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6541 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1063.20 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirits, to prove all things, and then to hold fast that only which is good.” There is need of a great deal of wisdom in our adherence to good truths, and good …
6542 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1065.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit of God, such as Jude calls sensual, not having the Spirit, Jude 1:19. Men unsanctified receive not the things of God. The understanding, through the …
6543 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1068.5 (Matthew Henry)
… spirit, he had judged already as if he had been present; that is, he had, by revelation and the miraculous gift of discerning vouchsafed him by the Spirit, as …
6544 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1069.4 (Matthew Henry)
… own spirits, and brought them into a truly Christian temper. Bear and forbear, and the men of meanest skill among you may end your quarrels. I speak it to your …
6545 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1070.22 (Matthew Henry)
… and spirit, 1 Corinthians 7:32, 7:34. Not but the married person may be holy both in body and spirit too. Celibacy is not in itself a state of greater purity and sanctity …
6546 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1074.6 (Matthew Henry)
… ministering spirits are many of them present in their assemblies. Their presence should restrain Christians from all indecencies in the worship of God …
6547 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit of God, true spiritual gifts: No man, speaking by the Spirit, calls Jesus accursed. Thus did both Jews and Gentiles: they blasphemed him as an impostor …
6548 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1076.12 (Matthew Henry)
… charitable spirit than its sport or delight; they will touch it to the quick, and stir all its compassion, but give it no entertainment. It is the very height …
6549 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1078.7 (Matthew Henry)
… humble spirit will be very apt to own and magnify the grace of God. A humble spirit is commonly a gracious one. Where pride is subdued there it is reasonable …
6550 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1078.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit, and the spiritual nature, revive, and become immortal. All who die die through the sin of Adam; all who are raised, in the sense of the apostle, rise through …
6551 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1079.12 (Matthew Henry)
… his spirit would be to grieve the Holy Spirit; to despise him would be to despise him that sent him, not Paul, but Paul’s Lord and theirs. Note, Those who work the …
6552 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit, which was peculiarly reserved for the times of the gospel. Hence it appeared that it was not by putting themselves under the law, but by faith in …
6553 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1097.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit of love should depart from them, and that the evil spirit, who seeks the destruction of them all, should prevail?
6554 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1097.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirit : it opposes all the motions of the Spirit, and resists every thing that is spiritual. On the other hand, the spirit (the renewed part of us) strives against …
6555 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1097.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit; that is, “If we profess to have received the Spirit of Christ, or that we are renewed in the Spirit of Christ, or that we …
6556 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1100.2 (Matthew Henry)
… good Spirit works that which is good in obedient souls, so this evil spirit works that which is evil in wicked men; and he now works, not only heretofore, but even …
6557 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1102.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirit of your mind ( Ephesians 4:23 ); that is, use the proper and prescribed means in order to have the mind, which is a spirit, renewed more and more.” And that …
6558 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1102.17 (Matthew Henry)
… your spirits greatly discomposed, and if you have bitterly resented any affront that has been offered, before night calm and quiet your spirits, be reconciled …
6559 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1102.18 (Matthew Henry)
… Holy Spirit of God, Ephesians 4:30. By looking to what precedes, and to what follows, we may see what it is that grieves the Spirit of God. In the Ephesians 4:25-4:29 …
6560 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1103.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit, Ephesians 5:9. This is expected from the children of light, that, being illuminated, they be also sanctified by the Spirit, and thereupon bring forth …