14Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
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Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-20)God, by the prophet, having laid down the general rule of judgment, that he will render eternal life to those that patiently continue in well-doing , but indignation and wrath to those that do not obey the truth , but obey unrighteousness ( Rom. 2:7 , 8 ), comes, in these verses, to show that men’s parentage and relation shall not alter the case either one way or other. I. He applied it largely an…
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