12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
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Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-19)Here the apostle proceeds in pressing upon them serious counsels and cautions to the close of the chapter; and he recites a passage out of Ps. 95:7; where observe, I. What he counsels them to do—to give a speedy and present attention to the call of Christ. “Hear his voice, assent to, approve of, and consider, what God in Christ speaks unto you; apply it to yourselves with suitable affections and e…
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