2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
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They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
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:
Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, …
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. …
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-2)When our Lord Jesus promised to send the Comforter he added, When he shall come he shall convince ( John 16:7 , 8 ); for conviction must prepare for comfort, and must also separate between the precious and the vile, and mark out those to whom comfort does not belong. God had appointed this prophet to comfort his people (Isa. 40:1); here he appoints him to convince them, and show them their sins. I…
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