians 3:2 ): We sent Timotheus, our brother. Elsewhere he calls him his son; here he calls him brother. Timothy was Paul’s …
32424 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1116.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of those who are in Christ Jesus is this: They walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (2.) Another argument is that the apostle taught and …
32425 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1119.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of God or the magistrate. (2.) As God, he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. As God was in the temple of old, and worshipped there, and is in and with …
32426 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1123.3 (Matthew Henry)
… and character of a work; not of great honour and advantage, for ministers should always look more to their work than to the honour and advantage of their office …
32427 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1123.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of deacons: these had the care of the temporal concerns of the church, that is, the maintenance of the ministers and provision for the poor: they …
32428 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1124.5 (Matthew Henry)
… their character is that they forbid to marry, forbid their clergy to marry, and speak very reproachfully of marriage, though an ordinance of God; and that they …
32429 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1125.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the characters of the widows that were to be taken into the number to receive the church’s charity: not under sixty years old, nor any who have divorced their …
32430 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1128.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of Christians: they are such as call on the Lord Jesus Christ, out of a pure heart. Observe, Christ is to be prayed to. It is the character of all Christians …
32431 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1128.23 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of the servant of the Lord ( 2 Timothy 2:24 ): He must not strive, but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient. This is the way to convey truth in its light …
32432 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1129.5 (Matthew Henry)
… . Their characters are the same—namely, Men of corrupt minds, etc.; their conduct is much the same—they resist the truth, as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses …
32433 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1129.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of God and the good of the souls of men.” 4. Timothy fully knew Paul’s good character, which he might gather from his doctrine, manner of life, and purpose; for he …
32434 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1130.20 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of all the saints that they love the appearing of Jesus Christ: they loved his first appearing, when he appeared to take away sin by the sacrifice …
32435 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, and to him it belongs to appoint the officers and orders of it, as he pleases: the as here refers to the qualifications and character of the elders that …
32436 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.16 (Matthew Henry)
… stewards to take care of the affairs of his house, to provide for and dispense to them things needful, there is great reason that their character should …
32437 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.17 (Matthew Henry)
… bishop’s character. But, Secondly, Positively: he must be ( Titus 1:8 ) a lover of hospitality, as an evidence that he is not given to filthy lucre, but is willing to …
32438 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.7 (Matthew Henry)
… personal character: To be sober and discreet, contrary to the vanity and rashness which younger years are subject to: discreet in their judgments and sober …
32439 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1135.3 (Matthew Henry)
… legible characters under his own hand, as when he wrote the ten commandments on tables of stone. Of some of these different ways God himself gave an account …
32440 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1135.8 (Matthew Henry)
… is God manifest in the flesh, he is light of light, the true Shechinah. [3.] The person of the Son is the true image and character of the person of the Father; being …