16And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
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Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. …
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-28)Never was any treaty carried on with better management, nor brought to a better issue, than this of Joshua with the people, to engage them to serve God. The manner of his dealing with them shows him to have been in earnest, and that his heart was much upon it, to leave them under all possible obligations to cleave to him, particularly the obligation of a choice and of a covenant. I. Would it be an…
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