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93181 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.14 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith and manners, but not till they have explained them, and imposed their sense of them upon all about them. Or, as others account for the sense of this passage …
93182 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.19 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith, necessary saving faith, God has not seen fit (blessed be his holy name he has not) to try us so far. There is no fundamental article of the Christian religion …
93183 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.23 (Matthew Henry)
… your faith staggered by it) that such people as the seducers before described and warned against should arise (and that early) in the Christian church, seeing …
93184 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.24 (Matthew Henry)
… the faithful word, as we have been (divinely) taught, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience, Titus 1:9, 3:9 .
93185 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.26 (Matthew Henry)
… holy faith, Jude 1:20. Observe, The way to hold fast our profession is to hold on in it. Having laid our foundation well in a sound faith, and a sincere upright heart …
93186 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.27 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith; the way to build up ourselves in our most holy faith is to continue instant in prayer, Romans 12:12. [2.] Our prayers are then most likely to prevail when …
93187 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.29 (Matthew Henry)
… lively faith of the blessed hope will help us to mortify our cursed lusts.
93188 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.31 (Matthew Henry)
… our faith, but hereafter (and surely it cannot now be long) it will be the object of our sense; whom we now believe in, him we shall shortly see, to our unspeakable …
93189 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1169.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the faithful in these churches: Grace and peace, holiness and comfort. Grace, that is, the good-will of God towards us and his good work in us; and peace, that is, the …
93190 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1169.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the faithful witness; he was from eternity a witness to all the counsels of God ( John 1:18 ), and he was in time a faithful witness to the revealed will of God, who …
93191 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1170.15 (Matthew Henry)
… in faith and in good works, rich in privileges, rich in bonds and deeds of gift, rich in hope, rich in reversion. Spiritual riches are usually the reward of great …
93192 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1170.16 (Matthew Henry)
… be faithful to Christ must expect to go through many tribulations; but Jesus Christ takes particular notice of all their troubles. In all their afflictions …
93193 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1170.18 (Matthew Henry)
… are faithful even unto death, who are faithful till they die, and who part with life itself in fidelity to Christ. The life so worn out in his service, or laid down …
93194 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1170.19 (Matthew Henry)
… his faithful servants; the second death shall have no power over those who are partakers of the first resurrection : the first death shall not hurt them, and …
93195 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1170.21 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith and manners of the church; and Christ, being resolved to fight against them by the sword of his word, takes the title of him that hath the sharp sword …
93196 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1170.24 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian faith, and by that means thou hast been kept faithful.” Our faith will have a great influence upon our faithfulness. Men who deny the faith of Christ …
93197 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1170.31 (Matthew Henry)
… most faithful, must yet expect to meet with that which will exercise their patience. (5.) Their growing fruitfulness: their last works were better than the first …
93198 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1170.32 (Matthew Henry)
2. A faithful reproof for what was amiss. This is not so directly charged upon the church itself as upon some wicked seducers who were among them; the church’s fault was that she connived too much at them.
93199 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1170.37 (Matthew Henry)
… his faithful servants: “ I will lay upon you no other burden; but that which you have already hold fast till I come, Revelation 2:24, 2:25. I will not overburden your …
93200 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1171.2 (Matthew Henry)
… them faithful and zealous. He has ministers to employ, and spiritual influences to communicate to his ministers for the good of his church. The Holy Spirit …