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geneva@Matthew:12:4 @ How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the (note:)The Hebrews call it «bread of faces», because it stood before the Lord all the week upon the golden table appointed for that service; (Lev_24:6).(:note) shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

geneva@Matthew:12:5 @ Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple (note:)When the priests do God's service on the sabbath day, they do not break the law: much less does the Lord of the Sabbath break the sabbath.(:note) profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

geneva@Acts:10:35 @ But in every nation he that (note:)By the «fear of God» the Hebrews understood the whole service of God, by which we perceive that Cornelius was not void of faith, no more than they were who lived before Christ's time: and therefore they deal incorrectly who deduce meritorious works and free will from this passage.(:note) feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

geneva@Acts:17:29 @ Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, (note:)Which things (gold, silver, and stones) are custom engraved as much as a man's mind can devise, for men will not worship those things as they are, unless by some art it has formed into an image of some sort.(:note) graven by art and man's device.

geneva@Romans:1:21 @ Because that, when they knew God, they (note:)They did not honour him with that honour and service which was appropriate for his everlasting power and Godhead.(:note) glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became As if he said, became so corrupt in themselves. vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

geneva@Romans:9:4 @ Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the (note:)The ark of the covenant, which was a token of God's presence.(:note) glory, and the The tables of the covenant, and this is spoken by the figure of speech metonymy. covenants, and the giving of the Of the judicial law. law, and the The ceremonial law. service [of God], and the Which were made to Abraham and to his posterity. promises;

geneva@Romans:12:1 @ I beseech (note:)The fourth part of this epistle, which after the finishing of the principal points of Christian doctrine, consists in the declaring of precepts of the Christian life. And first of all he gives general precepts and grounds: the principal of which is this, that every man consecrate himself wholly to the spiritual service of God, and do as it were sacrifice himself, trusting the grace of God.(:note) you therefore, brethren, By this preface he shows that God's glory is the utmost goal of everything we do. by the mercies of God, that ye In times past the sacrifices were presented before the altar: but now the altar is everywhere. present your Yourselves: in times past other bodies besides our own, but now our own must be offered. bodies a In times past, dead sacrifices were offered, but now we must offer those which have the spirit of life in them. living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your Spiritual. reasonable service.

geneva@1Corinthians:3:9 @ For we are (note:)Serving under him: now they who serve under another do nothing by their own strength, but as it is given them of grace, which grace makes them fit for that service. See (1Co_15:10; 2Co_3:6). All the increase that comes by their labour proceeds from God in such a way that no part of the praise of it may be given to the servant.(:note) labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building.

geneva@1Corinthians:6:9 @ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? (note:)Now he prepares himself to pass over to the fourth treatise of this epistle, which concerns other matters, concerning this matter first, how men may well use a woman or not. And this question has three parts: fornication, matrimony, and a single life. As for fornication, he utterly condemns it. And marriage he commands to some, as a good and necessary remedy for them: to others he leaves is free. And others he dissuades from it, not as unlawful, but as inconvenient, and that not without exception. As for singleness of life (under which also I comprehend virginity) he enjoins it to no man: yet he persuades men to it, but not for itself, but for another respect, neither to all men, nor without exception. And being about to speak against fornication, he begins with a general reprehension of those vices, with which that rich and riotous city most abounded: warning and teaching them earnestly, that repentance is inseparable joined with forgiveness of sins, and sanctification with justification.(:note) Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

geneva@1Corinthians:7:28 @ But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the (note:)By the «flesh» he understands whatever things belong to this present life, for marriage brings with it many problems. So that he leans more to a single life, not because it is a service more agreeable to God than marriage is, but for those problems which (if it were possible) he would wish all men to be avoid, so that they might give themselves to God alone.(:note) flesh: but I I would your weakness were provided for. spare you.

geneva@2Corinthians:2:11 @ Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his (note:)Of his mischievous counsel and devilish will.(:note) devices.

geneva@Ephesians:6:6 @ Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, (note:)To cut off occasion of all pretences, he teaches us that it is God's will that some are either born or made servants, and therefore they must respect God's will although their service is ever so hard.(:note) doing the will of God from the heart;

geneva@Ephesians:6:7 @ With good will doing service, as to the (note:)Being moved with a reverence for God, as though you served God himself.(:note) Lord, and not to men:

geneva@Philippians:2:17 @ Yea, and if I be offered upon the (note:)As if he said, I brought you Philippians to Christ, and my desire is that you present yourselves a living sacrifice to him, and then it will not grieve me to be offered up as a drink offering, to accomplish this your spiritual offering.(:note) sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

geneva@Philippians:2:30 @ Because for the (note:)He calls here the work of Christ the visiting of Christ, being poor and in bonds in the person of Paul.(:note) work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

geneva@2Thessalonians:3:11 @ For we hear that there are some which walk among (note:)How great a fault idleness is, he declares in that God created no man in vain or to no purpose, neither is there any to whom he has not allotted as it were a certain position and place. From which it follows, that the order which God has appointed is troubled by the idle, indeed broken, which is great sin and wickedness.(:note) you disorderly, working not at all, He reprehends a vice, which is joined with the former, upon which follows an infinite sort of mischiefs: that is, that there are none more busy in other men's matters, than they who neglect their own. but are busybodies.

geneva@1Timothy:3:6 @ Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the (note:)Lest by reason that he is advanced to that position, he takes occasion to be proud, which will undo him, and so he fall into the same condemnation that the devil himself has fallen into.(:note) condemnation of the devil.

geneva@Hebrews:5:2 @ Who (note:)Fit and meet.(:note) can have compassion on the ignorant, and On them that are sinful: for in the Hebrew tongue, under ignorance and error is every sin meant, even that sin that is voluntary. on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is He carries with him a nature subject to the same inconveniences and vices. compassed with infirmity.

geneva@Hebrews:9:1 @ Then verily (note:)A division of the first tabernacle which he calls worldly, that is to say, transitory, and earthly, into two parts, that is, into the holy places, and the Holiest of all.(:note) the first [covenant] had also ordinances of divine service, and a An earthy and a fleeting. worldly sanctuary.

geneva@1Peter:2:14 @ Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him (note:)The second argument taken from the end of this order, which is not only most profitable, but also very necessary: seeing that by that this means virtue is rewarded, and vice punished, in which the peacefulness and happiness if this life consists.(:note) for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.