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34741 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.4 (Matthew Henry)
… be spiritual men, nor to have spiritual gifts. While they were under the conduct of the spirit of Gentilism, they could not be influenced by the Spirit of Christ …
34742 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , true spiritual gifts: No man, speaking by the Spirit, calls Jesus accursed. Thus did both Jews and Gentiles: they blasphemed him as an impostor, and execrated …
34743 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.6 (Matthew Henry)
… . These spiritual gifts, though proceeding from the same Spirit, are yet various. They have one author and original, but are themselves of various kinds. A free …
34744 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.7 (Matthew Henry)
… or spiritual. The outward gifts of his bounty are to be improved for his glory, and employed in doing good to others. No man has them merely for himself. They are …
34745 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual body of Christ. There should be no schism in this body, but the members should be closely united by the strongest bonds of love. All decays of this …
34746 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.13 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual gifts.
34747 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.14 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual edification: without them, neither evangelical knowledge nor holiness could have been promoted. But the rest, however fitted to answer …
34748 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1076.19 (Matthew Henry)
… any spiritual gifts whatever. And faith, hope, and love, are the three principal graces, of which charity is the chief, being the end to which the other two are …
34749 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.1 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual gifts, preferring those that are best and fitted to do the greatest good. I. He begins with advising them of all spiritual gifts to prefer prophesying …
34750 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.2 (Matthew Henry)
… all spiritual gifts. Here he teaches them, among spiritual gifts, which they should prefer, and by what rules they should make comparison. He begins the chapter …
34751 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.4 (Matthew Henry)
… which spiritual gift to prefer, from a principle of charity: “ Desire spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy, or chiefly that you may prophesy.” While …
34752 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.9 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual gifts, this way it will become commendable zeal, be zealous to edify the church, to promote Christian knowledge and practice, and covet those …
34753 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.11 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual gift communicated to them; but he would have them perform both so as to be understood by others, that others might join with them. Note, Public worship …
34754 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.14 (Matthew Henry)
… this spiritual gift: “ I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all ( 1 Corinthians 14:18 ); not only more than any single person among you, but more than all …
34755 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.18 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual gift, intended for the conviction and conversion of infidels, that they might be brought into the Christian church; but converts were to be built …
34756 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.22 (Matthew Henry)
… , the spiritual gifts they have leave them still possessed of their reason, and capable of using their own judgment in the exercise of them. Divine inspirations …
34757 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.23 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual gifts, which was a manifest proof that the church of Corinth might observe the same regulations. And it would be perfectly scandalous for …
34758 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.24 (Matthew Henry)
… had spiritual gifts of this sort in that age of the church (see Acts 22:9 ), and might be under this impulse in the assembly, must they altogether suppress it? Or …
34759 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.25 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual gifts as no church did like them; they behaved in a manner by themselves, and would not easily endure control nor regulation. Now, says the apostle …
34760 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1078.3 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual life and hopes. Now concerning these saving truths observe, (1.) They must be retained in mind, they must be held fast (so the word is translated, Hebrews …