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TRUE GRACEROMANS 11:29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.MATTHEW HENRY’S COMMENTARY True grace seeks not to confine God’s favour. Those who find mercy themselves, should endeavour that through their mercy others also may obtain mercy.BARNES’ NOTES Such are all the favors which God best...

NOW IS THE TIME 2 CORINTHIANS 6:2 For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation. MEYER’S NT COMMENTARY 2 Corinthians 6:2 does not assign the reason why Paul is concerned about h...

JEREMIAH 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? GILL’S EXPOSITION It deceives him with respect to sin; it purposes it to him under the notion of pleasure; it promises him a great deal in it, but does not yield a real pleasure to him; it is all fancy a...

FOLLOW JESUS COLOSSIANS 2:6 And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. MACLAREN'S EXPOSITIONS As ye have received Christ, so walk in Him; as ye have been rooted in Him, so grow up in Him; as ye have been founded on Him, so be builded up.   

The constant presence of God with us.DEUTERONOMY 3:16 ...he will never leave you nor forsake you.

MISCHIEFPSALM 7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.DEFINITION of MISCHIEF misbehavior or troublemaking, intended to tease, mock, or create trouble, harm or trouble caused by someone, a cause or source of harm, evil or irritati...

WHATEVER HAPPENSA converted soul quiets itself under the loss of what it loved, and disappointments in what it hoped for, and is easy whatever happens.2 CORINTHIANS 4:18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

THE INTENTION IS ENOUGHPSALM 21:11 Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed.ELLICOTT'S COMMENTARY Though they have intended evil against thee, have plotted mischief, they have no power at all. BARNES' NOTES The purposes of wicked men are usually much more t...

IT WILL BE WELLISAIAH 3:10 Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY Not salvation by works, but by fruit-bearing faith.

I HAVE PUT MY WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH AND COVERED YOU WITH THE SHADOW OF MY HAND ISAIAH 51:16 I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand-- I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, 'You are my people.'"MATTHEW POOLE'S...