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97921 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1126.7 (Matthew Henry)
(1.) The truth he lays down is that godliness with contentment is great gain. Some read it, godliness with a competency; that is, if a man have but a little in this …
97922 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1126.8 (Matthew Henry)
… 6:7. This is a reason why we should be content with a little. [1.] Because we can challenge nothing as a debt that is due to us, for we came naked into the world. Whatever …
97923 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1126.22 (Matthew Henry)
… 2:7. (4.) Here is a lesson for ministers in the charge given to Timothy: Keep that which is committed to thy trust. Every minister is a trustee, and it is a treasure …
97924 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1127.5 (Matthew Henry)
… 1:7. It was through base fear that the evil servant buried his talent, and did not trade with it, Matthew 25:25. Now God hath therefore armed us against the spirit …
97925 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1127.7 (Matthew Henry)
1. The gospel of Christ is what we have none of us reason to be ashamed of. We must not be ashamed of those who are suffering for the gospel of Christ. Timothy must …
97926 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1127.15 (Matthew Henry)
… need. 7. The best thing we can seek, either for ourselves or our friends, is that the Lord will grant to them that they may find mercy of the Lord in that day, when …
97927 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1128.7 (Matthew Henry)
… 5:7. If we would be partakers of the fruits, we must labour; if we would gain the prize, we must run the race. And, further, we must first labour as the husbandman does …
97928 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1128.8 (Matthew Henry)
… 2:7. Here, 1. Paul exhorts Timothy to consider those thing about which he admonished him. Timothy must be reminded to use his considering faculties about the …
97929 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1128.20 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Matthew 7:23 ), Depart from me, I never knew you, you workers of iniquity. Observe, (1.) Whatever errors are introduced into the church, the foundation of God standeth …
97930 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1129.4 (Matthew Henry)
… under. 7. The times are perilous when men are false accusers one of another, diaboloi — devils one to another, having no regard to the good name of others, or to the …
97931 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1129.5 (Matthew Henry)
… 3:7. In one sense we must all be ever learning, that is, growing in knowledge, following on to know the Lord, pressing forward; but these were sceptics, giddy and …
97932 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1129.7 (Matthew Henry)
I. Sets before him his own example, which Timothy had been an eye-witness of, having long attended Paul ( 2 Timothy 3:10 ): Thou hast fully known my doctrine. The more …
97933 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1130.7 (Matthew Henry)
4. He must direct, encourage, and quicken those who began well. “ Exhort them (persuade them to hold on, and endure to the end) and this with all long—suffering and …
97934 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1130.10 (Matthew Henry)
7. He must remember his office, and discharge its duties: Do the work of an evangelist. The office of the evangelist was, as the apostles’ deputies, to water the …
97935 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1130.19 (Matthew Henry)
… 4:7 ): I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc. He did not fear death, because he had the testimony of his conscience that by the grace of God he had …
97936 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1130.28 (Matthew Henry)
… , Acts 7:59. ”Lord Jesus, receive that spirit which thou hast been with while it was united to the body; do not now leave it in its separate state.” Grace be with you …
97937 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.7 (Matthew Henry)
Here is the end expressed,
97938 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.16 (Matthew Henry)
… 1:7 ): For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God. Those before termed presbyters, or elders, are in this verse styled bishops; and such they were, having …
97939 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.19 (Matthew Henry)
… 4:7 ), and not shunned to declare the whole counsel of God; there was his faithfulness, Acts 20:27 .
97940 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.28 (Matthew Henry)
… 4:7; Refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather to godliness. Fancies and devices of men in the worship of God are contrary to truth and …