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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: You should hear some of them talk, and you would soon know that; for I know some of the righteous that seldom talk of anything else. “Oh! the badness of trade!” They have been losing money — oh! ever since I knew them. They had not any when they started, but they have gone on losing money every year; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many are the afflictions of the righteous:- Do not tell the children that the good are always happy, and that the good escape trial, because you will deceive them if you do. “Many are the afflictions of the righteous,” — the happiness, the glory, the heaven of the righteous is not here, but hereafter. “Many are the afflictions of the righteous”:-...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. He will have many a flesh wound, but there shall be no permanent injury to him; and even though his body were diseased, his soul would be saved.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. Many who read this verse admit that the first part of it is true: “Many are the afflictions of the righteous.” Yes, but the latter clause is also true: “but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.” Do not omit either portion of the passage, for one part is as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. He sustains no real injury. He gets flesh wounds and bruises, but his bones are not broken. That is to say, the substantial part of his nature is well kept and preserved.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He keepeth all his bones. Not one of them is broken. The righteous may have skin wounds, and flesh wounds, but they shall not suffer any real hurt. God will not let his people be so injured as to be incapable of holiness. There shall be no bone-breaking in Christ’s mystical body, even as not one of the bones of Christ was broken.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. Evil shall slay the wicked: Their own evil shall be their destruction. They need nothing more than to be suffered to go on in sin. Sin is hell. The fire of corruption is the fire of perdition. Evil shall slay the wicked.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. God’s people shall suffer no real, lasting, vital injury. You may have flesh wounds, but as to the bones of your spirit, as it were, the solid part of it, “not one of them is broken.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Evil shall slay the wicked: Sin itself shall slaughter them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: Great as the price is, he pays it; they are so precious to him that he minds not what price he pays so that he may redeem the souls of his servants.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. How grandly does David preach the gospel! We need not look to Paul to learn salvation by faith. The Psalms are full of it. We have had it just before. “Blessed is the man that trusteth in him”; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. They shall want nothing else to make an end of them but their own sins: “Evil shall slay the wicked.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. Blessed be his holy name!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. Now we are going to read the last chapter of the Book of the prophet Hosea, the first of the minor prophets. This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 34; and Hosea 14.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. A common temptation. Many of God’s saints have suffered from it. Learn from their experience. Avoid this danger. There really is no power in it, when once the heart has come to rest in God. But it is a sad affliction until the heart does get its rest....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of inequity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. No one envies the grass, let it be never so green; no one envies flowers, let them be never so fragrant, for we know that grass must be cut, and that flowers must wither. Let...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. What a contrast there is between the grass before the mower comes with his scythe, and that same grass when it is cut down; and there is the same kind of difference between...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. What if their lot be sweet? Yet consider how short it is. No wise man envies the bullock which is being fattened, for he knows that it is being fattened for the slaughter....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. They often seem to have the best of it in this life; but if it really is so, we must never forget that there is another life after this, in which there will be no reason for the righteous to be envious of evildoers and workers of iniquity.