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15441 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 989.55 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comfort, no, nor any extraordinary gift which God bestows upon them, which makes them eminently acceptable or useful. Paul, before his conversion, had been …
15442 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 990.1 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable subsistence to betake himself to. The parable itself we have ( Luke 16:1-16:8 ); the explanation and application of it ( Luke 16:9-16:13 ); and the contempt …
15443 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 990.2 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort on the other side death and the grave. If we would act wisely, we must be diligent and industrious to employ our riches in the acts of piety and charity …
15444 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 990.7 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable subsistence in this world, shames our improvidence for another world: The children of this world, who choose and have their portions in it, are …
15445 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 990.9 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfortable reception to the happiness of another world, by making good use of our possessions and enjoyments in this world: “ Make to yourselves friends …
15446 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 990.11 (Matthew Henry)
… future comforts which are the gifts of his spiritual grace ? Our Saviour here compares these, and shows that though our faithful use of the things of this world …
15447 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 990.47 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it here (perhaps their souls refused to be comforted), yet, when they are fallen asleep in Christ, you may truly say, “Now they are comforted : now all …
15448 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 990.48 (Matthew Henry)
… , to comfort or relieve any there who once were their friends. “ They that would pass hence to you cannot; they cannot leave beholding the face of their Father …
15449 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 991.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it; but this is wrong. First let Christ have the glory of it, let us attend him with our praises, and then we shall eat and drink in the comfort of that …
15450 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 991.11 (Matthew Henry)
… some comfort to them, as giving them an opportunity to compare notes, and to condole with one another. Now observe, 1. They met Christ as he entered into a certain …
15451 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 992.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of his poor creatures, especially those in distress, as widows and fatherless. [5.] She came to this judge purely upon her own account; but God is himself …
15452 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 992.14 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, that, when the time appointed comes, it will appear that the unbelief of man has not made the promise of God of no effect.
15453 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 992.31 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comfortable, and provided for our relief, in case we take any false step. Thou knowest the commandments. Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets …
15454 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 992.37 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts of God’s Spirit, in the pleasures of communion with God and of a good conscience, advantages which, to those that know how to value and improve …
15455 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 992.47 (Matthew Henry)
… doubly comfortable when they come in that way, when we are saved by faith .
15456 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 993.32 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to Christ’s messengers that they shall bring what they are sent for, if indeed the Lord has occasion for it.
15457 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 994.21 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of human life, here in this state where we carry bodies about with us. It is likewise a remedy against fornication, that natural desires might not …
15458 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 994.24 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of that world that there is no more death there, which sullies all the beauty, and damps all the comforts, of this world. Here death reigns, but thence …
15459 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 995.14 (Matthew Henry)
… present comforts, especially in the joys of a life eternal;” so that though we may be losers for Christ we shall not, we cannot, be losers by him in the end.
15460 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 996.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of that would carry him the more cheerfully through his sufferings, and make them the easier to him. Note, Our gospel passover, eaten by faith with …