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Colossians 3:7

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sometime--"once." walked...when ye lived in them--These sins were the very element in which ye "lived" (before ye became once for all dead with Christ to them); no wonder, then, that ye "walked" in...

Job 12:7 - 8

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Beasts, birds, fishes, and plants, reasons Job, teach that the violent live the most securely (Job 12:6). The vulture lives more securely than the dove, the lion than the ox, the shark than the...

Jeremiah 34:1 - 7

Matthew Henry Concise

Zedekiah is told that the city shall be taken, and that he shall die a captive, but he shall die a natural death. It is better to live and die penitent in a prison, than to live and die impenitent...

Psalms 118:17 - 18

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He would live, because confident his life would be for God's glory.

Amos 9:4

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though they go into captivity--hoping to save their lives by voluntarily surrendering to the foe.

Ezekiel 18:9

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truly--with integrity. surely live--literally, "live in life." Prosper in this life, but still more in the life to come (Pr 3:1, 2; Am 5:4).

2 Kings 19:4

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the living God--"The living God" is a most significant expression taken in connection with the senseless deities that Rab-shakeh boasted were unable to resist his master's victorious arms.

Proverbs 4:4

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He taught--or directed me. retain--as well as receive. keep...and live--observe, that you may live (Pr 7:2).

Psalms 128:2

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For thou shalt eat--that is, It is a blessing to live on the fruits of one's own industry.

Isaiah 38:16

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by these--namely, by God's benefits, which are implied in the context (Isa 38:15, "He hath Himself done it" "unto me"). All "men live by these" benefits (Ps 104:27-30), "and in all these is the...

Isaiah 65:22

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They shall not experience the curse pronounced (Le 26:16; De28:30). tree--among the most long-lived of objects in nature. They shall live as long as the trees they "plant" (compare Isa 61:3, end of...

Psalms 116:9

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walk before the Lord--act, or live under His favor and guidance (Ge17:1; Ps 61:7). land of the living--(Ps 27:13).

Romans 14:9

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For to this end Christ both, &c.--The true reading here is, To this end Christ died and lived ("again"). that he might be Lord both of the dead and--"and of the" living--The grand object of His...

Ezekiel 16:6

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when I passed by--as if a traveller. polluted in...blood--but Piscator, "ready to be trodden on." I said--In contrast to Israel's helplessness stands God's omnipotent word of grace which bids the...

Daniel 7:3

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beasts--not living animals, as the cherubic four in Re 4:7 (for the original is a different word from "beasts," and ought to be there translated, living animals). The cherubic living animals...

Psalms 119:166 - 168

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As they keep God's law from motives of love for it, and are free from slavish fear, the are ready to subject their lives to His inspection.

Revelation 19:4

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beasts--rather, "living creatures." sat--Greek, "sitteth."

Isaiah 38:19

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living...living--emphatic repetition, as in Isa 38:11, 17; his heart is so full of the main object of his prayer that, for want of adequate words, he repeats the same word. father to the children...

Daniel 1:13 - 15

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Illustrating De 8:3, "Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord."

Ezekiel 1:20

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the spirit was to go--that is, their will was for going whithersoever the Spirit was for going. over against them--rather, beside or in conjunction with them. spirit of the living creature--put...

John 6:57

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As the living Father hath sent me--to communicate His own life. and I live by the Father--literally, "because of the Father"; My life and His being one, but Mine that of a Son, whose it is to be...

Psalms 89:48

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What man--literally, "strong man--shall live?" and, indeed, have not all men been made in vain, as to glorifying God?

Psalms 124:3

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Then--that is, the time of our danger. quick--literally, "living" (Nu 16:32, 33), description of ferocity.

Job 14:11

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sea--that is, a lake, or pool formed from the outspreading of a river. Job lived near the Euphrates: and "sea" is applied to it (Jer51:36; Isa 27:1). So of the Nile (Isa 19:5). fail--utterly...

Psalms 58:9

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he shall take them away as with a whirlwind--literally, "blow him (them) away." both living...wrath--literally, "as the living" or fresh as the heated or burning--that is, thorns--all easily blown...

Jeremiah 23:36

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every man's word...his burden--As they mockingly call all prophecies burdens, as if calamities were the sole subject of prophecy, so it shall prove to them. God will take them at their own word. ...

Philippians 1:22

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Rather as Greek, "But if to live in the flesh (if), this (I say, the continuance in life which I am undervaluing) be the fruit of my labor (that is, be the condition in which the fruit of my...

John 6:52 - 59

Matthew Henry Concise

The flesh and blood of the Son of man, denote the Redeemer in the nature of man; Christ and him crucified, and the redemption wrought out by him, with all the precious benefits of redemption;...

Proverbs 10:15

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This refers to the common mistakes both of rich and poor, as to their outward condition. Rich people's wealth exposes them to many dangers; while a poor man may live comfortably, if he is...

Revelation 7:17

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in the midst of the throne--that is, in the middle point in front of the throne (Re 5:6). feed--Greek, "tend as a shepherd." living fountains of water--A, B, Vulgate, and Cyprian read, (eternal)...

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