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14781 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 819.29 (Matthew Henry)
… unspeakable comfort to all true penitents that the covenant of grace is so well ordered in all things that every transgression in the covenant does not …
14782 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 819.30 (Matthew Henry)
… your comfort; and it is one of the most precious promises of the new covenant which God has made with us that all shall know him from the least to the greatest …
14783 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 820.5 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortably and contentedly, though he cannot bear a part, and make a figure, as formerly. A kingdom may stand firmly and safely, though it do not stand so …
14784 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 820.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , for comfort to the saints, so are his threatenings, for terror to the wicked. As sure as God lives and is happy (I may add, and as long), so sure, so long, shall impenitent …
14785 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 821.3 (Matthew Henry)
… their comforts as when the teeth are set on edge. But they suggest it as unreasonable that the children should smart for the fathers’ folly and feel the pain …
14786 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 821.9 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts of it; it is as absurd to quarrel with him as for the thing formed to say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus ? 2. That God as certainly bears …
14787 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 821.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , live comfortably, live eternally. Keep the commandments, and thou shalt enter into life, Matthew 19:17 .
14788 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 821.15 (Matthew Henry)
… everlasting comfort and honour, upon him as a robe, upon his as a crown; and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him, to his everlasting confusion, upon …
14789 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 821.22 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to him; the righteousness of an apostate is forgotten, as the wickedness of a penitent is. Under the law, if a Nazarite was polluted he lost all the foregoing …
14790 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 823.9 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort and a great reward. Christ says, If thou wilt into enter life, and enjoy it, keep the commandments. Though those who are the most strict in their obedience …
14791 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 823.13 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, that God will secure his own honour, by making good his purpose, that while the world stands he will have a church in it.
14792 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 823.17 (Matthew Henry)
… any comfortable communion with God in ordinances of worship unless we be inward and upright with him therein. We make nothing of our profession if it be but …
14793 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 823.24 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to us, when people speak ill of us unjustly, that we have a God to complain to.
14794 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 824.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts make a great difference when his providence seems to make none. The good figs are sent into Babylon for their good, Jeremiah 24:5, 24:6. It is only …
14795 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 824.6 (Matthew Henry)
… not comfort within sufficient to arm them against every thing in it that is frightful? Yes, they have, while they conduct themselves as becomes his people …
14796 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 824.7 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable word which comes in in the midst of these terrible ones, though it be expressed somewhat obscurely. 1. The people of God begin to be afraid that …
14797 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 824.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of those who feared that the promise made in David would fail for evermore. “No,” says God, “that promise is sure, for the Messiah’s kingdom shall last …
14798 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 825.17 (Matthew Henry)
… other comfort and happiness than what their own hands can furnish them with, and a miserable portion it will prove. Verily, I say unto you, They have their reward …
14799 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 825.21 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort thyself with in the day of indignation; thou art not rained upon by divine consolations.” So the rich man in torment had not a drop of water, or rain …
14800 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 825.24 (Matthew Henry)
… were comfortable wives. They have persecuted those to death who witnessed against their pretensions to prophecy and would not be imposed upon by their …