20Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
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Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-21)The scope of these verses is to show, I. That national sins bring national judgments. When virtue is ruined and laid waste every thing else will soon be ruined and laid waste too (Ezek. 14:13): When the land sins against me , when vice and wickedness become epidemical, when the land sins by trespassing grievously , when the sinners have become very numerous and their sins very heinous, when gross…
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