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34701 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1061.9 (Matthew Henry)
… to spiritual difficulties and dangers (our own and others), much of our hope and comfort are grounded upon the divine power, 1 Peter 1:5, 1:24 .
34702 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1061.18 (Matthew Henry)
… —that spiritual joy which is wrought by the blessed Spirit in the hearts of believers, which respects God as their reconciled Father and heaven as their expected …
34703 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.6 (Matthew Henry)
… his spiritual good.— To edification, that is, not only for his profit, but for the profit of others, to edify the body of Christ, by studying to oblige one another …
34704 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.20 (Matthew Henry)
… his spiritual indwelling by faith in the hearts of all the praising saints. If any confess to God among the Gentiles, and sing to his name, it is not they, but Christ …
34705 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.21 (Matthew Henry)
Here is another prayer directed to God, as the God of hope; and it is, as the former ( Romans 15:5 ), for spiritual blessings: these are the blest blessings, and to be first and chiefly prayed for.
34706 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.24 (Matthew Henry)
… , heavenly, spiritual joy is filling to the soul; it has a satisfaction in it, answerable to the soul’s vast and just desires. Thus does God satiate and replenish …
34707 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.29 (Matthew Henry)
… , more spiritual, and therefore more excellent, than the Levitical priesthood. (4.) For what end: that the offering up (or sacrificing) of the Gentiles might be acceptable …
34708 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.39 (Matthew Henry)
… some spiritual gift. The blessing of the gospel of Christ is the best and most desirable blessing. When Paul would raise their expectation of something great …
34709 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.41 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual things, and receive the gospel of salvation as it were at second-hand from the Jews; and therefore their duty is, they are bound in gratitude …
34710 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1063.4 (Matthew Henry)
… and spiritual love, as a sister; for there is neither male nor female, but all are one in Christ Jesus, Galatians 3:28. Both Christ and his apostles had some of their …
34711 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1063.13 (Matthew Henry)
… and spiritual affection; as he calls Phebe his sister, and teaches Timothy to treat the elder women as mothers, 1 Timothy 5:2. This good woman, upon some occasion …
34712 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1063.22 (Matthew Henry)
… for spiritual victories, we must not only eye him as the Lord of hosts, whose all power is, but as the God of peace, a God at peace with us, speaking peace to us, working …
34713 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1063.23 (Matthew Henry)
… , their spiritual enemies. Christ hath overcome for us; disarmed the strong man armed, broken his power, and we have nothing to do but to pursue the victory and …
34714 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1063.34 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual enemies that seek to overthrow them, and the shaking times into which their lot is cast, no less than an almighty power will establish them …
34715 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1064.5 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual gifts. This the church of Corinth was famous for. They did not come behind any of the churches in any gift, 1 Corinthians 1:7. He specifies utterance …
34716 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1064.9 (Matthew Henry)
… and spiritual teacher; others cried up Apollos, perhaps as the most eloquent speaker; some Cephas, or Peter, perhaps for the authority of his age, or because …
34717 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1064.18 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual life; from him, the head, it is communicated to all the members of his mystical body by his Holy Spirit. We are in bonds, and he is made redemption …
34718 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1065.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , adapting spiritual things to spiritual —speaking of spiritual matters, matters of revelation, and the spiritual life, in language that is proper and plain …
34719 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1065.13 (Matthew Henry)
… are spiritually discerned, 1 Corinthians 2:14. The natural man, the animal man. Either, (1.) The man under the power of corruption, and never yet illuminated by the …
34720 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1065.14 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual man than he does of other spiritual things. He is a stranger to the principles, pleasures, and actings, of the divine life. The spiritual man does …