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Increase our faith. Give us more faith.
Increase our faith - This duty of forgiving offences seemed so difficult to the disciples that they strongly felt the need of an increase of fait...
(3) And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. (3) God will never be utterly lacking to the godly (although he may not be as thorough...
Luke 17. The chapter illustrates the difficulty experienced by Lk. in using the material at his disposal. He here brings together without any clear...
DISCOURSE: 1551 THE IMPORTANCE OF FAITH Luke 17:5-6 . And the Apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. And the Lord said, If ye had fait...
And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. Increase our faith - This work of pardoning every offense of every man, and that continually...
The apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.— Our Lord's discourse in the preceding verses, being very opposite to the common notions conce...
And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. And the apostles said unto the Lord (see the note at Luke 11:1 ), Increase our fai...
Occasions of Offence. The Ten Lepers. The Second Advent 1, 2. On causing others to sin. See on Matthew 18:6 ; Matthew 18:7 . 2, One of these l...
Increase our faith ] Others render, 'Give us faith in addition,' i.e. add it to the gifts already promised. Whether the 'faith' mentioned is faith i...
The apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. — The form in which the fragment that thus commences is brought before us suggests, as has bee...
“Take Heed to Yourselves” Luke 17:1-10 The world is full of stumbling-blocks. Men are perpetually placing them in each other's way; and especia...
The thinking of the Master for His disciples is always that they should live in love. He knew, however, that offenses must come. In that connection H...
(3) Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. (4) And if he trespass against thee sev...
THE GROWTH OF FAITH ‘Lord, Increase our faith.’ Luke 17:5 Whatever admits of increase must have degrees. Faith is a ladder with many and lon...
And the apostles said unto the Lord ,.... Either on account of what was now said by Christ concerning offences, and forgiving injuries; being consci...
And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. Ver. 5. Lord, increase our faith ] A most necessary request in this case. For the more a...
And the apostles said, Lord, increase our faith That we may thus forgive, and neither offend nor be offended. And he said, If ye had faith as a gr...
GRACE IN VIEW OF OFFENSES (vs.1-4) We have seen the grace of God clearly and beautifully declared, yet the world rejecting it. The Lord Jesus the...
The Treatment of Offences. 1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible bu...
Though we be not to seek a connection of all those speeches of our Lord which are recorded by the evangelists, they sometimes heaping together many o...
The Disciples' Responsibility Towards God's People And The Warning Not To Get Above Themselves Because Of What They Will Accomplish (17:1-10). Som...
‘And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” And the Lord said, “If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed,” You would say to this s...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 17:1 . Then said he .—Rather, “And he said” (R.V.). The previous discourse had been addressed to the Pharisees; we have now...
Luke 17:5 There is a twofold difficulty in this passage: (1) The manner in which Christ receives the prayer of the Apostles seems to be not such a...
Luke 17:1 . Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: We are so strangely made that even good men do not alw...
Luke 17:1 . Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! Since the fa...
Luke 17:1 . It is impossible but that offences will come. Such as the disciples had just seen, the contempt and derision evinced by the pharisees;...
Increase our faith Increased faith prayed for 1. Observe, that faith is susceptible of being increased. 2. There are important reasons why...
EXPOSITION Luke 17:1-42 The Master ' s teaching on the subject of the injury worked on the souls of others by our sins. The disciples pr...
Concerning forgiveness:
And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
1 Peter 1:22 ; 1 Peter 1:23 ; 2 Corinthians 12:8-10 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:3 ; Hebrews 12:2 ; Mark 9:24 ; Philippians 4:13
Lord, increase our faith — That we may thus forgive, and may neither offend nor be offended. Matthew 17:20 .
5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.