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92581 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1080.16 (Matthew Henry)
… and faithfulness.
92582 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1080.17 (Matthew Henry)
… . For by faith we stand firmly, and live safely and comfortably. Our strength and ability are owing to faith, and our comfort and joy must flow from faith.
92583 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1081.2 (Matthew Henry)
… discipline, faithful ministers show their love. [2.] Needful censures, and the exercise of church-discipline towards offenders, are a grief to tender-spirited …
92584 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1081.10 (Matthew Henry)
… .) Because faithful ministers shall be accepted of God, whatever their success be: We are, if faithful, unto God a sweet savour of Christ ( 2 Corinthians 2:15 ), in those …
92585 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1082.3 (Matthew Henry)
… to faithful ministers, nor more to their commendation, than the success of their ministry, evidenced in the hearts and lives of those among whom they labour …
92586 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1082.7 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith is revealed. This shows us that the just shall live by his faith. This reveals the grace and mercy of God through Jesus Christ, for obtaining the remission …
92587 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1083.3 (Matthew Henry)
… counted faithful, and be put into the ministry ( 1 Timothy 1:12 ), so it is owing to the mercy and grace of God if we continue faithful and persevere in our work with …
92588 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1083.9 (Matthew Henry)
1. Faith kept them from fainting: We have the same spirit of faith ( 2 Corinthians 4:13 ), that faith which is of the operation of the Spirit; the same faith by which …
92589 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1083.13 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith that we see God, who is invisible ( Hebrews 11:27 ), and by this we look to an unseen heaven and hell, and faith is the evidence of things not seen. Note, [1.] There …
92590 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1084.4 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith of the truth and reality of the thing itself—that there is another and a happy life after this present life is ended, but he has good hope through grace …
92591 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1084.7 (Matthew Henry)
… . Note, Faith is for this world, and sight is reserved for the other world: and it is our duty, and will be our interest, to walk by faith, till we come to live by sight …
92592 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1084.12 (Matthew Henry)
… their faith and quickening their affections; for it is the will of God that we should not know Christ any more after the flesh. 2. A thorough change of the heart …
92593 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1084.15 (Matthew Henry)
… God. Faithful ministers are Christ’s ambassadors, sent to treat with sinners on peace and reconciliation: they come in God’s name, with his entreaties, and …
92594 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1085.3 (Matthew Henry)
… be faithful, they may hope to find God working with them, and their labour will be effectual. 2. Observe the language and way of the spirit of the gospel: it is not …
92595 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1085.7 (Matthew Henry)
… themselves faithful, as became the ministers of God, 2 Corinthians 6:4. We see how much stress the apostle upon all occasions lays on fidelity in our work, because …
92596 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1085.9 (Matthew Henry)
… your faith and your joy; and, if it be otherwise, the fault is in yourselves; it is because you are straitened in yourselves, and fail in suitable returns to us …
92597 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1086.3 (Matthew Henry)
… . Note, Faith and hope in the promises of God must not destroy our fear of God, who taketh pleasure in those that fear him and hope in his mercy .
92598 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1086.6 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian faith, lest they should be corrupted or seduced, and give scandal to others, or be scandalized.
92599 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1086.7 (Matthew Henry)
… common faith ( Titus 1:4 ), was a great comfort to the apostle in his travels and troubles. But, 2. The good news which Titus brought concerning the Corinthians was …
92600 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1086.11 (Matthew Henry)
… a faithful minister to have to do with a people whom he can confide in, and who he has reason to hope will comply with every thing he proposes to them that is for …