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93121 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1158.20 (Matthew Henry)
… . Mix faith therefore with what you find in the scriptures; esteem and reverence your Bible as a book written by holy men, inspired, influenced, and assisted …
93122 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1159.4 (Matthew Henry)
… . The faithful ministers of Christ, who show men the way of truth, desire the profit and advantage of their followers, that they may be saved; but these seducing …
93123 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1159.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith, are condemned already, and the wrath of God abideth on them. The righteous Judge will speedily take vengeance; the day of their calamity is at hand …
93124 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1159.13 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith, and judge of things according to their senses; as these represent things pleasant and agreeable, so they must be approved and esteemed. Brute-creatures …
93125 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1160.5 (Matthew Henry)
… by faithful witnesses, and left upon sure record, he is also firmly and fully persuaded that he will come: on the other hand, these seducers, because they wish …
93126 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1160.14 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith and patience, to abound in good works, doing and suffering what they are called to, that they may bring glory to God, and improve in a meetness for heaven …
93127 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1160.18 (Matthew Henry)
… is faithful who has promised. “See therefore that you raise and regulate your expectations of all the great things that are to come according to the word of …
93128 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1160.24 (Matthew Henry)
… , in faith, and virtue, and knowledge. By how much the stronger grace is in us, by so much the more stedfast shall we be in the truth. (2.) We must grow in the knowledge …
93129 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1161.3 (Matthew Henry)
… our faith and hope, the bond and cement that unite us unto God. He should be well known; and he is represented here, 1. As the Word of life, 1 John 1:1. In the gospel these …
93130 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1161.6 (Matthew Henry)
IV. With the reason of the apostle’s exhibiting and asserting this summary of sacred faith, and this breviate of evidence attending it. This reason is twofold:—
93131 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1161.7 (Matthew Henry)
… precious faith, there are the same precious promises dignifying and crowning that faith and the same precious blessings and glories enriching and filling …
93132 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1161.8 (Matthew Henry)
… holy faith, how would they rejoice! The disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost, Acts 13:52 .
93133 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1161.10 (Matthew Henry)
… found faithful, and faithfully to deliver the errands and messages they had received. What was communicated to them they were solicitous to impart: This …
93134 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1161.12 (Matthew Henry)
… continual faith in, thankfulness for, and love to the Redeemer, and hopeful joyful expectation of a day of glorious redemption, in which the believer shall …
93135 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1161.13 (Matthew Henry)
… is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, 1 John 1:9. God is faithful to his covenant and word, wherein he has promised …
93136 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1162.3 (Matthew Henry)
… is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, etc., 1 John 1:9. And so the words are a preclusion of all abuse of such favour and indulgence. “Though sins will be forgiven …
93137 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1162.29 (Matthew Henry)
… his faithful adherents. It is suitable to his own greatness, power, and goodness. It is eternal life, which none but God can give. The blessed God puts great value …
93138 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1163.1 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith, 1 John 3:23. And the good of obedience, 1 John 3:24 .
93139 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1163.2 (Matthew Henry)
The apostle, having shown the dignity of Christ’s faithful followers, that they are born of him and thereby nearly allied to God, now here,
93140 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1163.5 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith, and live by hope. 3. The time of the revelation of the sons of God in their proper state and glory is determined; and that is when their elder brother comes …