4And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
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And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, …
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-19)We have here Daniel’s prayer to God as his God, and the confession which he joined with that prayer: I prayed, and made my confession . Note, In every prayer we must make confession, not only of the sins we have been guilty of (which we commonly call confession ), but of our faith in God and dependence upon him, our sorrow for sin and our resolutions against it. It must be our confession, must be…
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