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13961 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 590.3 (Matthew Henry)

… most comfortable to do it in concert with the upright, who will heartily join in it. Private meetings for devotion should be kept up as well as more public and …

13962 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 591.1 (Matthew Henry)

… , but comfort and encourage ourselves and one another with the privileges and comforts here secured to the holy.

13963 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 591.9 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfort of to himself, it endures for ever. Grace is better than gold, for it will outlast it. He shall have wealth and riches, and yet shall keep up his religion …

13964 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 591.10 (Matthew Henry)

… and comforted under their troubles; their spirits shall be lightsome when their outward condition is clouded. Sat lucis intus—There is light enough within …

13965 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 591.15 (Matthew Henry)

… his comfort; for he shall not be afraid; his heart is established, Psalms 112:7, 112:8. This is a part both of the character and of the comfort of good people. It is …

13966 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 592.5 (Matthew Henry)

… a comfort to us that they do praise him, and that they praise him better than we can. (2.) From whom he ought to have praise. [1.] From all ages ( Psalms 113:2 ) -- from this time …

13967 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 592.10 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfort of a family must take the care of it; bearing children and guiding the house are put together, 1 Timothy 5:14. When God sets the barren in a family he …

13968 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 594.3 (Matthew Henry)

… and comfort of it, but that thy mercy and truth may have the glory of it.” This must be our highest and ultimate end in our prayers, and therefore it is made the first …

13969 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 594.10 (Matthew Henry)

… our comforts are derived from God’s thoughts to us-ward; he has been mindful of us, though we have forgotten him. Let this engage us to trust in him, that we have …

13970 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 594.11 (Matthew Henry)

… the comforts of this life. See Psalms 30:9, 88:10. 3. Therefore it concerns us to praise him ( Psalms 115:18 ): “ But we, we that are alive, will bless the Lord; we and those …

13971 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 595.7 (Matthew Henry)

… God comforts those that are cast down, looses the mourners’ sackcloth and girds them with gladness, then he delivers their eyes from tears, which yet will not …

13972 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 595.9 (Matthew Henry)

… our comfort and refreshment, and encouraged us to come to him for the benefit of it, at all times, upon all occasions; let us therefore be satisfied with that …

13973 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 595.18 (Matthew Henry)

… had comforted himself with in the depth of his distress and danger; and, the event having confirmed it, he comforts others with it who might be in like manner …

13974 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 596.4 (Matthew Henry)

… most comfortably to us; and the apostle, where he quotes this psalm, takes notice of these as the two great things for which the Gentiles should glorify God …

13975 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 597.2 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfort of it. The more our hearts are impressed with a sense of God’s goodness the more they will be enlarged in all manner of obedience. In these verses …

13976 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 597.5 (Matthew Henry)

… our comfort in him; and, if Go had not upheld us by his grace, his thrusts would have been fatal to us. (2.) By the afflictions which God laid upon him ( Psalms 118:18 ): The …

13977 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 597.7 (Matthew Henry)

… more comfortable because he was brought to it out of distress, Psalms 4:1. (2.) God baffled the designs of his enemies against him: They are quenched as the fire …

13978 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 597.9 (Matthew Henry)

… his comfort, his victory, and his life. First, Of his comfort ( Psalms 118:15 ): The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous, and in …

13979 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.2 (Matthew Henry)

… to comfort and encourage ourselves and one another, so many are the sweet experiences of one that lived such a life. Here is something or other to suit the case …

13980 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.3 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfort of them themselves to another world and leave the knowledge and profession of them to those who shall come after them in this world. Those who …