21For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.
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Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-29)We have here the solemn address David made to God, in answer to the gracious message God had sent him. We are not told what he said to Nathan; no doubt he received him very kindly and respectfully as God’s messenger. But his answer to God he took himself, and did not send by Nathan. When ministers deliver God’s message to us, it is not to them, but to God, that our hearts must reply; he understand…
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