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98001 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.87 (Matthew Henry)
… , -2Maccabees 7:1-7:42 2. They endured trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, and bonds and imprisonment, Hebrews 11:36. They were persecuted in their reputation …
98002 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.7 (Matthew Henry)
3. This race must be run with patience and perseverance. There will be need of patience to encounter the difficulties that lie in our way, of perseverance to …
98003 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1146.22 (Matthew Henry)
… , 12:7 ): Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Observe, (1.) The best of God’s children need chastisement. They have their …
98004 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.7 (Matthew Henry)
2. The reason of the duty: As being yourselves in the body; not only in the body natural, and so liable to the like sufferings, and you should sympathize with them …
98005 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.11 (Matthew Henry)
1. To those that are dead: Remember those that have had the rule over you, Hebrews 13:7. Here observe,
98006 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1147.25 (Matthew Henry)
… 5:7 ), and it follows, therefore let us keep the feast. The Lord’s supper is the feast of the gospel passover.
98007 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.7 (Matthew Henry)
I. The suffering state of Christians in this world is represented, and that in a very instructive manner, if we attend to what is plainly and necessarily implied …
98008 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.13 (Matthew Henry)
… 1:7. Such a distrustful, shifting, unsettled person is not likely to value a favour from God as he should do, and therefore cannot expect to receive it. In asking …
98009 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1148.27 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Romans 7:9 ): “ I was alive without the law; that is, I took all to be right with me, and thought myself not only clean, but, compared with the generality of the world, beautiful …
98010 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.5 (Matthew Henry)
… 2:7. Consider how commonly riches are the incentives of vice and mischief, of blasphemy and persecution: consider how many calamities you yourselves sustain …
98011 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.7 (Matthew Henry)
I. We have the law that is to guide us in all our regards to men set down in general. If you fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour …
98012 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1149.22 (Matthew Henry)
7. And now, upon the whole matter, the apostle draws this conclusion, As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also, James 2:26. These …
98013 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1150.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , Matthew 7:1, 7:2. Those who are curious to spy out the faults of others, and arrogant in passing censures upon them, may expect that God will be as extreme in marking …
98014 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1150.6 (Matthew Henry)
… 3:7, 3:8. As if the apostle had said, “Lions, and the most savage beasts, as well as horses and camels, and creatures of the greatest strength, have been tamed and governed …
98015 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1150.7 (Matthew Henry)
V. We are taught to think of the use we make of our tongues in religion and in the service of God, and by such a consideration to keep it from cursing, censuring …
98016 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1150.11 (Matthew Henry)
… censurers. 7. That wisdom which is from above is without hypocrisy. It has no disguises nor deceits. It cannot fall in with those managements which the world …
98017 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1151.6 (Matthew Henry)
… 4:7. Christians should forsake the friendship of the world, and watch against that envy and pride which they see prevailing in natural men, and should by grace …
98018 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1151.7 (Matthew Henry)
V. We are directed how to act towards God, in our becoming submissive to him, James 4:8-4:10. 1. Draw nigh to God. The heart that has rebelled must be brought to the foot …
98019 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1151.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , Matthew 7:1. The sum and substance of both is that men should love one another. A detracting tongue therefore condemns the law of God, and the commandment of …
98020 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1152.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 5:7-5:11. The sin of swearing is cautioned against, James 5:12. We are directed how to act, both under affliction and in prosperity, James 5:13. Prayer for the sick …