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12621 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1019.2 (Matthew Henry)
… be comforted at Christ’s care for his disciples. Although there were so many, and such great fishes, yet they lost none, nor damaged their net. The net of the gospel …
12622 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1020.3 (Matthew Henry)
… should comfort and encourage us. May our expectation of it be stedfast and joyful, giving diligence to be found of him blameless.
12623 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1021.2 (Matthew Henry)
… his comforts; and the rough blasts of that blessed wind, prepare the soul for its soft and gentle gales. There was an appearance of something like flaming fire …
12624 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1023.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comforts of Christians. There were evident fruits of Christ’s grace in all they said and did. They were dead to this world. This was a great evidence of the …
12625 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1024.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of life, but that God may be honoured with the services of our life. It is not for the preachers of Christ’s gospel to retire into corners, as long …
12626 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1026.2 (Matthew Henry)
… him comfort, and on those he was concerned with, by giving him favour in their eyes. Stephen reminds the Jews of their mean beginning as a check to priding themselves …
12627 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1026.4 (Matthew Henry)
… speak comfortably to them. He appeared to Moses in a flame of fire, yet the bush was not consumed; which represented the state of Israel in Egypt, where, though …
12628 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1026.7 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort ourselves, living and dying. And if this has been our care while we live, it will be our comfort when we die. Here is a prayer for his persecutors. Though …
12629 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1028.4 (Matthew Henry)
… much comfort from the Holy Ghost, in the hope and peace of the gospel, and others were won over to them. They lived upon the comfort of the Holy Ghost, not only in …
12630 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1031.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the Comforter comes, whom the Father will send, sooner or later, he will let them know what a blessed change is wrought.
12631 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1032.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts and encouragements we meet with in the power of godliness, and the fuller our hearts are of them, the better prepared we are to face difficulties …
12632 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1034.4 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to hear that carnal ordinances were no longer imposed on them, which perplexed the conscience, but could not purify or pacify it; and that those who …
12633 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1035.6 (Matthew Henry)
… become comforters of their brethren.
12634 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1038.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts, to be delusion. Of such it may properly be inquired, "Unto what, then, were ye baptized?" for they evidently know not the meaning of that outward sign …
12635 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1039.5 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort. It is the business of our life to provide for a joyful death. Believing that this was the last time they should see him, he appeals concerning his …
12636 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1039.6 (Matthew Henry)
… their comfortable passage through it. It might seem a hard saying, therefore Paul adds to it a saying of their Master’s, which he would have them always remember …
12637 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1041.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the pardon of thy sins in and through Jesus Christ, and lay hold on his righteousness for that purpose; and receive power against sin, for the …
12638 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1043.3 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortable, in worshipping God, to look to him as the God of our fathers, and to set up no other rule of faith or practice but the Scriptures. This shows there …
12639 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1046.4 (Matthew Henry)
… . He comforts them with the same comforts wherewith he himself was comforted. God is ever faithful, therefore let all who have an interest in his promises be …
12640 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1046.5 (Matthew Henry)
… . The comfort of God’s promises can only be ours by believing dependence on him, to fulfil his word to us; and the salvation he reveals must be waited for in use …