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801 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 892.3 (Matthew Henry)
… us confess our sins, consider Christ's resurrection as an earnest of our own, and thankfully receive every temporal and spiritual deliverance, as the pledge …
802 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 929.4 (Matthew Henry)
… will confess that those alone were wise and happy, who served the Lord and trusted in Him.
803 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 940.4 (Matthew Henry)
… confession only can have the blessed recompence here promised, which is the real and constant language of faith and love. Religion is worth every thing …
804 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 985.4 (Matthew Henry)
… common sins, by a forced confession, as Pharaoh's; by a feigned contrition, as Ahab's; or by a partial reformation, as Herod's. The house is swept, but it is not washed …
805 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1038.4 (Matthew Henry)
… for sin, there will be free confession of sin to God in every prayer and to man whom we have offended, when the case requires it. Surely if the word of God prevailed …
806 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1104.4 (Matthew Henry)
… prayer; confession of sin, petition for mercy, and thanksgiving for favours received. And we must do it by the grace of God the Holy Spirit, in dependence on, and …
807 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1152.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of sin. Let nothing be done to encourage any to delay, under the mistaken fancy that a confession, a prayer, a minister's absolution and exhortation, or the sacrament …
808 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1158.4 (Matthew Henry)
… their sins, and this is that powerful pleading which makes good men confess that their hearts burn within them, and bad men, even an Agrippa, to say they are almost …
809 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1170.2 (Matthew Henry)
… as sinful. They must repent: they must be grieved and ashamed for their sinful declining, and humbly confess it in the sight of God. They must endeavour to recover …
810 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 51.5 (Matthew Henry)
… him, confessed their fault, and begged his pardon. They did it by proxy ( Genesis 50:17 ); they did it in person, Genesis 50:18. Now that the sun and moon had set, the eleven …
811 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 60.15 (Matthew Henry)
… to confessions upon the rack. Note also, Those that are not bettered by judgments and mercies are commonly made worse.
812 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 80.15 (Matthew Henry)
… of sin and often repeat the confession of it. [2.] That those sacrifices which were thus offered day by day to make atonement could not make the comers thereunto …
813 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 94.4 (Matthew Henry)
… for sin, as those who know that the best of their services cannot be accepted unless through him their sins be pardoned. Penitent confessions must always …
814 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 104.3 (Matthew Henry)
… freely confess their sins, and hide them not, there is no danger comparable to theirs that cover their sins. Some gather this from it, that there is more hope …
815 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 107.7 (Matthew Henry)
… confessions we should take notice of them, and not only say, I have sinned, but, with Achan, “Thus and thus have I done.” By this confession he must put the sins of Israel …
816 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 123.10 (Matthew Henry)
… confessed she was defiled, the priest flung down the water, and cast her offering among the ashes, and she was divorced without dowry: if she confessed not …
817 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 146.4 (Matthew Henry)
… a sin-offering, Numbers 28:15. For, when we give glory to God by confessing his mercies, we must give glory to him likewise by confessing our own sins; and, when we …
818 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 195.14 (Matthew Henry)
… a confession; but his heart was hardened through the deceitfulness of sin, and it proved to be to his own destruction. We may well imagine how his countenance …
819 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 269.6 (Matthew Henry)
… himself confess the crime, so that the evidence was, by the consent of all laws, sufficient to convict him; for every man is presumed to make the best of himself …
820 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 279.9 (Matthew Henry)
… David’s sin, and that the baffling of his design to conceal it might awaken David’s conscience to confess it and repent of it. 3. The reason he gave to David for …