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12561 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 947.2 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort that he is with us.
12562 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 948.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable sense of pardoning mercy, does much to dispose our hearts to forgive our brethren. We are not to suppose that God actually forgives men, and …
12563 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 949.5 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortable; yet this promise was as much a trial of the young man’s faith, as the precept was of his charity and contempt of the world. It is required of …
12564 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 949.6 (Matthew Henry)
… or comforts, for his sake and the gospel, would be recompensed at last. May God give us faith to rest our hope on this his promise; then we shall be ready for every …
12565 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 950.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comfort them. A believing view of our once crucified and now glorified Redeemer, is good to humble a proud, self-justifying disposition. When we consider …
12566 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 950.4 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort the disciples. Some cannot have comforts but they turn them to a wrong purpose. Pride is a sin that most easily besets us; it is sinful ambition to …
12567 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 952.2 (Matthew Henry)
… present comfort and everlasting happiness, in the salvation of his Son Jesus Christ. The guests first invited were the Jews. When the prophets of the Old Testament …
12568 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 954.3 (Matthew Henry)
… is comforting that some shall endure even to the end. Our Lord foretells the preaching of the gospel in all the world. The end of the world shall not be till the …
12569 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 957.8 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort on the abundant testimonies given to the character of Jesus; and, seeking to give no just cause of offence, we may leave it to the Lord to clear our …
12570 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 958.2 (Matthew Henry)
… be comforted under their present sorrows. Christ knows where his disciples dwell, and will visit them. Even to those at a distance from the plenty of the means …
12571 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 959.2 (Matthew Henry)
… his comforts. We use the ordinances, word, and sacraments without profit and comfort, for the most part, because we have not of that Divine light within us; and …
12572 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 959.3 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort in reference to the malignant designs of the evil angels; but much more does it comfort us, to have the indwelling of God the Holy Spirit in our …
12573 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 961.6 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort to all true Christians, that they are dearer to Christ than mother, brother, or sister as such, merely as relations in the flesh would have been …
12574 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 963.3 (Matthew Henry)
… be comforted, and he has power to command comfort to troubled spirits. The more simply we depend on Him, and expect great things from him, the more we shall find …
12575 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 963.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of his Spirit, for the prayers of our ministers and Christian friends, when death is in the house, as when sickness is there? Faith is the only remedy …
12576 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 964.6 (Matthew Henry)
… not comforted: we may have Christ for us, yet wind and tide against us; but it is a comfort to Christ’s disciples in a storm, that their Master is in the heavenly …
12577 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 967.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts leave it. Jesus explained to the disciples the prophecy about Elias. This was very suitable to the ill usage of John Baptist.
12578 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 968.2 (Matthew Henry)
… be comforts and helps for each other. The bond which God has tied, is not to be lightly untied. Let those who are for putting away their wives consider what would …
12579 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 972.4 (Matthew Henry)
… . How comfortable is this to poor repenting sinners, that the blood of Christ is shed for many! If for many, why not for me? It was a sign of the conveyance of the benefits …
12580 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 973.5 (Matthew Henry)
… speaks comfort to all believing Christians, for it signified the laying open a new and living way into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. The confidence with …