22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? …
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-27)In this part of the chapter we are required, I. To restrain the workings of passion. This lesson we should learn under afflictions; and this we shall learn if we are indeed begotten again by the word of truth. For thus the connection stands—An angry and hasty spirit is soon provoked to ill things by afflictions, and errors and ill opinions become prevalent through the workings of our own vile and…
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