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34781 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1087.8 (Matthew Henry)
… in spiritual gifts, and particularly in utterance; and yet this was not in them, as in too many, both the effect and evidence of ignorance; for with their utterance …
34782 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1088.8 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual and temporal good things. He can cause us to have a sufficiency in all things, to be content with what we have, to make up what we give, to be able to …
34783 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1089.6 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual warfare, with spiritual enemies and for spiritual purposes. And though ministers walk in the flesh, or live in the body, and in the common affairs …
34784 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1091.6 (Matthew Henry)
… ; and spiritual burdens are ordered, to cure spiritual pride. This thorn in the flesh is said to be a messenger of Satan, which he did not send with a good design …
34785 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1091.7 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual benefit, yet we may pray to God for the removal of them: we ought indeed to desire also that they may reach the end for which they are designed. The …
34786 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1091.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , especially spiritual benefit, to own them as instruments in God’s hand of good to us, and to vindicate them when they are calumniated by others. 2. How much soever …
34787 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1092.4 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual state. We should examine whether we be in the faith, because it is a matter in which we may be easily deceived, and wherein a deceit is highly …
34788 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1092.9 (Matthew Henry)
I. A valediction. He gives them a parting farewell, and takes his leave of them for the present, with hearty good wishes for their spiritual welfare. In order to this,
34789 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.9 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual things, it was their duty to minister to them in carnal things, as Romans 15:27. And he very readily falls in with it, whereby he showed his charitable …
34790 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.3 (Matthew Henry)
… are spiritually bewitched who, when the truth as it is in Jesus is plainly set before them, will not thus obey it. Several things proved and aggravated the folly …
34791 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.5 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual advantage.
34792 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.12 (Matthew Henry)
… his spiritual seed, who are his by faith. And if it be objected that the law which was given by Moses did disannul this covenant, because that insisted so much …
34793 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.16 (Matthew Henry)
… his spiritual seed, including believers of all nations, even of the Gentiles as well as the Jews; but the law was given to the Israelites as a peculiar people …
34794 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1096.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual, though we are not the natural, seed of Abraham, so we are entitled to the promised inheritance and interested in the blessings of it. But lest …
34795 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1097.16 (Matthew Henry)
… is spiritual. On the other hand, the spirit (the renewed part of us) strives against the flesh, and opposes the will and desire of it: and hence it comes to pass that …
34796 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1097.17 (Matthew Henry)
… with spiritual things, to mind the things of the soul, which is the spiritual part of man, more than those of the body, which is his carnal part, to commit ourselves …
34797 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1097.18 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual life, let us make it appear by the proper fruits of the Spirit in our lives.” He had before told us that the Spirit of Christ is a privilege bestowed …
34798 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1098.3 (Matthew Henry)
… are spiritual, by whom is meant, not only the ministers (as if none but they were to be called spiritual persons), but other Christians too, especially those of …
34799 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1098.8 (Matthew Henry)
… others spiritual things, they should reap their carnal things. And this is the appointment of God himself; for as, under the law, those who ministered about …
34800 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1098.9 (Matthew Henry)
… and spiritual life, a life of devotedness to God and of usefulness and serviceableness to others, may depend upon it that of the Spirit they shall reap life …