9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, …
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)It is excellent doctrine that is preached in these verses, and of general concern and use to us all, and it does not appear to have any particular reference to the present state of Judah and Jerusalem. The prophet’s sermons were not all prophetical, but some of them practical; yet this discourse, which probably we have here only the heads of, would be of singular use to them by way of caution not…
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