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93021 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.1 (Matthew Henry)
… , and faith, and free grace, and gospel privileges, and warned the Hebrews against apostasy, now, in the close of all, recommends several excellent duties to them …
93022 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.3 (Matthew Henry)
… love. Faith works by love. The true religion is the strongest bond of friendship; if it be not so, it has its name for nothing. 2. This brotherly love was in danger …
93023 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the faithful servants of God. Old-Testament promises may be applied to New-Testament saints. This promise contains the sum and substance of all the promises …
93024 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.15 (Matthew Henry)
… their faith; be stedfast in the profession of the faith they preached to you, and labour after the grace of faith by which they lived and died so well. Consider …
93025 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.16 (Matthew Henry)
… their faithful adherence to his truths, and to observe and punish their sinful departure from him. Christ is the same in the Old-Testament day, in the gospel …
93026 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.18 (Matthew Henry)
a. They were divers and various ( Hebrews 13:9 ), different from what they had received from their former faithful teachers, and inconsistent with themselves.
93027 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.28 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith, and seek in Christ the rest and settlement which this world cannot afford us, Hebrews 13:14. Thirdly, Let us make a right use of this altar; not only partake …
93028 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.29 (Matthew Henry)
… . If faithful ministers be not successful, the grief will be theirs, but the loss will be the people’s. Faithful ministers have delivered their own souls, but …
93029 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.33 (Matthew Henry)
… and faithful conscience, a conscience testifying for us, not against us: a good conscience in all things, in the duties both of the first and second table, towards …
93030 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.36 (Matthew Henry)
… of faithful ministers is an honour to them, and their enlargement is matter of joy to the people. He was pleased with the hopes of not only seeing Timothy, but …
93031 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.4 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian faith. They were persecuted and forced to seek for shelter in other countries, the Gentiles being kinder to Christians than the Jews were. Note …
93032 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.10 (Matthew Henry)
2. Faith is a grace that one expression supposes and another expressly requires: Knowing this, that the trial of your faith, James 1:3; and then in James 1:6; Let …
93033 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith worketh patience. The trying of one grace produces another; and the more the suffering graces of a Christian are exercised the stronger they grow …
93034 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.12 (Matthew Henry)
… is faithful to make good his word to those who apply to him. This was the condition Christ insisted on, in treating with those who came to him for healing: Believest …
93035 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.13 (Matthew Henry)
… wavering faith and spirit has a bad influence upon our conversations. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, James 1:8. When our faith and spirits rise …
93036 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the faithful, was rich in silver and gold. 3. Both these are allowed to rejoice. No condition of lie puts us out of a capacity of rejoicing in God. If we do not rejoice …
93037 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.18 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith, purity, and all manner of consolation is from him. So that we have nothing good but what we receive from God, as there is no evil or sin in us, or done by us …
93038 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.1 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith without works, telling us that this is but a dead faith, and such a faith as devils have, not the faith of Abraham, or of Rahab, James 2:11-2:26 .
93039 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons, James 2:1. Observe here, 1. The character of Christians fully implied: they are such …
93040 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.5 (Matthew Henry)
… in faith, there will be also divine love; faith working by love will be in all the heirs of glory. Note once more, under this head, Heaven is a kingdom, and a kingdom …