Search for: The Spirit of Christ—true faith
981 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.36 (Matthew Henry)
… the journeys, removals, and settlements, of his faithful ministers as he pleases. The stars are in the right hand of Christ, to shine where he sets them. The gospel …
982 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1063.23 (Matthew Henry)
… the benediction, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you —the good-will of Christ towards you, the good work of Christ in you. This will be the best preservative …
983 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1065.14 (Matthew Henry)
… own Spirit? Very few have known any thing of the mind of God by a natural power. But, adds the apostle, we have the mind of Christ; and the mind of Christ is the mind …
984 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1066.6 (Matthew Henry)
… on the same design. Planters and waterers are but fellow-labourers in the same work. Note, All the faithful ministers of Christ are one in the great business …
985 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1066.12 (Matthew Henry)
… be Christ’s. And Christ is God’s. He is the Christ of God, anointed of God, and commissioned by him, to bear the office of a Mediator, and to act therein for the purposes …
986 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the influence, nor by the power, of the Spirit of God, who disowned and blasphemed Christ: for the Spirit of God bore uncontrollable witness to Christ by …
987 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1075.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the way of their duty, and own and profess the truths of Christ, whatever was the difficulty or danger.— To another the gift of healing, by the same Spirit; that …
988 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1076.2 (Matthew Henry)
… faith, the faith of miracles, or the faith by which persons were enabled to work miracles: Had I all faith (the utmost degree of this kind of faith), that I …
989 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1078.15 (Matthew Henry)
… in Christ; for the scope of the apostle’s argument restrains the general meaning. Christ rose as the first-fruits; therefore those that are Christ’s ( 1 Corinthians …
990 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1079.9 (Matthew Henry)
… to the custom of the Roman Circus, and the doors of it, at which the charioteers were to enter, as their antagonists did at the opposite doors. True courage is …
991 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1080.16 (Matthew Henry)
… ; and the comforts of the Spirit are an earnest of everlasting joy. Note, The veracity of God, the mediation of Christ, and the operation of the Spirit, are all engaged …
992 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1084.7 (Matthew Henry)
… from the body. True Christians, if they duly considered the prospect faith gives them of another world, and the good reasons of their hope of blessedness after …
993 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.6 (Matthew Henry)
… by the flesh; they had embraced the doctrine of the gospel, by means of which they had received the Spirit, and wherein only the true way of justification is …
994 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1098.13 (Matthew Henry)
… other faithful professors of the doctrine of Christ, lay open to. And, 3. Another part of their character was that they were men of a party spirit, and who had no …
995 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1098.17 (Matthew Henry)
… to the rule of the gospel, or of the new creature, even to all the Israel of God, intimating that those only are the true Israel of God who walk according to this …
996 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.2 (Matthew Henry)
… (as the other apostles were) by Christ himself to the work. Every faithful minister of Christ (though his call and office are not of so extraordinary a nature …
997 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1100.9 (Matthew Henry)
… Jesus Christ, by the help of the Spirit. The Ephesians, upon their conversion, having such an access to God, as well as the Jews, and by the same Spirit, the apostle …
998 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1102.8 (Matthew Henry)
… . One faith, that is, the gospel, containing the doctrine of the Christian faith: or, it is the same grace of faith (faith in Christ) whereby all Christians are saved …
999 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1102.10 (Matthew Henry)
… in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, so making a perfect man, and the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. The apostle further …
1000 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1103.6 (Matthew Henry)
… forth the fruits of the Spirit, Ephesians 5:9. This is expected from the children of light, that, being illuminated, they be also sanctified by the Spirit, and …