The wife must discharge her duty to her own husband, though he obey not the word. We daily see how narrowly evil men watch the ways and lives of professors of religion. Putting on of apparel is not forbidden, but vanity and costliness in ornament. Religious people should take care that all their behaviour answers … Continue reading Matthew Henry Monday
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Matthew Henry Monday
This epistle is addressed to believers in general, who are strangers in every city or country where they live, and are scattered through the nations. These are to ascribe their salvation to the electing love of the Father, the redemption of the Son, and the sanctification of the Holy Ghost; and so to give glory … Continue reading Matthew Henry Monday
Matthew Henry Monday
The apostle deals plainly with those who urged the law of Moses together with the gospel of Christ, and endeavoured to bring believers under its bondage. They could not fully understand the meaning of the law as given by Moses. And as that was a dispensation of darkness, so of bondage; they were tied to … Continue reading Matthew Henry Monday
Matthew Henry Monday
By nature we are darkened in our understandings and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in us due to the hardening of our hearts. Ephesians 4:18 The things that come from the Spirit of God are foolishness to the man without the Spirit, and, if left to ourselves, we cannot … Continue reading Matthew Henry Monday
Matthew Henry Monday
That they were removed to another gospel, which yet was not another. Thus the apostle represents the doctrine of these judaizing teachers; he calls it another gospel, because it opened a different way of justification and salvation from that which was revealed in the gospel, namely, by works, and not by faith in Christ. And yet he … Continue reading Matthew Henry Monday
