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13261 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 295.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of children that do their duty to them. Satan pretends to the heart of man, but by this it appears that he is only a pretender, that he would be content …
13262 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 296.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of communion with God, and now he led them into the comfortable use of the good things of this life. This pleasant posture of Israel’s affairs …
13263 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 297.8 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort it is to those that wish well to the Israel of God to see religion and wisdom kept up in families from one generation to another, especially in …
13264 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 298.8 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforted in his work. Perhaps sometimes the great care, expense, and fatigue of it, made him ready to wish he had never begun it; but this would help him through …
13265 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 299.2 (Matthew Henry)
… were comfortable. The surest foundations of lasting prosperity are those which are laid in an early piety, Matthew 6:33. 1. He built a house for himself ( 1 Kings …
13266 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 300.22 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort to believing petitioners.
13267 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 300.34 (Matthew Henry)
… be comfort enough when we are absent from each other. The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers ( 1 Kings 8:57 ); let him not leave us, let him be to us to day …
13268 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 301.7 (Matthew Henry)
… more comfortably be ours, Matthew 6:33. Solomon built a church first and then he was enabled to build houses, and cities, and walls. Those consult not their own …
13269 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 301.9 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of it. Whatever pains we take, for the support of religion, to the glory of God and the edification of others, we ourselves are likely to have the advantage …
13270 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 301.10 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of life, our own and others’; such were the productions of Canaan. Solomon got much by his merchandise, but, it should seem, David got much more by his …
13271 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 302.7 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts if we have reason to hope they come from God’s delight in us. It was his pleasure concerning thee (so it may be read) to set thee on the throne, not for …
13272 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 302.12 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of it, such as it was. That is good that does us good.
13273 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 303.10 (Matthew Henry)
… . What comfort can a man take in leaving children and an estate behind him if he do not leave a blessing behind him? Yet, if judgments be coming, it is a favour to …
13274 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 303.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and credit of it; the guilt may be taken away, and yet not the reproach.
13275 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 303.18 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort to her.
13276 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 306.6 (Matthew Henry)
… for comfort, and yet expect their ministers, because they are good men, should speak peace and comfort to them, greatly wrong both themselves and their ministers …
13277 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 306.22 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts.
13278 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 307.6 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, that the reign of the good kings was generally long, but that of the bad kings short, the consideration of which will make the state of God’s church …
13279 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 307.12 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable note, That those may be found honest and upright with God, and be accepted of him, who yet, in some instances, come short of doing the good they might …
13280 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 309.4 (Matthew Henry)
… live comfortably upon coarser fare and would be glad of our leavings. Elijah had but one meal brought him at a time, every morning and every evening, to teach …