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4521 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1120.8 (Matthew Henry)
… into the love of God, to be in love with God as the most excellent and amiable Being, the best of all beings; and this is not only most reasonable and necessary …
4522 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1121.7 (Matthew Henry)
… to the love of God and one another; and whatever tends to weaken either our love to God or love to the brethren tends to defeat the end of the commandment: and …
4523 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1134.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all, Amen. Observe, Spiritual blessings are first and especially to be sought for ourselves …
4524 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1136.34 (Matthew Henry)
… from the love of God, but to put an end to all their grievances and complaints, and to give them a passage to eternal life and blessedness; so that to them death …
4525 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.34 (Matthew Henry)
… to the love of God in being the God of his people; and, if God neither could nor would give his people anything better than this world affords, he would be ashamed …
4526 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.15 (Matthew Henry)
… have the love of God reigning in their hearts. Every soul that truly loves God shall have its trials in this world fully recompensed in that world above where …
4527 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1151.4 (Matthew Henry)
… in the love of God; but he who sets his heart upon the world, who places his happiness in it, and will conform himself to it, and do any thing rather than lose its …
4528 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1160.18 (Matthew Henry)
… in the love of God too. We must exercise ourselves unto godliness of all sorts, in all its parts, trusting in God and delighting in God only, who continues the …
4529 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1162.7 (Matthew Henry)
… is the love of God perfected; hereby know we that we are in him, 1 John 2:5. To keep the word of God, or of Christ, is sacredly to attend thereto in all the conduct and …
4530 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1162.11 (Matthew Henry)
… in the love of God and love of the brethren cannot subsist, the apostle may justly seem to preface it with a solemn address to the several forms or orders in …
4531 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1162.13 (Matthew Henry)
… with the love of God. (2.) Because of their knowledge of God: I write unto you, little children, because you have known the Father, 1 John 2:13. Children are wont to know …
4532 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1162.17 (Matthew Henry)
… with the love of God: If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 1 John 2:15. The heart of man is narrow, and cannot contain both loves. The world …
4533 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1163.1 (Matthew Henry)
… magnifies the love of God in our adoption, 1 John 3:1, 3:2. He thereupon argues for holiness ( 1 John 3:3 ), and against sin, 1 John 3:4-3:19. He presses brotherly love, 1 John …
4534 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1163.22 (Matthew Henry)
… will, the love of God and grace of Christ, that are beloved and valued in them and towards them. And so this is the issue of faith in Christ, and is thereupon a note …
4535 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1163.24 (Matthew Henry)
… we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren, 1 John 3:16. The great God has given his Son to the death …
4536 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1163.25 (Matthew Henry)
… dwelleth the love of God in him ? 1 John 3:17. It pleases God that some of the Christian brethren should be poor, for the exercise of the charity and love of those …
4537 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1164.8 (Matthew Henry)
… manifest the love of God towards us ( 1 John 4:9 ), towards us mortals, us ungrateful rebels. God commandeth his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners …
4538 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1164.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , to the love of God, and thereupon to the love of the brethren, the children of God, for his sake, it is therein and so far perfected and completed, though this love …
4539 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1164.13 (Matthew Henry)
… of the love of God: And we have seen, and do testify, that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world, 1 John 4:14. We here see, 1. The Lord Jesus’s relation …
4540 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1164.15 (Matthew Henry)
… to the love of God: God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, 2 Corinthians 5:19. Hence we may learn,