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16021 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1110.3 (Matthew Henry)
… be comforted, being knit together in love, etc., Colossians 2:2. It was their spiritual welfare about which he was solicitous. He does not say that they may be healthy …
16022 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1110.6 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort in our souls: That their hearts might be comforted. The soul prospers when it is filled with joy and peace ( Romans 15:13 ), and has a satisfaction within …
16023 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1110.7 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort. The stronger our faith is, and the warmer our love, the greater will our comfort be. Having occasion to mention Christ ( Colossians 2:2 ), according …
16024 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1110.10 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of God’s grace is to be much in giving thanks for it. We must join thanksgiving to all our improvements, and be sensible of the mercy of all our privileges …
16025 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1111.6 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, that our life is hid with him, and laid up safely with him. As we have reason to love him whom we have not seen ( 1 Peter 1:8 ), so we may take the comfort of …
16026 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1111.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of their being chosen and beloved. It becomes those who are holy towards God to be lowly and loving towards all men. Observe, What we must put on in …
16027 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1111.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable sense of his acceptance and favour: or, a disposition to peace among yourselves, a peaceable spirit, that keeps the peace, and makes peace. This …
16028 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1111.16 (Matthew Henry)
… greatest comfort and blessing of life. And they must not be bitter against them, not use them unkindly, with harsh language or severe treatment, but be kind …
16029 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1112.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comfort your hearts, Colossians 4:8. He was willing to hear from them as they could be to hear from him, and thought himself as much obliged to sympathize …
16030 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1112.10 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort unto me. Observe, What comfort the apostle had in the communion of saints and ministers! One is his fellow-servant, another his fellow-prisoner, and …
16031 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1113.8 (Matthew Henry)
… have comfort in our own faith and the faith of others when we perceive the work of faith. Show me thy faith by thy works, James 2:18. (2.) Their love and labour of love …
16032 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.2 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfortable reflection upon his entrance in among the Thessalonians. As he had the testimony of his own conscience witnessing to his integrity, so he …
16033 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.3 (Matthew Henry)
… Paul’s comfort; he was neither daunted in his work, nor driven from it.
16034 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.4 (Matthew Henry)
… greatest comfort to the apostle—the consciousness of his own sincerity; and was one reason of his success. It was the sincere and uncorrupted gospel that …
16035 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1114.10 (Matthew Henry)
… he comforted them also, endeavouring to cheer and support their spirits under the difficulties and discouragements they might meet with. And this he did …
16036 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1115.4 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforted, that they might confirmed in the choice they had made of the Christian religion, and comforted in the profession and practice of it. Note, The …
16037 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1115.12 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort and satisfaction the apostle had in this good report concerning them ( 1 Thessalonians 3:7, 3:8 ): Therefore, brethren, we were comforted in all our …
16038 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1115.13 (Matthew Henry)
… greatest comforts, must be our constant care, while in this world of temptation and imperfection. There was something still lacking in their faith; Paul desired …
16039 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1116.1 (Matthew Henry)
… with comforting those who mourned for their relations and friends that died in the Lord, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-4:18 .
16040 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1116.14 (Matthew Henry)
… live comfortably, and have lack of nothing, 1 Thessalonians 4:12. People often by their slothfulness bring themselves into narrow circumstances, and reduce …