30Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
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For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-31)Saul is at length brought to put himself into the dress of the penitent; but it is too evident that he only acts the part of a penitent, and is not one indeed. Observe, I. How poorly he expressed his repentance. It was with much ado that he was made sensible of his fault, and not till he was threatened with being deposed. This touched him in a tender part. Then he began to relent, and not till the…
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