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13821 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 542.12 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforted himself with thoughts of God. Sometimes we find David in tears upon his bed ( Psalms 6:6 ), but thus he wiped away his tears. When sleep departs from …
13822 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 542.16 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comforts us while we have not yet attained what we are in the pursuit of. It is by the power of God (that is his right hand) that we are kept from falling. Now this …
13823 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 544.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort they have in communion with him. Iniquity must first be purged away ( Psalms 65:3 ) and then we are welcome to compass God’s altars, Psalms 65:4. Those …
13824 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 544.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of the everlasting covenant; there is enough for all, enough for each; it is ready, always ready; and all on free cost, without money and without price …
13825 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 544.11 (Matthew Henry)
… in comfort from him, wherever we are, not only in the solemn assemblies of his people, but also afar off upon the sea.
13826 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 544.16 (Matthew Henry)
… daily comforts; and, if therein we keep up our communion with God, the outgoings both of the morning and of the evening are thereby made truly to rejoice.
13827 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 544.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of it as the end of a thing is said to crown it. And his paths are said to drop fatness; for whatever fatness there is in the earth, which impregnates …
13828 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 545.4 (Matthew Henry)
… are comfortable and beneficial to his people, Psalms 66:6. When Israel came out of Egypt, he turned the sea into dry land before them, which encouraged them to …
13829 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 545.6 (Matthew Henry)
… new comforts. Non est vivere, sed valere, vita—It is not existence, but happiness, that deserves the name of life. But we are apt to stumble and fall, and are exposed …
13830 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 545.10 (Matthew Henry)
… their comforts afterwards may be the sweeter and that their affliction may thus yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness, which will make the poorest …
13831 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 545.13 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts, and therefore ought to be the matter of our praises.
13832 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 546.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of his salvation, cannot but desire and pray that they may be known to others, even among all nations. All upon earth are bound to walk in God’s way …
13833 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 546.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of men, who through Christ acquired a covenant-title to the fruits of it and had a sanctified use of it. Note, The success of the gospel sometimes …
13834 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 546.12 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts to us, and makes them comforts indeed; then we receive the increase of the earth as a mercy indeed when with it God, even our own God, gives us …
13835 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 547.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and joy of his own people ( Psalms 68:3 ): “ Let the righteous be glad, that are now in sorrow; let them rejoice before God in his favourable presence. God …
13836 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 547.8 (Matthew Henry)
… find comfort in him. (2.) When families are to be built up he is the founder of them: God sets the solitary in families, brings those into comfortable relations …
13837 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 547.9 (Matthew Henry)
… no comfort in that which they have got by fraud and injury. The best land will be a dry land to those that by their rebellion have forfeited the blessing of God …
13838 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 547.13 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortably for them both in the wilderness and in Canaan ( Psalms 68:9, 68:10 ): Thou didst send a plentiful rain and hast prepared of thy goodness for the …
13839 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 547.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of particular believers after their despondencies.
13840 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 547.21 (Matthew Henry)
… live comfortably, and are daily loaded with benefits. So many, so weighty, are the gifts of God’s bounty to us that he may be truly said to load us with them; he pours …