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4041 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1069.4 (Matthew Henry)
… trifles not worth contending about, and may easily be decided, if you have first conquered your own spirits, and brought them into a truly Christian temper …
4042 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1070.22 (Matthew Henry)
… and spirit, 1 Corinthians 7:32, 7:34. Not but the married person may be holy both in body and spirit too. Celibacy is not in itself a state of greater purity and sanctity …
4043 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1074.6 (Matthew Henry)
… ministering spirits are many of them present in their assemblies. Their presence should restrain Christians from all indecencies in the worship of God …
4044 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit of God, true spiritual gifts: No man, speaking by the Spirit, calls Jesus accursed. Thus did both Jews and Gentiles: they blasphemed him as an impostor …
4045 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1076.12 (Matthew Henry)
… rejoiceth not in iniquity. It takes no pleasure in doing injury or hurt to any. It thinks not evil of any, without very clear proof. It wishes ill to none, much less …
4046 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1078.7 (Matthew Henry)
… humble spirit will be very apt to own and magnify the grace of God. A humble spirit is commonly a gracious one. Where pride is subdued there it is reasonable …
4047 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1078.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit, and the spiritual nature, revive, and become immortal. All who die die through the sin of Adam; all who are raised, in the sense of the apostle, rise through …
4048 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1079.12 (Matthew Henry)
… his spirit would be to grieve the Holy Spirit; to despise him would be to despise him that sent him, not Paul, but Paul’s Lord and theirs. Note, Those who work the …
4049 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit, which was peculiarly reserved for the times of the gospel. Hence it appeared that it was not by putting themselves under the law, but by faith in …
4050 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1097.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit of love should depart from them, and that the evil spirit, who seeks the destruction of them all, should prevail?
4051 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1097.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirit : it opposes all the motions of the Spirit, and resists every thing that is spiritual. On the other hand, the spirit (the renewed part of us) strives against …
4052 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1097.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit; that is, “If we profess to have received the Spirit of Christ, or that we are renewed in the Spirit of Christ, or that we …
4053 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1100.2 (Matthew Henry)
… good Spirit works that which is good in obedient souls, so this evil spirit works that which is evil in wicked men; and he now works, not only heretofore, but even …
4054 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1102.16 (Matthew Henry)
… is not enough to cease to do evil, but we must learn to do well. “ Be renewed in the spirit of your mind ( Ephesians 4:23 ); that is, use the proper and prescribed means …
4055 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1102.17 (Matthew Henry)
… spirits, be reconciled to the offender, and let all be well again: Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. If it burn into wrath and bitterness of spirit, O see …
4056 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1102.18 (Matthew Henry)
… grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, Ephesians 4:30. By looking to what precedes, and to what follows, we may see what it is that grieves the Spirit of God. In the Ephesians …
4057 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1103.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit, Ephesians 5:9. This is expected from the children of light, that, being illuminated, they be also sanctified by the Spirit, and thereupon bring forth …
4058 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1105.20 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit of Christ. Note, Whatever turns to our salvation is by the supply or the aids and assistance of the Spirit of Christ; and prayer is the appointed means …
4059 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1109.11 (Matthew Henry)
… blessed Spirit is the author of this strength; for we are strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inward man, Ephesians 3:16. The word of God is the means …
4060 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1117.15 (Matthew Henry)
… . 6. Not to render evil for evil to any man, 1 Thessalonians 5:15. This we must look to, and be very careful about, that is, we must by all means forbear to avenge ourselves …