mhcc - converse

mhcc@Genesis:12:6-9 @ Verse 6-9 -...have little satisfaction in converse with...11:16. As soon as Abram was got to Canaan, though he was but a stranger and sojourner there, yet he set up, and kept up, the worship of God in his family. He not only minded the ceremonial part of religion, the offering of sacrifice; but he made conscience of seeking his God, and calling on his name; that spiritual sacrifice with which God is well pleased. He preached concerning the name of the Lord; he taught his family and neighbours the knowledge of the true God, and his holy religion. The way of family worship is a good old way, no new thing, but the ancient usage of the saints. Abram was rich, and had a numerous family, was now unsettled, and in the midst of enemies; yet, wherever he pitched his tent, he built an altar: wherever we go, let us not fail to take our religion along with us.

mhcc@Genesis:24:54-67 @ Verse 54-67 -...exercises by which we converse with...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Exodus:32:15-20 @ Verse 15-20 -...communion with God, to converse with...

mhcc@Judges:6:11-24 @ Verse 11-24 -...awful to have any converse with...

mhcc@Ruth:2:4-16 @ Verse 4-16 -...of Israel from the converse and...-natured servants that hate their master's eye, but they returned his courtesy. Things are likely to go on well where there is such good-will as this between masters and servants. They expressed their kindness to each other by praying one for another. Boaz inquired concerning the stranger he saw, and ordered her to be well treated. Masters must take care, not only that they do no hurt themselves, but that they suffer not their servants and those under them to do wrong. Ruth humbly owned herself unworthy of favours, seeing she was born and brought up a heathen. It well becomes us all to think humbly of ourselves, esteeming others better than ourselves. And let us, in the kindness of Boaz to Ruth, note the kindness of the Lord Jesus Christ to poor sinners.

mhcc@1Samuel:23:14-18 @ Verse 14-18 - David made no attempt against Saul; he kept God's way, waited God's time, and was content to secure himself in woods and wildernesses. Let it make us think the worse of this world, which often gives such bad treatment to its best men: let it make us long for that kingdom where goodness shall for ever be in glory, and holiness in honour. We find Jonathan comforting David. As a pious friend, he directed him to God, the Foundation of his comfort. As a self-...kept up. If the converse of...

mhcc@2Kings:6:1-7 @ Verse 1-7 -...that pleasantness in the converse of...-head. And to those who have an honest mind, the sorest grievance of poverty is, not so much their own want and disgrace, as being rendered unable to pay just debts. But the Lord cares for his people in their smallest concerns. And God's grace can thus raise the stony iron heart, which is sunk into the mud of this world, and raise up affections, naturally earthly.

mhcc@Psalms:65:1-5 @ Verse 1-5 - All the praise the Lord receives from this earth is from Zion, being the fruit of the Spirit of Christ, and acceptable through him. Praise is silent unto thee, as wanting words to express the great goodness of God. He reveals himself upon a mercy-...blessedness. It is to converse with...-place. Observe how we come into communion with God; only by God's free choice. There is abundance of goodness in God's house, and what is satisfying to the soul; there is enough for all, enough for each: it is always ready; and all without money and without price. By faith and prayer we may keep up communion with God, and bring in comfort from him, wherever we are. But it is only through that blessed One, who approaches the Father as our Advocate and Surety, that sinners may expect or can find this happiness.

mhcc@Proverbs:27:15,16. @ Verse 15,16. -...take heed whom we converse with....18. Though a calling be laborious and despised, yet those who keep to it, will find there is something to be got by it. God is a Master who has engaged to honour those who serve him faithfully.19. One corrupt heart is like another; so are sanctified hearts: the former bear the same image of the earthly, the latter the same image of the heavenly. Let us carefully watch our own hearts, comparing them with the word of God.20. Two things are here said to be never satisfied, death and sin. The appetites of the carnal mind for profit or pleasure are always desiring more. Those whose eyes are ever toward the Lord, are satisfied in him, and shall for ever be so.21. Silver and gold are tried by putting them into the furnace and fining-pot; so is a man tried by praising him.22. Some are so bad, that even severe methods do not answer the end; what remains but that they should be rejected? The new-creating power of God's grace alone is able to make a change.23-27. We ought to have some business to do in this world, and not to live in idleness, and not to meddle with what we do not understand. We must be diligent and take pains. Let us do what we can, still the world cannot be secured to us, therefore we must choose a more lasting portion; but by the blessing of God upon our honest labours, we may expect to enjoy as much of earthly blessings as is good for us. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Ecclesiastes:4:9-12 @ Verse 9-12 -...other's hearts while they converse together...

mhcc@Song:of @ Solomon strkjv@7:10-13 Verse 10-13 -...And those who would converse with...__8 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Isaiah:14:1-23 @ Verse 1-23 -...And that souls have converse with...-doers shall never be renowned. The royal city is to be ruined and forsaken. Thus the utter destruction of the New Testament Babylon is illustrated, Revelation strkjv@18:2. When a people will not be made clean with the besom of reformation, what can they expect but to be swept off the face of the earth with the besom of destruction?

mhcc@Mark:2:13-17 @ Verse 13-17 - Matthew was not a good character, or else, being a Jew, he would never have been a publican, that is, a tax-gatherer for the Romans. However, Christ called this publican to follow him. With God, through Christ, there is mercy to pardon the greatest sins, and grace to change the greatest sinners, and make them holy. A faithful, fair-dealing publican was rare. And because the Jews had a particular hatred to an office which proved that they were subject to the Romans, they gave these tax-...did not hesitate to converse with,...

mhcc@Luke:21:29-38 @ Verse 29-38 -...only, and have no converse with...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Acts:4:5-14 @ Verse 5-14 -...so that all who converse with...

mhcc@Acts:18:24-28 @ Verse 24-28 -...a great deal by converse with...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@1Corinthians:5:9-13 @ Verse 9-13 -...are to avoid familiar converse with..._1__6 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@2Corinthians:6:11-18 @ Verse 11-18 -...not defile ourselves by converse with..._2__7 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@Colossians:4:2-6 @ Verse 2-6 -...Be careful in all converse with...

mhcc@2John:1:4-6 @ Verse 4-6 -...walk is true, our converse right,...

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