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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. Hear this, beloved, I pray you; especially those of you who have hot tempers, and have fallen out with one another. “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” Remember how much Christ has forgiven you, and show a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts. For that is the great foundation of every godly fruit. We are in such a hurry, in such dreadful haste, so selfish, so discontented, so impetuous, and the major part of our sins spring from that condition of mind. But if we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And above all these things put on charity, — Or, rather, “love,” — Col_3:14. Which is the bond of perfectness. The perfect bond, the girdle that goes round, and keeps every other garment of virtue in its place.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. It looks like a very small virtue to be thankful. Yet, dear friends, the absence of it is one of the grossest of vices. To be ungrateful is a mean thing: to be ungrateful to God is a base thing. And yet how many may accuse themselves of it! Who among us is as grateful as he should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; Do not fall out with one another. You are called to peace, for you are cared in one body. Does one hand in the body fight with the other hand? Does the foot contend with the eye? Of course not, for they are in one body. So are you in one body with all your...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the word of Christ dwell in you. Alexander had a casket of gold studded with gems to carry Homer’s works. Let your own heart be a casket for the command of Christ. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. See how...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Do not draw any line of demarcation, and say,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Now the apostle, guided by the Holy Spirit,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. It is seemly according to nature; and it is still more “fit in the Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Husbands love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Oh! there are some spirits that are very bitter. A little thing puts them out, and they would take delight in a taunt which grieves the spirit. I pity the poor woman who has such bitterness where she ought to have sweetness: yet there be some such husbands.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Never say a bitter word against them; and, especially, never dishonour them in the household, before children or servants, as some have done; but do all that you can to manifest love and tenderness toward them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. The duties are mutual. Scripture maintains an equilibrium. It does not lay down commands for one class, and then leave the other to exercise whatever tyrannical oppression it may please. The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Nowadays, there are some children who seem to be at the head of the family, and the parents obey them in all things. This is very foolish and wrong; and when their children grow up, and become their plague and curse, they will bitterly lament their folly in putting...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Some fathers do; they expect more of children than they will ever get, and more than they ought to expect; and they lay heavy burdens upon them, which are grievous to be borne; and for little faults there are severe chastisements. This also is wrong.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; How much there is of that! How quickly the hands go when the master’s eye looks on! But the Christian servant remembers God’s eye, and is diligent always. “Not with eye service as men-pleasers.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But in singleness of heart, fearing God: And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done; and there is no respect of persons.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. If you do all your work in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. This exposition consisted of readings from Colossians 3 and Col_4:1-4.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal;— I sometimes think that the good men who chopped the Bible up into chapters—for it is not in chapters in the original,—must have hoped that we should not read this message to the masters, as he had put it in another chapter. But I never like to read about the servants without also...