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15981 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1098.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of this life as far as they are needful for them, and mercy, or an interest in the free love and favour of God in Christ, which are the spring and fountain …
15982 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1098.19 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort them under all the trials of life and the prospect of death itself. This is fitly called the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, as he is both the sole …
15983 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort to himself that he is what he is by the will of God. 2. The persons to whom this epistle is sent: To the saints who are at Ephesus, that is, to the Christians …
15984 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.6 (Matthew Henry)
… a comforter, are heaven begun, glory in the seed and bud. The Spirit’s illumination is an earnest of everlasting light; sanctification is an earnest of perfect …
15985 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.8 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts of the Spirit are communicated to the soul by the enlightening of the understanding. In this way he gains and keeps possession. Satan takes a …
15986 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of this is that he is the head over all things to the church; he is entrusted with all power, that is, that he may dispose of all the affairs of the providential …
15987 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1100.1 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort and delight those whom God hath quickened, with a consideration of the mighty privileges with which they are invested.
15988 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1100.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and joy of God’s people that he who is head over all things to the church has conquered the devil and has him in his chain. But wicked men are slaves …
15989 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1101.7 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable. We may have access with confidence to speak to God, knowing that we have such a Mediator between God and us, and such an Advocate with the Father …
15990 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1102.1 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort. In what follows we shall hear of Christian duties, and what the Lord our God requires of us in consideration of such privileges vouchsafed to …
15991 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1103.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it, and therefore should love one another, Christ having loved us all and given such proof of his love to us; for he hath given himself for us. The …
15992 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1103.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comfort, assisting thee with his grace, and refreshing thy mind with joy and peace here and rewarding thee with eternal glory at length.” Observe, When we …
15993 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1103.7 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts, but also for our sanctified afflictions; not only for what immediately concerns ourselves, but for the instances of God’s kindness and favour …
15994 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1103.9 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of his spouse; and therefore she should the more cheerfully submit herself unto him. So it follows, Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ …
15995 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1104.14 (Matthew Henry)
… will comfort the soul and keep it from being troubled and tormented by Satan. He would tempt us to despair; but good hope keeps us trusting in God, and rejoicing …
15996 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1104.16 (Matthew Henry)
… might comfort their hearts, by giving such an account of his sufferings, of the cause of them, and of the temper of his mind and his behaviour under them, as might …
15997 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1105.8 (Matthew Henry)
… , his comfort, his crown, and was pleased at every mention of the place where he suffered. So far was he from being ashamed of them, or loth to hear of the scene of …
15998 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1105.9 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, he knows whom we mean when we do not name them.
15999 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1105.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of, God must have the glory of. He thanked God, as well as made requests with joy. As holy joy is the heart and soul of thankful praise, so thankful praise …
16000 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1105.11 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts, and gifts and usefulness, as we receive the benefit of them, and God receives glory by them. But what is the matter of this thanksgiving? 1. He gives …