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4201 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 648.13 (Matthew Henry)
… a choice gift of God’s providence to a man—a wife that is prudent, in opposition to one that is contentious, Proverbs 18:13. For, though a wife that is continually …
4202 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 650.9 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice and his management, and disturbs his company. 2. What many a man is forced to do under such an affliction. He cannot keep up his authority. He finds it …
4203 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 651.28 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of a friend, that we come not under the sacred tie to any one whom it would be our folly to accommodate ourselves to. Thought we must be civil to all …
4204 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 656.7 (Matthew Henry)
… be choice of it. (1.) Because of the pleasure of it. There is a great deal of sweetness in conversing and consulting with a cordial friend. It is like ointment and …
4205 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 658.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , whether choice or refuse, corn or chaff, pertinent or impertinent, you shall have it all. 2. It is a piece of wisdom to be upon the reserve: A wise man will not utter …
4206 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 660.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of a wife; she must be chaste and modest, diligent and frugal, dutiful to her husband, careful of her family, discreet in her discourse, and in the education …
4207 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 660.16 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice of a wife by it. There may be an impure deformed soul lodged in a comely and beautiful body; nay, many have been exposed by their beauty to such temptations …
4208 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 664.4 (Matthew Henry)
… own choice, should have praised their wisdom for but looking into the world and then retiring, as not liking it. I concluded that it is better with them than …
4209 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.2 (Matthew Henry)
… thy choice (so some), thy choice days, thy choosing days. “Begin in the beginning of thy days to remember him from whom thou hadst thy being, and go on according to …
4210 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.16 (Matthew Henry)
… was choice and exact in it; all he did was elaborate. (1.) He chose the most profitable way of preaching, by proverbs or short sentences, which would be more easily …
4211 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 677.17 (Matthew Henry)
… soul’s choice, my soul’s rest, my life, my joy, my all; this is he whom I desire to live and die with.”
4212 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 678.5 (Matthew Henry)
… her choice too well to change. Our communion with God is very much maintained and kept up by the frequent renewing of our covenant with him and rejoicing in …
4213 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 678.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice one of her that bore her, more excellent than all the societies of men this world ever produced. All the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them …
4214 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 679.8 (Matthew Henry)
… pomegranates, choice and useful trees. We are made keepers of these vineyards, and therefore are concerned often to look into them, to examine the state of …
4215 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 686.20 (Matthew Henry)
… a choice and well-accomplished messenger, Jeremiah 49:19. God now appeared, attended with holy angels, and yet asks, Whom shall I send ? For he would send them a …
4216 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 690.22 (Matthew Henry)
… ), the choice troops of his army, the veterans, the troops of the household, the bravest regiments he had, that he was most proud of and depended most upon, that he …
4217 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 694.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice he had made of them ( Isaiah 14:1 ): “ The Lord will have mercy on Jacob, the seed of Jacob now captives in Babylon; he will make it to appear that he has compassion …
4218 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 694.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice go with them in the meanest post, rather than not go with them: They shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids; and as the …
4219 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 696.10 (Matthew Henry)
… with choice and noble vines, with principal plants, which reached even to Jazer, a city in the tribe of Gad. The luxuriant branches of their vines wandered, and …
4220 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 699.17 (Matthew Henry)
… own choice to have such a king, that they should cry to him by reason of their king, and he would not hear them, 1 Samuel 8:18 .