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34801 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1098.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual seed of Abraham; these, being heirs of his faith, are also heirs together with him of the same promise, and consequently entitled to the peace …
34802 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and spiritual strength, and in whom their persons, and all that they perform, are made accepted. 3. The apostolical benediction: Grace be to you, etc. This is the …
34803 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.5 (Matthew Henry)
… all spiritual blessings. Note, Spiritual blessings are the best blessings with which God blesses us, and for which we are to bless him. He blesses us by bestowing …
34804 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.6 (Matthew Henry)
… particular spiritual blessings with which we are blessed in Christ, and for which we ought to bless God, are (many of them) here enumerated and enlarged upon …
34805 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.7 (Matthew Henry)
… these spiritual privileges, that we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted in Christ —we to whom the gospel was first preached, and who were first …
34806 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.8 (Matthew Henry)
… for spiritual blessings, and prays for further supplies of them; for God will for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them. He has laid up these …
34807 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual and divine life. It may be understood of the glorious inheritance in or among the saints in heaven, where God does, as it were, lay forth all his …
34808 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1100.2 (Matthew Henry)
… all spiritual life. Sinners are dead in state, being destitute of the principles, and powers of spiritual life; and cut off from God, the fountain of life: and …
34809 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1100.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual life implanted in us. Grace in the soul is a new life in the soul. As death locks up the senses, seals up all the powers and faculties, so does a state …
34810 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1100.6 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual advantages are from God. We are his workmanship; he means in respect of the new creation; not only as men, but as saints. The new man is a new creature …
34811 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1100.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual and eternal blessings. Those who are with out Christ, and strangers from the covenant, can have no good hope; for Christ and the covenant are the …
34812 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1100.9 (Matthew Henry)
… up spiritual sacrifices to God and he dispensing his blessings and favours to them. Thus the building, for the nature of it, is a temple, a holy temple; for the …
34813 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1101.11 (Matthew Henry)
… friends—spiritual blessings, which are the best blessings, and the most earnestly to be sought and prayed for by every one of us, both for ourselves and for …
34814 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1102.9 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual enemies, who brought us into captivity before. He conquered those who had conquered us; such as sin, the devil, and death. Indeed, he triumphed over …
34815 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1102.10 (Matthew Henry)
… orderly spiritual state and frame those who had been as it were dislocated and disjointed by sin, and then to strengthen, confirm, and advance them therein …
34816 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1103.3 (Matthew Henry)
… is spiritual adultery; for by this the soul, which was espoused to God, goes astray from him, and embraces the bosom of a stranger, and therefore carnal worldlings …
34817 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1103.5 (Matthew Henry)
… is spiritual idolatry in the love of this world. As the epicure makes a god of his belly, so the covetous man makes a god of his money, sets those affectations …
34818 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1103.6 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual death; and the latter must awake from their spiritual deadness. (3.) Another remedy against sin is circumspection, care, or caution ( Ephesians …
34819 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1103.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual life. The apostle may mean all such intemperance and disorder as are opposite to the sober and prudent demeanor he intends in his advice, to …
34820 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1104.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual warfare with the enemies of their souls; and to the exercise of several Christian graces, which he proposes to them as so many pieces of spiritual …