mhcc - neighbours

mhcc@Genesis:6:22 @ Verse 22 -...labour, and expense. His neighbours would...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Genesis:12:6-9 @ Verse 6-9 -...taught his family and neighbours the...

mhcc@Genesis:21:22-34 @ Verse 22-34 -...worship, in which his neighbours might...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Genesis:30:1-13 @ Verse 1-13 -...more hurtful to our neighbours and...-servants, because our Master's is good. Jacob loved Rachel, and therefore reproved her for what she said amiss. Faithful reproofs show true affection. God may be to us instead of any creature; but it is sin and folly to place any creature in God's stead, and to place that confidence in any creature, which should be placed in God only. At the persuasion of Rachel, Jacob took Bilhah her handmaid to wife, that, according to the usage of those times, her children might be owned as her mistress's children. Had not Rachel's heart been influenced by evil passions, she would have thought her sister's children nearer to her, and more entitled to her care than Bilhah's. But children whom she had a right to rule, were more desirable to her than children she had more reason to love. As an early instance of her power over these children, she takes pleasure in giving them names that carry in them marks of rivalry with her sister. See what roots of bitterness envy and strife are, and what mischief they make among relations. At the persuasion of Leah, Jacob took Zilpah her handmaid to wife also. See the power of jealousy and rivalship, and admire the wisdom of the Divine appointment, which joins together one man and one woman only; for God hath called us to peace and purity.

mhcc@Genesis:42:1-6 @ Verse 1-6 -...saw the corn his neighbours had...-dying souls. There is provision in Christ; but we must come to him, and seek it from him.

mhcc@Numbers:15:37-41 @ Verse 37-41 -...were distinguished from their neighbours in...2Peter strkjv@3:1. If they were tempted to sin, the fringe would warn them not to break God's commandments. We should use every means of refreshing our memories with the truths and precepts of God's word, to strengthen and quicken our obedience, and arm our minds against temptation. Be holy unto your God; cleansed from sin, and sincerely devoted to his service; and that great reason for all the commandments is again and again repeated, "I am the Lord your God." **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Deuteronomy:19:14 @ Verse 14 -...be just to his neighbours in...

mhcc@1Samuel:14:47-52 @ Verse 47-52 -...had any of his neighbours cause..._1__15 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@2Samuel:10:1-5 @ Verse 1-5 - Nahash had been an enemy to Israel, yet had showed kindness to David. David therefore resolves gratefully to return it. If a Pharisee gives alms in pride, though God will not reward it, yet he that receives the alms ought to return thanks for it. Those who bear ill-...to believe that their neighbours bear...-will to them. There is nothing so well meant, but it may be ill interpreted, and is wont to be so, by men who love nobody but themselves. The best men must not think it strange if they are thus misrepresented. Charity thinketh no evil. According to the usages of those days and countries, Hanun treated David's ambassadors in the most contemptuous manner. David showed much concern for his servants. Let us learn not to lay unjust reproaches to heart; they will wear off, and turn only to the shame of those who utter or do them; while the reputation wrongfully hurt in a little time grows again, as these beards did. God will bring forth thy righteousness as the light, therefore wait patiently for him,

mhcc@Isaiah:30:1-7 @ Verse 1-7 -...when troubled by their neighbours on...

mhcc@Lamentations:2:10-22 @ Verse 10-22 -...deceived them. And their neighbours laughed...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Matthew:3:7-12 @ Verse 7-12 -...exposed; separated from corrupt neighbours without,...

mhcc@Romans:2:17-24 @ Verse 17-24 - The apostle directs his discourse to the Jews, and shows of what sins they were guilty, notwithstanding their profession and vain pretensions. A believing, humble, thankful glorying in God, is the root and sum of all religion. But proud, vain-...despise their more ignorant neighbours who...

mhcc@Romans:13:1-7 @ Verse 1-7 - The grace of the gospel teaches us submission and quiet, where pride and the carnal mind only see causes for murmuring and discontent. Whatever the persons in authority over us themselves may be, yet the just power they have, must be submitted to and obeyed. In the general course of human affairs, rulers are not a terror to honest, quiet, and good subjects, but to evil-...of God. Thus honest neighbours are...

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