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33861 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 639.4 (Matthew Henry)
… to spiritual poverty, but those who are fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, are likely to be rich in faith and rich in good works .
33862 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 639.23 (Matthew Henry)
… is spiritual food to the needy, to the hungry.
33863 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 639.25 (Matthew Henry)
… in spiritual riches. Diligence in getting them is our duty, but God’s blessing and grace must have all the glory of that which is acquired, Deuteronomy 8:17 …
33864 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 640.19 (Matthew Henry)
… his spiritual blessings, which will do the best good to his own soul. See Isaiah 58:7 If thou hide not thy eyes from thy own flesh, but do good to others, as to thyself …
33865 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 640.32 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual life in many; they are the ornaments of paradise, God’s church on earth, for whose sake it stands. 2. The wise are something more; they are as trees …
33866 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 642.4 (Matthew Henry)
… in spiritual affairs. Those that rest in idle wishes know not what the advantages of religion are; whereas those that take pains in the service of God find …
33867 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 642.10 (Matthew Henry)
… are spiritually rich, and full of grace, and yet think themselves poor, and will not be persuaded that they are rich, or, at least, will not own it; by their doubts …
33868 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 642.22 (Matthew Henry)
… and spiritual blessings brings that which is sweet to their souls; we know those that can say so by experience, Psalms 4:6, 4:7. 2. Yet they will not be happy; for it …
33869 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 643.13 (Matthew Henry)
… it. Spiritual joy is seated in the soul; the joy of the hypocrite is but from the teeth outward. See John 16:22, 6:10. 2. There is worse after it: The end of that mirth …
33870 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 643.23 (Matthew Henry)
… be spiritually poor, and come to nothing.
33871 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 644.7 (Matthew Henry)
… this spiritual alms to seven and also to eight, not only be communicative, but diffusive, of this good, with humility and prudence. We must take pains to spread …
33872 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 644.33 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual life, and lead to eternal life, and (as some think) to distinguish them from rebukes and reproaches for well-doing, which are rather reproofs of …
33873 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 645.23 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual strength, curing the diseases that weaken us.
33874 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 648.17 (Matthew Henry)
… temporal, spiritual, and eternal blessings. Almsgiving is the surest and safest way of thriving.
33875 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 649.24 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual actions upon his grace. The best man is no better than God makes him; and every creature is that to us which it is the will of God that it should be …
33876 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 650.17 (Matthew Henry)
… for spiritual delights, he is an epicure, 2 Timothy 3:4. 2. The punishment of an epicure in this world: He shall be a poor man; for the lusts of sensuality are not maintained …
33877 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 650.25 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual blessings, but refused to be at the pains that were necessary to the obtaining of them. 2. The honours of the honest and diligent. The righteous …
33878 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 651.4 (Matthew Henry)
… least spiritual riches and honour in the favour of God, and the promises and privileges of the covenant of grace, and eternal life at last.
33879 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 651.27 (Matthew Henry)
… in spiritual judgments, in curses to their souls. He that robs the poor will be found in the end a murderer of himself.
33880 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 652.1 (Matthew Henry)
… from spiritual delights, and spoil its relish of them. Why then should we covet that which will certainly cheat us?