Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

any of those who are truly so, how much soever despised in the world. Above all, let them take care that they are not a shame an ...

Verses 32–38 After all our searches into the Scriptures, there is more to be learned from them. We should be pleased to think, h ...

faith as these believers had, they will rise up to condemn us at the last day. Let us then pray continually for the increase of ...

discipline of such a state. When we come to a perfect state, we shall be fully reconciled to all God's chastisement of us now. G ...

he will deal with the despisers of the gospel, in a way of judgment. We cannot worship God acceptably, unless we worship him wit ...

dead, others dying, yet the great Head and High Priest of the church, the Bishop of their souls, ever lives, and is ever the sam ...

So bad are men, and even believers, through the remainders of their corruption, that when the most important, comfortable doctri ...

James This epistle of James is one of the most instructive writings in the New Testament. Being chiefly directed against particu ...

will grow wise by afflictions, will continue fervent in devotion, and rise above trials and oppositions. When our faith and spir ...

Verses 22–25 If we heard a sermon every day of the week, and an angel from heaven were the preacher, yet, if we rested in hearin ...

Verses 1–13 Those who profess faith in Christ as the Lord of glory, must not respect persons on account of mere outward circumst ...

of the understanding only, but a work of the whole heart. That a justifying faith cannot be without works, is shown from two exa ...

fruit of one tree from another. But facts prove that more professors succeed in bridling their senses and appetites, than in dul ...

reconciled, but “enmity” never can be reconciled. A man may have a large portion in things of this life, and yet be kept in the ...

to meditate and examine our consciences, as we are not to commit gross outward vices against light! Chapter 5 Chapter Outline Th ...

that the end will crown all. Our eternal happiness is safe if we trust to him: all else is mere vanity, which soon will be done ...

1 Peter The same great doctrines, as in St. Paul's epistles, are here applied to same practical purposes. And this epistle is re ...

which is laid up in the highest and best place, in heaven. Happy are those whose hearts the Holy Spirit sets on this inheritance ...

dangerous, though it may plead custom. It is folly to resolve, I will live and die in such a way, because my forefathers did so. ...

believers into one everlasting temple, and bears the weight of the whole fabric. Elected, or chosen, for a foundation that is ev ...