26For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
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A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-33)In this passage the apostle shows in what instances, notwithstanding, Christians might lawfully eat what had been sacrificed to idols. They must not eat it out of religious respect to the idol, nor go into his temple, and hold a feast there, upon what they knew was an idol-sacrifice; nor perhaps out of the temple, if they knew it was a feast held upon a sacrifice, but there were cases wherein they…
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