20For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. …
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-22)Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit that there are in the things of this world. Here are some of the praises and the precepts of wisdom. I. The praises of wisdom. Many things are here said in its commendation, to engage us to get and retain wisdom. 1. Wisdom is…
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