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15881 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.40 (Matthew Henry)
… here comfort himself and all the people of God, upon the consideration of these privileges. In general, he here makes a challenge, throws down the gauntlet …
15882 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.41 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts? Who can cut off our streams, while we have a fountain to go to? 1. Observe what God has done for us, on which our hopes are built: He spared not his own …
15883 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.42 (Matthew Henry)
… for comfort? What shall we say to these things? Isa. this the manner of men, O Lord God? What room is left for doubting and disquietment? Why art thou cast down, O my …
15884 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.45 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts, exposed to the greatest perils, the sword of the magistrate drawn against them, ready to be sheathed in their bowels, bathed in their blood …
15885 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.50 (Matthew Henry)
… special comforts and supports. Thus we are conquerors, not in our own strength, but in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. We are conquerors by virtue of our interest …
15886 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.51 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts and pleasures of life on the other, neither the fear of death nor the hope of life. Or, We shall not be separated from that love either in death or …
15887 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1056.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the promises is to be had in obedience to that law and attendance upon that service. (7.) Whose are the fathers ( Romans 9:5 ), Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob …
15888 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1058.9 (Matthew Henry)
… their comforts: Let their table be made a snare, that is, as the psalmist explains it, Let that which should be for their welfare be a trap to them. The curse of God …
15889 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1058.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts and privileges of the gospel, and shall not we repent of our refusal, and now at last put in for a share? Shall not we believe and obey, and be pardoned …
15890 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1058.23 (Matthew Henry)
… , our comfort is that God is able to work a change, able to graft those in that have been long cast out and withered. When the house is kept by the strong man armed …
15891 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1059.19 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort to the miserable; when they see it is not done grudgingly and unwillingly, but with pleasant looks and gentle words, and all possible indications …
15892 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1059.25 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort which we have not; not despising those that are in trouble, but concerned for them, and ready to help them, as being ourselves in the body. This is to …
15893 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1060.10 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort. “Do that which is good ( Romans 13:3 ), and thou needest not be afraid of the power, which, though terrible, reaches none but those that by their own sin …
15894 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1061.9 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort. This hope is built upon the power of God, for God is able to make him stand; and, being able, no doubt he is willing to exert that power for the preservation …
15895 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1061.10 (Matthew Henry)
… may comfortably appeal from thy rash censure.”
15896 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1061.27 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable, but not necessary to the support of human life, and therefore we may, and must, deny ourselves in them, rather than give offence. It is good —pleasing …
15897 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1061.30 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort are destroyed by such an offence given; take heed of it therefore; do not undo that which God hath done. You should work together with God, do not countermine …
15898 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1061.31 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfortable walking, as it frees us from those scruples, jealousies, and suspicions, which those who have not such clearness are entangled in endlessly …
15899 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.6 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable a society would the church of Christ be if Christians would study to please one another, as now we see them commonly industrious to cross …
15900 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the scriptures, that comfort which springs from the word of God (that is the surest and sweetest comfort) is likewise a great stay to hope, as it …