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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. Let him have all he asks, and more. Better lose a suit of cloth than be drawn into a suit in law. The courts of our Lord’s day were vicious, and his disciples were advised to suffer wrong sooner than appeal to them. Our own courts often furnish the surest...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Governments in those days demanded forced service through their petty officers. Christians were to be of a yielding temper, and bear a double exaction rather than provoke ill words and anger. We ought not to evade taxation, but stand ready to render to Caesar his due. “Yield” is our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. If you can do him any service, do it cheerfully, do it readily. Do what he wants of you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. Be generous. A miser is no follower of Jesus. Discretion is to be used in our giving, lest we encourage idleness and beggary; but the general rule is, “Give to him that asketh thee.” Sometimes a loan may be more useful than a gift, do not refuse it to those...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. This is the spirit of the Christian — to live with the view of doing service.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. In this case a command of Scripture had a human antithesis fitted on to it by depraved minds and this human addition was mischievous. This is a common method, to append to the teaching of Scripture a something which seems to grow out of it, or to be a natural...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. God constantly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Ours it is to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Stretch towards the highest conceivable standard, and be not satisfied till you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Rise out of ordinary manhood. Get beyond what others might expect of you. Have a high standard. “Be ye, therefore, perfect, even as your...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? Any common sort of man will love those who love him; even tax gatherers and the scum of the earth can rise to this poor, starveling virtue. Saints cannot be content with such a groveling style of things. “Love for love is manlike,” but “love for hate” is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? On a journey, or in the streets, or in the house, we are not to confine our friendly greetings to those who are near and dear to us. Courtesy should be wide, and none the less sincere because general. We should speak kindly to all, and treat every man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Or, “Ye shall be perfect.” We should reach after completeness in love, fullness of love to all around us. Love is the bond of perfectness; and if we have perfect love, it will form in us a perfect character. Here is that which we aim at, perfection like that of God; here...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. “You cannot expect to be paid twice, if therefore you take your reward in the applause of men, who give you a high character for generosity, you cannot expect to have any reward from God.” We ought to have a single eye...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Our blessed Lord does not tell his disciples to give alms, but he takes it for granted that they do that. How could they be his disciples if they did not so? But he tells them to take care that they do not do this in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. The motive which leads a man to give, will form the true estimate of what he does. If he gives to be seen of men then when he is seen of men he has the reward he sought for, and he will never have any other. Let us...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. And they will have no more; there is, in their case, no laying up of any store of good works before God. Whatever they may have done,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you. They have their reward. So that they will never have another. They have been paid once for it by the approbation of their fellow-men. They will never have any...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which...