31And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. …
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-33)The Ezek. 33:1-29 spoke conviction to the Jews who remained in the land of Israel, who were monuments of sparing mercy and yet returned not to the Lord; in these verses those are reproved who were now in captivity in Babylon, under divine rebukes, and yet were not reformed by them. They are not indeed charged with the same gross enormities that the others are charged with. They made some show of r…
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