17That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
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He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, …
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
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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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