9Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
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Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering;(for he is faithful that promised;)
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
And 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;
God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Here is, I. A very strict caution against all friendship and fellowship with idols and idolaters. Those that are taken into communion with God must have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness. These things they are charged about for the preventing of this snare now before them. 1. They must show them no mercy , Deut. 7:1 , 2 . Bloody work is here appointed them, and yet it is God’s…
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