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6541 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 …
6542 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 …
6543 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1117.15 (Matthew Henry)
… 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. If …
6544 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 …
6545 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1119.3 (Matthew Henry)
… their spirits, and prejudice them against the reasons we may offer. He obtests and even conjures them in the most solemn manner: By the coming of Christ, etc …
6546 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1122.2 (Matthew Henry)
… from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile; let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it, 1 Peter 3:10, 3:11. Now the reason he gives for this …
6547 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1127.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirit of fear, and hath given us the spirit of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. The spirit of power, or of courage and resolution to encounter difficulties …
6548 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1128.23 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, Ephesians 2:2. They are taken in a snare, and in the worst snare, because it is the devil’s; they are …
6549 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1129.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirit of error may be let loose for a time, God has it in a chain. Satan can deceive the nations and the churches no further and no longer than God will permit …
6550 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 …
6551 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.28 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit, are you made perfect by the flesh ? Thus having shown the end of sharply reproving the corrupt and vicious Cretans, that they might be sound in the …
6552 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 …
6553 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.7 (Matthew Henry)
… opposite evil intended, which is commonly accompanied with, or draws after it, other evils. 1 Timothy 5:13, 5:14, They learn to be idle, wandering from house to house …
6554 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,
6555 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.25 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. See in how small a compass our duty is comprised; it is put into few words, denying …
6556 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.3 (Matthew Henry)
… speak evil of no man : medena blasphemein, to revile, or curse, or blaspheme none : or (as our translation more generally) to speak evil of none, unjustly and falsely …
6557 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 …
6558 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1134.20 (Matthew Henry)
… 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 on his servant’s …
6559 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 …
6560 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 …