13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, …
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)The scope of this paragraph is the same with that of the last, to show that sin is the great mischief-maker; as it is that which keeps good things from us, so it is that which brings evil things upon us. But as there it is spoken by the prophet, in God’s name, to the people, for their conviction and humiliation, and that God might be justified when he speaks and clear when he judges, so here it se…
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