26He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
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But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. …
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-27)We have here the result of Paul’s trial before Felix, and what was the consequence of it. I. Felix adjourned the cause, and took further time to consider of it (Acts 24:22): He had a more perfect knowledge of that way which the Jews called heresy than the high priest and the elders thought he had. He understood something of the Christian religion; for, living at Caesarea, where Cornelius, a Roman…
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