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13061 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 175.12 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort; if one had the honour to be the beloved wife, it often proved that the other had the honour to be the mother of the first-born.
13062 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 177.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of human life, and an evidence of a careless slothful temper of mind. 3. Purity from the pollutions of sin; if there must be this care taken to preserve …
13063 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 177.12 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable difference between the land of Israel and other lands, and would choose it to be his rest for ever. Note, Proselytes and converts to the truth …
13064 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 178.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and subsistence of others as much as our own advantage. That creditor who cares not though his debtor and his family starve, nor is at all concerned …
13065 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 179.3 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable maintenance, 1 Corinthians 9:9, 9:10, and 1 Timothy 5:17, 5:18. It teaches us in the letter of it to make much of the brute-creatures that serve us, and …
13066 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 179.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the conjugal relation; this is a thing which cannot be forced, and therefore the relation should not be forced without it. (2.) Yet he shall be publicly …
13067 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 180.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of our natural life, and therefore to serve and honour him with them. 2. To deny ourselves. What is first ripe we are most fond of; those that are nice …
13068 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 180.4 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts are doubly sweet to us when we see them flowing from the fountain of the promise.
13069 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 180.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , The comfort we have in particular enjoyments should lead us to be thankful for our share in public peace and plenty; and with present mercies we should bless …
13070 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 180.8 (Matthew Henry)
… most comfortable use we can of it, yet still tracing the streams to the fountain of all comfort and consolation.
13071 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 180.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of our enjoyments, when God has thus had his dues out of them. This is a commandment which must not be transgressed, no, not with an excuse of its being …
13072 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 180.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , what comfort can we take in it, unless therewith God, even our own God, gives us his blessing ? Psalms 67:6 .
13073 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 181.4 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort, and assurance of success and settlement, otherwise it were well for thee not to go in at all. Write it as the conditions of thy entry, and own that …
13074 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 181.5 (Matthew Henry)
… any comfort upon the law, being conscious to ourselves of the violation of it, if it were not for the great sacrifice by which atonement is made for sin; and the …
13075 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 181.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of the gospel; must not only allure people to their duty with the promises of a blessing, but awe them to it with the threatenings of a curse. 4. The …
13076 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 182.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of their condition. This blessing should attend them in their journeys, going out and coming in, Deuteronomy 28:6. Their persons should be protected …
13077 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 182.12 (Matthew Henry)
… true comfort in them, for the wrath of God mixes itself with them, and he is so far from having any security of the continuance of them that, if his eyes be open …
13078 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 182.13 (Matthew Henry)
… dearest comforts, which they took most pleasure in, and promised themselves most from, should be the entertainment and triumph of their enemies. As they had …
13079 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 182.18 (Matthew Henry)
… more comfortable, so nothing more awful, than this, that he with whom we have to do is Jehovah, a being infinitely perfect and blessed, and the author of all being …
13080 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 183.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of the covenant.