NT.filter - geneva combat:

geneva@John:13:1 @ Now (note:)Christ is as sure of the victory as he is of the combat which was at hand, and by using the sign of washing the feet, gives by this an example in part of singular modesty, and his great love toward his apostles in this notable act, being likely to depart very shortly from them: and he partly witnesses unto them that it is he alone who washes away the filth of his people, and sanctifies them little by little in their time and season.(:note) before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his Those of his household, that is, his saints. own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

geneva@1Corinthians:10:9 @ Neither let us tempt (note:)To tempt Christ is to provoke him to a combat as it were, which those men do who abuse the knowledge that he has given them, and make it to serve for a cloak for their lusts and wickedness.(:note) Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

geneva@1Peter:5:9 @ Whom resist stedfast in the faith, (note:)The persecutions which Satan stirs up, are neither new nor proper to any one man, but from old and ancient times common to the whole Church, and therefore we must suffer patiently, in which we have such and so many fellows of our conflicts and combats.(:note) knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your Amongst your brethren which are dispersed throughout the world. brethren that are in the world.