It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.
Matthew HenryI would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.
Matthew HenryEverlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.
Matthew HenryPoor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.
Matthew HenryGod cannot be represented by an image. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. We wrong God, and put an affront upon him, if we think so. God honoured man in making his soul after his own likeness; but man dishonours God if he makes him after the likeness of his body. The Godhead is spiritual, infinite, immaterial, incomprehensible, and therefore it is a very false and unjust conception which an image gives us of God.
Matthew Henry