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14161 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 646.1 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortably, though they are low in the world, work hard and fare hard, though they have but each of them a morsel, and that a dry morsel. There may be peace …
14162 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 646.6 (Matthew Henry)
… are comforts to their parents in the unpleasant days of their old age.
14163 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 646.21 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts are, so that we are often not only disappointed in them, but that proves the greatest cross in which we promised ourselves most satisfaction …
14164 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 646.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of outward enjoyments and particularly that of pleasant conversation. It is a great mercy that God gives us leave to be cheerful and cause to …
14165 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 646.25 (Matthew Henry)
… mutual comfort to bear them up under it, and strive to make it as easy as they can, the mother to mollify the father’s anger, the father to alleviate the mother’s …
14166 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 647.6 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort, to cool their tongue, which is their snare and will be their tormentor.
14167 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 647.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and benefit of it; they go out of themselves, retire from the world, live above, dwell in God and God in them, and so they are safe, they think themselves …
14168 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 647.19 (Matthew Henry)
… . Our comfort depends very much upon the testimony of our own consciences, for us or against us. The belly is here put for the conscience, as Proverbs 20:27. Now …
14169 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 647.20 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it, by a prudent gentle tongue, and saved the lives of others by a seasonable testimony or intercession for them. And, if by our words we must be …
14170 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 647.21 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort in this life, but will forward him in the way to heaven. 2. God is to be acknowledged in it with thankfulness; it is a token of his favour, and a happy pledge …
14171 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 647.24 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort in a true friend. A brother indeed is born for adversity, as he had said, Proverbs 17:17. In our troubles we expect comfort and relief from our relations …
14172 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 648.1 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of a poor man, and make him more excellent than his neighbour, though his poverty may expose him to contempt and may dispirit him. Let him be honest …
14173 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 648.7 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of it in his own soul and shall be happy here and for ever.
14174 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 648.11 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortable, and therefore it concerns them to be very careful that they never frighten a good man from doing well with their frowns, nor ever give countenance …
14175 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 648.12 (Matthew Henry)
… greatest comfort. It is as it proves. What greater temporal comfort can a man have than a good wife and good children? Yet, 1. A foolish son is a great affliction …
14176 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 648.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and credit of a man’s life and the welfare of his family, is a greater token of God’s favour, and about which the divine providence is in a more especial …
14177 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 648.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it and to be as well pleased as ever any usurer was when he had let out a sum of money into good hands. 2. A very rich recompence shall be made for it …
14178 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 648.21 (Matthew Henry)
… . What comfort does this speak to all God’s people, that all God’s purposes, which we are sure are right and good, shall be accomplished in due time!
14179 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 648.23 (Matthew Henry)
… those comforts which are satisfying, and shall have a constant contentment and complacency in them. It is a satisfaction which will abide, whereas all the …
14180 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 649.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it, for it is his rejoicing. He is not liable to those uneasinesses, either in contriving what he shall do or reflecting on what he has done, which …