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92801 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1123.10 (Matthew Henry)
… other faithful ministers, are the pillars and ground of truth; it is their business to maintain, hold up, and publish, the truths of Christ in the church. It is …
92802 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1124.3 (Matthew Henry)
… faith. Some, not all; for in the worst of times God will have a remnant, according to the election of grace. They shall depart from the faith, the faith delivered …
92803 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1124.5 (Matthew Henry)
… no faith is to be kept with heretics, could never divest themselves of all remains of humanity and compassion, and clothe themselves with the most barbarous …
92804 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1124.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith, and draw in others to side with them. (7.) It is a sign that men have departed from the faith when they will command what God has forbidden, such as saint …
92805 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1124.7 (Matthew Henry)
… in faith. Here observe, [1.] Every creature is God’s, for he made all. Every beast in the forest is mine (says God), and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the …
92806 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1124.8 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith. 2. The best way for ministers to grow in knowledge and faith is to put the brethren in remembrance; while we teach others, we teach ourselves. 3. Those …
92807 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1124.10 (Matthew Henry)
… Paul’s faithful sayings, worthy of all acceptation—that all our labours and losses in the service of God and the work of religion will be abundantly recompensed …
92808 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1124.12 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith and labour of love. [3.] True Christians trust in the living God; for cursed is the man that trusts in man, or in any but the living God; and those that trust …
92809 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1124.16 (Matthew Henry)
… ,— in faith, that is, in the profession of Christian faith,—and in purity or chastity.
92810 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1125.4 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith we confide in God, by prayer we must give glory to God and commit ourselves to his guidance. Anna was a widow indeed, who departed not from the temple …
92811 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1125.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith; for the design of Christ was to confirm the law of Moses, and particularly the law of the fifth commandment, which is, Honour thy father and mother …
92812 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1125.7 (Matthew Henry)
… first faith. You read of a first love ( Revelation 2:4 ), and here of a first faith, that is, the engagements they gave to the church to behave well, and as became the …
92813 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1126.2 (Matthew Henry)
… are faithful and beloved. They must think themselves the more obliged to serve them because the faith and love that bespeak men Christians oblige them to …
92814 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1126.3 (Matthew Henry)
… profess faith in him will dispute the aptness or authority of his words who is their Lord and teacher, and it has never gone well with the church since the words …
92815 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1126.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith of Christ; while they coveted money, they erred from the faith, they quitted their Christianity, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows …
92816 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1126.13 (Matthew Henry)
… all faithful ministers make before many witnesses is a good profession; for they profess and engage to fight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold on eternal …
92817 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1126.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith; those who are for advancing reason above faith are in danger of leaving faith.
92818 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1127.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the faithful witness; for all the promises of God in Christ Jesus are yea, and all amen, 2 Corinthians 1:20. He calls Timothy his beloved son. Paul felt the warmest …
92819 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1127.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the faithful ministers of Christ. Paul had remembrance of his dearly beloved son Timothy in his prayers night and day. 3. The faith that dwells in real believers …
92820 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1127.9 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith: we all with open face, as in a glass, behold the glory of God. He has brought it to light, not only set it before us, but offered it to us, by the gospel. Let us …