5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
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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:
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. …
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Timothy must not think it strange if there were in the church bad men; for the net of the gospel was to enclose both good fish and bad, Matt. 13:47 , 48 . Jesus Christ had foretold (Matt. 24:1-51) that there would come seducers, and therefore we must not be offended at it, nor think the worse of religion or the church for it. Even in gold ore there will be dross, and a great deal of chaff among th…
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