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3241 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1045.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, which was a support to it. Though they set him up as a mark, he was not singular: “ Our twelve tribes, the body of the Jewish church, instantly serving God …
3242 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.23 (Matthew Henry)
… the church in this world always is, but was then especially, an afflicted state; to be a Christian was certainly to be a sufferer. Now, to comfort them in reference …
3243 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.26 (Matthew Henry)
… the body also, and has provided a great deal of honour and happiness for the body. The resurrection is here called the redemption of the body. It shall then be …
3244 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1056.14 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian churches were planted, this national body was thereby abandoned, their church-polity dissolved; and Christian churches (and in process of time …
3245 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1056.31 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian churches into the divine favour, and the spreading of the gospel in other nations, was a work which God would likewise finish, and be known by his …
3246 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1058.2 (Matthew Henry)
… his church again.
3247 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1058.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of God than wise and good men think they are. They are ready to conclude hardly, and to give up all for gone, when it is not so. Secondly, In times of general …
3248 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1058.22 (Matthew Henry)
… a church. Now, if they were holy, which is not meant so much of inherent as of federal holiness—if they were in the church and in the covenant—then we have reason …
3249 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1059.17 (Matthew Henry)
… churches, in the discharge of which each must study to do his own duty, for the preserving of order and the promotion of edification in the church, each …
3250 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1060.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of Rome may not only exempt such from subjection to the civil powers, but place them in authority above them, making the greatest princes subject …
3251 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1060.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, to the poor, to those that you have dealings with in buying, selling, exchanging, etc. Render to all their dues; and that readily and cheerfully, not …
3252 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of Christ be if Christians would study to please one another, as now we see them commonly industrious to cross, and thwart, and contradict one another …
3253 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the church on earth and the wages of that in heaven. One design of Christ was that the Gentiles likewise might be converted that they might be one with the Jews …
3254 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.41 (Matthew Henry)
… flourishing churches, though yet in their infancy, newly converted to Christianity. And I wish the observation did not hold that people are commonly more …
3255 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.42 (Matthew Henry)
… the churches, and took this by the bye; this was indeed a part of the trust committed to him, in which he was concerned to approve himself faithful ( Galatians …
3256 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1065.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of Corinth spoke very contemptuously of him: His bodily presence, say they, is weak, and his speech contemptible, 2 Corinthians 10:10. Possibly he …
3257 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 …
3258 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 …
3259 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 …
3260 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 …