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13041 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 160.12 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of the life that now is as far as it is for God’s glory. [2.] It will be our righteousness. Could we perfectly fulfil but that one command of loving God …
13042 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 162.6 (Matthew Henry)
… heavenly comforts is given to those that hunger and thirst after righteousness, Matthew 5:6. To the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. It is said of the …
13043 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 162.10 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of human life. In their fathers’ land they had bread enough; it was corn land, a land of wheat and barley, where, with the common care and labour of the …
13044 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 162.13 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfortable enjoyments we must take occasion to thank God for our comfortable settlements; and I know not but we of this nation have as much reason as …
13045 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 165.6 (Matthew Henry)
… greatest comfort and sweetness when we see them coming from heaven, the immediate gifts of divine Providence. (2.) The closer dependence we have upon God the …
13046 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 165.7 (Matthew Henry)
… spiritual comforts, which should come as the latter and former, rain, Hosea 6:3. And the earth thus watered produced, 1. Fruits for the service of man, corn and wine …
13047 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 166.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort which they must take with them into their common employments; and, being thus strengthened in soul, whatever they did they must do it heartily …
13048 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 166.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of your riches. They must give the Levites their tithes and offerings, settled on them by the law, because they had no other maintenance.
13049 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 166.13 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to him to foresee that Israel would be better in the next reign than they had been in his.
13050 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 168.12 (Matthew Henry)
… . The comfortable cheerful using of what God has given us, with temperance and sobriety, is really the honouring of God with it. Contentment, holy joy, and thankfulness …
13051 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 168.13 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortably as they had done in months past, and therefore they were to countenance them, and help to make them easy by inviting them to this entertainment …
13052 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 169.5 (Matthew Henry)
… true comfort, Isaiah 58:10, 58:11 .
13053 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 169.8 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts and enjoyments to his praise and under the direction of his law, as we have them all by his gift.
13054 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 170.3 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, let us keep the feast in a holy conversation, free from the leaven of malice towards our brethren and hypocrisy towards God, and with the unleavened …
13055 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 170.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , by comforting the mourners and supplying the necessitous, that even the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow may rejoice with us. See Job 29:13. 3. We must rejoice …
13056 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 172.4 (Matthew Henry)
II. Care is likewise taken that they want not any of the comforts and conveniences of this life. Though God, who is a Spirit, is their inheritance, it does not therefore follow that they must live upon the air; no,
13057 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 172.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable support of those that preside in such assemblies. (1.) The priests who in their courses served at the altar had their share of the sacrifices …
13058 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 172.11 (Matthew Henry)
… their comfort. Having these prophets, (1.) They need not use divinations, nor consult with familiar spirits, for they might enquire of God’s prophets even concerning …
13059 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 174.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of that which God had blessed him with, till, by enjoying it for some time, he become less fond of it, and consequently less disturbed in the war by …
13060 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 174.14 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort, while our own appetites and passions, of which we are so indulgent, are really enemies to our welfare. The intent of many of the divine precepts …