9Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. …
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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