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4061 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1117.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit if we do not stir up our spirits, and all that is within us, to comply with the motions of the good Spirit; and as fire is quenched by pouring water, or …
4062 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1122.2 (Matthew Henry)
… are not truly honest if we are not godly, and do not render to God his due; and we are not truly godly if we are not honest, for God hates robbery for burnt-offering …
4063 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1127.5 (Matthew Henry)
… . The spirit God gives to his ministers is not a fearful, but a courageous spirit; it is a spirit of power, for they speak in his name who has all power, both in heaven …
4064 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1128.23 (Matthew Henry)
… with evil, and in meekness instructing ( 2 Timothy 2:25 ) not only those who subject themselves, but those who oppose themselves. Observe, 1. Those who oppose themselves …
4065 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1129.5 (Matthew Henry)
… houses, not daring to appear openly; for those that do evil hate the light, John 3:20. They were not forced into houses, as good Christians often were by persecution …
4066 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1130.21 (Matthew Henry)
… reward evil”doers, particularly apostates, according to their works. (5.) Of such as are of Alexander’s spirit and temper we should beware; for they will do us …
4067 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.28 (Matthew Henry)
… must not be of malice, nor hatred, nor ill-will, but of love; not to gratify pride, passion, nor any evil affection in the reprover, but to reclaim and reform the erroneous …
4068 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.29 (Matthew Henry)
… the evil and mischief of a Jewish spirit under the Christian dispensation in the Titus 1:15, 1:16. To good Christians that are sound in the faith and thereby …
4069 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.7 (Matthew Henry)
… cheerful spirit and temper, not sullen nor bitter; not taunting not fretting and galling any; not of a troublesome or jarring disposition, uneasy in herself …
4070 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.24 (Matthew Henry)
… and spirit. Thus the gospel first unteaches that which is evil, to abandon sin; and then,
4071 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.25 (Matthew Henry)
… is not made up of negatives only; there must be doing good as well as eschewing evil; in these conjunctly is sincerity proved and the gospel adorned. We should …
4072 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.3 (Matthew Henry)
… moderated, not indulged; and Christians need to be reminded of these things, that they do not by a wrathful contentious spirit and behaviour displease and …
4073 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.5 (Matthew Henry)
… many evils spring: evil thoughts and speeches, tongues set on fire of hell, detracting from and impairing the just and due praises of others. Their words are …
4074 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1134.20 (Matthew Henry)
… would not sink his spirit by continuing to load and burden him therewith, but speaks thus tenderly when he is pleading with Phlm. not to make severe reflections …
4075 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1135.27 (Matthew Henry)
… ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation. Note, (1.) What the angels are as to their nature: they are spirits, without …
4076 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1138.19 (Matthew Henry)
… of spirit and a liberty of speech; we should ask in faith, nothing doubting; we should come with a Spirit of adoption, as children to a reconciled God and Father …
4077 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.14 (Matthew Henry)
… an evil conscience. The former priesthood rather kept men at a distance, and under a spirit of bondage.
4078 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1144.20 (Matthew Henry)
… Holy Spirit, reforming and regulating our outward conversation as well as our inward frame, cleansing from the filthiness of the flesh as well as of the spirit …
4079 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.18 (Matthew Henry)
… care not to err in our conceptions of God: “ Do not err, my beloved brethren, me lanasthe — do not wander, that is, from the word of God, and the accounts of him you have …
4080 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1150.5 (Matthew Henry)
… own spirit or in the spirits of others. But,