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93041 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.11 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian faith, as if that would save them, while the temper of their minds and the tenour of their lives were altogether disagreeable to that holy religion …
93042 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.12 (Matthew Henry)
… our faith being justified before men: “ Show me thy faith by thy works ,” says James, “let thy faith be justified in the eyes of those that behold thee by thy works …
93043 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.14 (Matthew Henry)
… . That faith without works will not profit, and cannot save us. What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him ? Observe …
93044 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.15 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith will bear you out before God without works of piety and obedience. Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being along ,” James 2:17. We are too apt to rest …
93045 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.16 (Matthew Henry)
… hast faith, and I have works. Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works, James 2:18. Suppose a true believer thus pleading with …
93046 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.17 (Matthew Henry)
… a faith of bare speculation and knowledge as the faith of devils: Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well; the devils also believe, and tremble …
93047 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.18 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith without works is to be looked upon at present as a foolish condemned person. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead ? James 2:20 …
93048 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.19 (Matthew Henry)
6. We are taught that a justifying faith cannot be without works, from two examples, Abraham and Rahab.
93049 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.20 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith make it grow perfect, as the truth of faith makes it act. [5.] Such an acting faith will make others, as well as Abraham, friends of God. Thus Christ says to …
93050 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.21 (Matthew Henry)
… his faith all his life long, This is of one noted for sin, whose faith was meaner and of a much lower degree; so that the strongest faith will not do, nor the meanest …
93051 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.22 (Matthew Henry)
… , so faith without works is dead also, James 2:26. These words are read differently; some reading them, As the body without the breath is dead, so is faith without …
93052 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1150.2 (Matthew Henry)
… dead faith is without works. It is plainly intimated by what this chapter first goes upon that such a faith is, however, apt to make men conceited and magisterial …
93053 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1151.3 (Matthew Henry)
… with faith or not with fervency: unbelieving and cold desires beg denials; and this we may be sure of, that, when our prayers are rather the language of our lusts …
93054 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1151.7 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith, repentance, and reformation, or it will be in vain for us to draw nigh to God in prayer, or in any of the exercises of devotion. 3. The hearts of the double …
93055 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1151.8 (Matthew Henry)
… in faith, and trust, and obedience, and he will draw nigh to you for your deliverance. If there be not a close communion between God and us, it is our fault, and not …
93056 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1152.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the faithful are exhorted to patience under their trials and sufferings, James 5:7-5:11. The sin of swearing is cautioned against, James 5:12. We are directed …
93057 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1152.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the faithful, and was sent principally to them, yet, by an apostrophe, the infidel Jews may be well supposed here spoken to. They would not hear the word, and therefore …
93058 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1152.7 (Matthew Henry)
… your faith be firm, without wavering, your practice of what is good constant and continued, without tiring, and your resolutions for God and heaven fixed, in …
93059 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1152.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the faithful ( James 5:11 ): We count those happy who endure : we look upon righteous and patient sufferers as the happiest people. See James 1:2-1:12. (5.) Job also is proposed …
93060 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1152.13 (Matthew Henry)
… exercise faith and hope under afflictions; and prayer is the appointed means both for obtaining and increasing these graces in us. Isa. any afflicted? Let …