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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth,- I have heard unthinking people say, “Well, if it is in your heart, you may as well speak it; it is better out than in.” I do not agree with them! If you had a barrel of whiskey in your house, that would certainly be a bad thing to be in your possession; but it would not do any hurt so long...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: Especially take heed of that “evil speaking” against which...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God,.... Not a believer's own spirit, sanctified by the Holy Ghost, which is grieved by sin; nor the spirit of a good man, that hears our words and sees our actions, and is displeased and troubled at them; but the third person in the Trinity: and this is said of him by an anthropopathy, and supposes something done...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. The Holy Spirit’s being in you is your seal that you are the child of God, and the power by which you will be preserved till the resurrection; therefore, do not grieve that blessed Spirit.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let all bitterness,.... These words are a dehortation from several vices good men are liable to, by which the Spirit of God is grieved: "bitterness" sometimes designs the corruption of nature, which is the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity; and sometimes actual sins and transgressions, even those of God's own people, which are evil and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, “Kind” is a good old Saxon word; it means kinned. Be ye kind, like men who are akin to one another; look on all men as your brothers.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And be ye kind one to another,.... Good, affable, courteous; which appears in looks, words, and actions; by looking pleasantly on each other, speaking kindly to one another, and mutually doing every good office that lies in their way, and in their power: tender hearted: which is opposed to a being hard hearted to them that are in distress, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. This exposition consisted of readings from Ephesians 4. and Eph_6:1-15.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Tenderhearted, forgiving one another, You will have something that will need to be forgiven, and your brother will have something which you will need to forgive. Eph_4:32. Even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. The Lord write all these words upon our hearts, for Christ’s sake! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even is God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. That is, very freely, very often, very abundantly, very thoroughly, very heartily: “even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you,” so also do ye.