25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. …
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: …
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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