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34721 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1066.2 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual life may yet in many things be defective. The apostle tells them he could not speak to them as unto spiritual men, but as unto carnal men, as to babes …
34722 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1066.6 (Matthew Henry)
… grace. Spiritual pride is abominable: it is making use of the greatest favours of God to feed our own vanity, and make idols of ourselves. But to take notice of …
34723 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1066.12 (Matthew Henry)
… own spiritual benefit.” Upon this occasion also he gives in an inventory of the church’s possessions, the spiritual riches of a true believer: “ All is yours …
34724 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1067.8 (Matthew Henry)
… , of spiritual gifts; nay, you can make them the matter of your glory without us, that is, in my absence, and without having any need of me.” There is a very elegant gradation …
34725 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1067.12 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual father. He first brought them off from pagan idolatry to the faith of the gospel and the worship of the true and living God. He was the instrument …
34726 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1067.13 (Matthew Henry)
… , a spiritual child of his, as well as themselves. Note, Spiritual brotherhood should engage affection as well as what is common and natural. The children of …
34727 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1068.5 (Matthew Henry)
… his spiritual gift of discerning at a distance. Some think that this is to be understood of a mere ordinary excommunication, and that delivering him to Satan …
34728 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1070.24 (Matthew Henry)
… his spiritual concerns. And it is highly expedient, if not a duty, for Christians to be guided by such a consideration.
34729 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1070.25 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual concerns.
34730 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1071.7 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual and eternal warfare, and shun every thing that would unnecessarily grieve them, and much more every thing that would be likely to occasion …
34731 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1072.1 (Matthew Henry)
… men’s spiritual interest and salvation, 1 Corinthians 9:19-9:23. And, V. Concludes his argument by showing what animated him to this course, even the prospect …
34732 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1072.5 (Matthew Henry)
… spiritual blessings; and had they no claim to as great a share in their carnal things as was necessary to subsist them? Note, Those who enjoy spiritual benefits …
34733 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1073.4 (Matthew Henry)
… same spiritual meat, and drink of the same spiritual drink, that we do. The manna on which they fed was a type of Christ crucified, the bread which came down from …
34734 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1073.6 (Matthew Henry)
… ! and spiritual whoredom did in many cases lead to bodily prostitution. Most of the gods whom the heathens served were represented as patterns of lewdness …
34735 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1073.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual judgments now. Their exclusion from the earthly Canaan typified the exclusion of many under the gospel out of the heavenly Canaan, for their …
34736 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1074.11 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual interests; but it really made them worse. They came together, not for the better, but for the worse. Note, The ordinances of Christ, if they do not …
34737 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1074.23 (Matthew Henry)
… this spiritual diet should be taken often tool The ancient churches celebrated this ordinance every Lord’s day, if not every day when they assembled for …
34738 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1074.24 (Matthew Henry)
… , to spiritual judgments and eternal misery. Every sin is in its own nature damning; and therefore surely so heinous a sin as profaning such a holy ordinance …
34739 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.1 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual gifts, which were very plentifully poured out on the Corinthian church. He considers their original, that they are from God; their variety and …
34740 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual gifts, which abounded in the church of Corinth, but were greatly abused. What these gifts were is at large told us in the body of the chapter; namely …