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92741 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1113.8 (Matthew Henry)
… their faith was a true and living faith, because a working faith. Note, Wherever there is a true faith, it will work: it will have an influence upon heart and life …
92742 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1113.9 (Matthew Henry)
… graces, faith, hope and love, but also takes notice, (1.) Of the object and efficient cause of these graces, namely, our Lord Jesus Christ. (2.) Of the sincerity of them …
92743 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1113.10 (Matthew Henry)
… their faith and assurance. Their faith was the evidence of things not seen; and the Thessalonians thus knew what manner of men the apostle and his fellow-labourers …
92744 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1113.16 (Matthew Henry)
… . Their faith was spread abroad. (1.) The readiness of their faith was famed abroad. These Thessalonians embraced the gospel as soon as it was preached to them …
92745 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.2 (Matthew Henry)
… how faithful he, and Silas, and Timotheus, his helpers in the work of the Lord, had discharged their office: You yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto …
92746 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.4 (Matthew Henry)
… and faithful; it was not fallacious, nor a cunningly-devised fable. Nor was it of uncleanness. His gospel was pure and holy, worthy of its holy author, tending …
92747 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.5 (Matthew Henry)
… be faithful. The gospel which Paul preached was not his own, but the gospel of God. Note, Ministers have a great favour shown them, and honour put upon them, and …
92748 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.6 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith. If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ, Galatians 1:10 .
92749 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.10 (Matthew Henry)
… their faithful discharge of the work and office of the ministry, 1 Thessalonians 2:11, 2:12. Concerning this also he could appeal to them as witnesses. Paul and …
92750 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.12 (Matthew Henry)
… , and faithful; and, like its author, lives and abides for ever. Let us accordingly receive and regard it.
92751 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.13 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith receive the word find it profitable. It does good to those that walk uprightly, and by its wonderful effects evidences itself to be the word of God …
92752 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.15 (Matthew Henry)
… him faithful, and put him into the ministry, and made his ministrations successful.
92753 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.16 (Matthew Henry)
… in faith and good works (which he had mentioned before), but also in constancy and patience under sufferings and trials for the sake of the gospel: You became …
92754 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.18 (Matthew Henry)
… , and faithful people will be the glory and joy of faithful ministers in that great and glorious day.
92755 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1115.4 (Matthew Henry)
… and faithful, that they might rely upon him,—concerning the recompence of faith, which was more than sufficient to balance all their losses and reward all …
92756 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1115.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith of Christ, 1 Thessalonians 3:3. He was desirous that no man, no one among them, should be moved or shaken in mind, that they should not apostatize or waver …
92757 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1115.8 (Matthew Henry)
… also, Faithful ministers are much concerned about the success of their labours. No one would willingly labour in vain; and ministers are loth to spend their …
92758 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1115.9 (Matthew Henry)
… faith failed or not, because, if their faith did not fail, they would be able to stand their ground against the tempter and all his temptations: their faith would …
92759 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1115.11 (Matthew Henry)
… their faith, that is, concerning their stedfastness in the faith, that they were not shaken in mind, nor turned aside form the profession of the gospel. Their …
92760 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1115.12 (Matthew Henry)
… their faith and the perseverance of it. This put new life and spirit into the apostle and made him vigorous and active in the work of the Lord. Thus he was not …