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501 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 306.4 (Matthew Henry)
… him. Sin exposes, makes poor, and weakens any people. Shishak, king of Egypt, came and took away the treasures. Sin makes the gold become dim, changes the most fine …
502 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 315.2 (Matthew Henry)
… him. Sin weakens and impoverishes us. Man's revolt from God is often punished by the rebellion of those who owe subjection to him. Ahaziah fell through a lattice …
503 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 685.4 (Matthew Henry)
… wickedly. Sin weakens the strength, the root of a people; it defaces the beauty, the blossoms of a people. When God's word is despised, and his law cast away, what …
504 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 738.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of sin and oppression must be removed. As sin and sorrow dry the bones and weaken the strongest human constitution; so the duties of kindness and charity strengthen …
505 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 923.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , as weakening the brotherhood among them. This follows the dissolving of the covenant between God and them: when sin abounds, love waxes cold, and civil contests …
506 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1053.3 (Matthew Henry)
… is weakened and in a dying state, though it yet struggles for life, and even for victory. But the whole body of sin, whatever is not according to the holy law of …
507 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1061.5 (Matthew Henry)
… into sin or trouble; or has his graces, his comforts, or his resolutions weakened. Hast thou faith? It is meant of knowledge and clearness as to our Christian …
508 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1111.2 (Matthew Henry)
… will weaken and abate affection to the other. Those that are born again are dead to sin, because its dominion is broken, its power gradually subdued by the operation …
509 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1116.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , or weaken one another's hands. And this may be done by the many lessons to be learned from the resurrection of the dead, and the second coming of Christ. What …
510 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1121.3 (Matthew Henry)
… to weaken love to God, or love to the brethren, tends to defeat the end of the commandment. The design of the gospel is answered, when sinners, through repentance …
511 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1133.2 (Matthew Henry)
… or weaken, but confirm civil duties. Mere good words and good meanings are not enough without good works. They were not to be quarrelsome, but to show meekness …
512 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1143.4 (Matthew Henry)
… any sinful stain in his nature or life. This cleanses the most guilty conscience from dead, or deadly, works to serve the living God; from sinful works, such as …
513 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1163.5 (Matthew Henry)
… must weaken the evidences of a man's conversion; when habitual and allowed, it must decide against him. If conscience condemn us in known sin, or the neglect …
514 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 4.17 (Matthew Henry)
… sinner sinned against. He had no corrupt nature within him to betray him; but had a freedom of will, not enslaved, and was in his full strength, not weakened or …
515 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 28.21 (Matthew Henry)
… is weakened and taken off by the distances both of time and place. She promised herself that his brother’s anger would turn away. Note, Yielding pacifies great …
516 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 37.5 (Matthew Henry)
… to weaken it, by turning it into divers channels. For the transgression of a land, many are the princes thereof. Sin brought Edom from kings to dukes, from crowns …
517 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 196.3 (Matthew Henry)
… church weaken the hands, and damp the spirits, of her guides and helpers, more than oppositions from without; treacherous Israelites are to be dreaded more …
518 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 213.6 (Matthew Henry)
… great weakening to those that were already brought so very low. 2. How their king was taken and mortified. His name was Adoni-bezek, which signifies, lord of Bezek …
519 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 215.11 (Matthew Henry)
… old sins because they saw themselves in no danger from their old oppressor; the powers of that kingdom were weakened and brought low. But God made them know …
520 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 219.5 (Matthew Henry)
… to weaken the church and its interests: its friends are too many, too mighty, too wise, for God to work deliverance by; God is taking a course to lessen them, that …