7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
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But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. …
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-8)Four things we are exhorted to in these verses:— I. To be conscientious in paying our vows. 1. A vow is a bond upon the soul (Num. 30:2), by which we solemnly oblige ourselves, not only, in general, to do that which we are already bound to do, but, in some particular instances, to do that to do which we were not under any antecedent obligation, whether it respects honouring God or serving the inte…
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