Habakkuk 2:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

Habakkuk 2:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 1:17
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Hebrews 10:38
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Galatians 3:11-12
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. …
Galatians 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Here, I. The prophet humbly gives his attendance upon God (Hab. 2:1): “ I will stand upon my watch, as a sentinel on the walls of a besieged city, or on the borders of an invaded country, that is very solicitous to gain intelligence. I will look up, will look round, will look within, and watch to see what he will say unto me, will listen attentively to the words of his mouth and carefully observe…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. his soul which is lifted up--the Chaldean’s [Maurer]. The unbelieving Jew’s [Henderson]. is not upright in him--that is, is not accounted upright in God’s sight; in antithesis to “shall live.” So He 10:38, which with inspired authority applies the general sense to the particular case which Paul had in view, “If any man draw back (one result of being ‘lifted up’ with overweening arrogancy), my s…