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97821 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1090.5 (Matthew Henry)
… 11:7-11:10. He had proved at large, in his former epistle to them, the lawfulness of ministers’ receiving maintenance from the people, and the duty of the people …
97822 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1090.7 (Matthew Henry)
Here we have a further excuse that the apostle makes for what he was about to say in his own vindication. 1. He would not have them think he was guilty of folly …
97823 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1091.3 (Matthew Henry)
… 2:7 ), signifying to us that by Christ we are restored to all the joys and honours we lost by sin, yea, to much better. The apostle does not mention what he saw in the …
97824 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1091.5 (Matthew Henry)
… 12:7. We are much in the dark what this was, whether some great trouble or some great temptation. Some think it was an acute bodily pain or sickness; others think …
97825 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1091.6 (Matthew Henry)
… 12:7. Paul himself knew he had not yet attained, neither was already perfect; and yet he was in danger of being lifted up with pride. If God love us, he will hide pride …
97826 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1091.7 (Matthew Henry)
3. The apostle prayed earnestly to God for the removal of this sore grievance. Note, Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are …
97827 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1091.12 (Matthew Henry)
… private. 7. He was grieved at the apprehension that he should find scandalous sins among them not duly repented of. This, he tells them, would be the cause of great …
97828 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1092.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 13:7-13:10 ), and concludes his epistle with a valediction and a benediction, 2 Corinthians 13:11-13:14 .
97829 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1092.6 (Matthew Henry)
… 13:7. This is the most desirable thing we can ask of God, both for ourselves and for our friends, to be kept from sin, that we and they may do no evil; and it is most needful …
97830 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1092.7 (Matthew Henry)
… 13:7. Note, (1.) The great desire of faithful ministers of the gospel is that the gospel they preach may be honoured, however their persons may be vilified. (2.) The …
97831 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1093.7 (Matthew Henry)
Here the apostle comes to the body of the epistle; and he begins it with a more general reproof of these churches for their unsteadiness in the faith, which he afterwards, in some following parts of it, enlarges more upon. Here we may observe,
97832 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.7 (Matthew Henry)
2. That in his practice he firmly adhered to the doctrine which he had preached. Paul was a man of resolution, and would adhere to his principles; and therefore …
97833 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.9 (Matthew Henry)
… 2:7-2:10. They were not only satisfied with his doctrine, but they saw a divine power attending him, both in preaching it and in working miracles for the confirmation …
97834 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.15 (Matthew Henry)
… Romans 7:4, 7:6 ), such a life as would be more agreeable and acceptable to God than his observance of the Mosaic law could now be, that is, a life of faith in Christ …
97835 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.7 (Matthew Henry)
4. He puts them in mind that they had had ministers among them (and particularly himself) who came with a divine seal and commission; for they had ministered …
97836 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.9 (Matthew Henry)
… 3:7 ), not according to the flesh, but according to the promise; and, consequently, that they are justified in the same way that he was. Abraham was justified by faith …
97837 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.15 (Matthew Henry)
… 8:7, 8:8. And though the law, considered as the law of nature, is always in force, and still continues to be of use to convince men of sin and to restrain them from it …
97838 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1096.4 (Matthew Henry)
… -4:7. When the fulness of time had come, the time appointed of the Father, when he would put an end to the legal dispensation, and set up another and a better in the …
97839 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1096.7 (Matthew Henry)
In these verses the apostle puts them in mind of what they were before their conversion to the faith of Christ, and what a blessed change their conversion …