10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? …
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)The apostle here passes from special to more general exhortations. I. He teaches us how Christians and friends should treat one another. He advises Christians to be all of one mind , to be unanimous in the belief of the same faith, and the practice of the same duties of religion; and, whereas the Christians at that time were many of them in a suffering condition, he charges them to have compassion…
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