2For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-12)The foregoing chapter shows how unprofitable and dead faith is without works. It is plainly intimated by what this chapter first goes upon that such a faith is, however, apt to make men conceited and magisterial in their tempers and their talk. Those who set up faith in the manner the former chapter condemns are most apt to run into those sins of the tongue which this chapter condemns. And indeed ...
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