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13681 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 509.4 (Matthew Henry)
… more comfort to the godly, than his holiness. It is a good sign that we are in some measure partakers of his holiness if we can heartily rejoice and give thanks …
13682 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 509.12 (Matthew Henry)
… ; his comforts returned; and he was girded with gladness: joy was made his ornament, was made his strength, and seemed to cleave to him, as the girdle cleaves to …
13683 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 510.3 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts the soul in the expectation of them. He prays, 1. That God would deliver him ( Psalms 31:1 ), that his life might be preserved from the malice of his enemies …
13684 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 510.6 (Matthew Henry)
… . He comforted himself with his hope in God, and made himself, not only easy, but cheerful, with it, Psalms 31:7. Having relied on God’s mercy, he will be glad and rejoice …
13685 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 510.10 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort in God, because they could not drive him from his confidence in God. Two things he comforted himself with in his straits, and he went to God and pleaded …
13686 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 510.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of his favour in the mean time ( Psalms 31:16 ): “ Make they face to shine upon thy servant; let me have the comfortable tokens and evidences of thy favour …
13687 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 510.14 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of it. If what is laid up for us in the treasures of the everlasting covenant be not wrought for us, it is our own fault, because we do not believe. But …
13688 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 510.15 (Matthew Henry)
… . His comforts shall keep them easy and cheerful; his sanctuary, where they have communion with him, shelters then from the fiery darts of terror and temptation …
13689 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 511.1 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, of the latter for our quickening, when we sing this psalm. Grotius thinks it was designed to be sung on the day of atonement.
13690 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 511.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the pardon of their sins must take shame to themselves by a penitent confession of them. We must confess the fact of sin, and be particular in …
13691 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 511.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the pardon in my own conscience; immediately I found rest to my soul.” Note, God is more ready to pardon sin, upon our repentance, than we are to repent …
13692 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 511.10 (Matthew Henry)
David is here improving the experience he had had of the comfort of pardoning mercy.
13693 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 511.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of our remission, we must fly to the grace of God to be preserved from returning to folly again, and having our hearts again hardened through the …
13694 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 511.12 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort those that were converted, Psalms 51:12, 51:13. When Solomon became a penitent he immediately became a preacher, Ecclesiastes 1:1. Those are best able …
13695 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 511.14 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable life we can live in this world. This is that present bliss which the upright in heart, and they are only, are entitled to and qualified for.
13696 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 512.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and benefit of it, not according as we merit from thee, but according as we hope in thee, that is, according to the promise which thou hast in thy word …
13697 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 513.4 (Matthew Henry)
… most comfort in God’s mercies, both to others and to themselves, that are humble, and have the least confidence in their own merit and sufficiency. It pleased …
13698 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 513.6 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforted them; witness Hannah, who, when she had prayed, went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad. When we look to the world we are darkened …
13699 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 513.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it, 1 Peter 2:3. He is good, for he makes all those that trust in him truly blessed; let us therefore be so convinced of his goodness as thereby to be …
13700 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 513.9 (Matthew Henry)
… further comforts they desire they shall have, as far as Infinite Wisdom sees good, and what they want in one thing shall be made up in another. What God denies …