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92861 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.13 (Matthew Henry)
… be faithful and cheerful in the station wherein God hath set them, striving to please their masters in all things. Hard it may be under some churlish Nabals …
92862 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.15 (Matthew Henry)
… it. Faithfulness in a servant lies in the ready, punctual, and thorough execution of his master’s orders; keeping his secrets and counsels, despatching his …
92863 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.16 (Matthew Henry)
… , and faithful conduct in all things. Even servants, though they may think that such as they, in so low and inferior a condition, can do little to bring repute to …
92864 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.20 (Matthew Henry)
… to faith, and so to life, the life of holiness now and of happiness hereafter. The law is the ministration of death, but the gospel the ministration of life and …
92865 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.22 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith, Romans 16:25, 16:26. The doctrine of grace and salvation by the gospel is for all ranks and conditions of men (slaves and servants, as well as masters), therefore …
92866 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.25 (Matthew Henry)
… that faith and hope in this present world, and as expectants of another and better. There is the world that now is, and that which is to come; the present is the …
92867 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.35 (Matthew Henry)
… and faithfulness reprove sin, and carefully look to thyself and thy own conduct, and then none will despise thee.” The most effectual way for ministers to secure …
92868 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.36 (Matthew Henry)
… a faithful minister of Christ, and encouraged and supported in his work and office. “ Know those that labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish …
92869 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, Ephesians 2:8. Faith and all saving graces are God’s free gift and his work; the beginning, increase …
92870 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.12 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith, as circumcision was, in the place of which it succeeds; and on ours an engagement to be the Lord’s. Thus baptism saves figuratively and sacramentally …
92871 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.14 (Matthew Henry)
… general faith, and of more special gifts of sanctification too, such as faith, and hope, and love, and other graces of the Spirit. Let us get a share in these. What …
92872 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.16 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith ( Romans 3:20 ): By the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified; but through the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon …
92873 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.17 (Matthew Henry)
… naked faith will save them; but it must be an operative working faith, bringing forth the fruit of righteousness; they must make it their care to maintain good …
92874 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.19 (Matthew Henry)
… to faith or practice; avoid these.— And genealogies (of the gods, say some, that the heathen poets made such noise about; or rather those that the Jews were so curious …
92875 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.20 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith in weighty and momentous points, and breaks the peace of the church about them, after due means used to reclaim him, must be rejected. “Admonish him …
92876 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.22 (Matthew Henry)
… , and faithful minister, and fellow-servant in the Lord : one fit therefore for the service intimated. When Paul says to Titus, Be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis …
92877 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.23 (Matthew Henry)
… and faithful minister. Accompanying such persons part of their way, and accommodating them for their work and journeys, was a pious and needful service; and …
92878 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1133.24 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith, or for the faith, who are our loving fellow-christians. Holiness, or the image of God in any, is the great endearing thing that gives strength to all …
92879 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1134.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith and preaching of the gospel, this was true glory, and proper to move Phlm. upon the request made to him by such a one. A petition from one suffering for …
92880 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1134.4 (Matthew Henry)
… are faithful therein. The general calling as Christians knits those together who are Christian; but, when conjunction in the special calling as ministers …