4And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
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For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. …
Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)This parable has its key hanging at the door; the drift and design of it are prefixed . Christ spoke it with this intent, to teach us that men ought always to pray and not to faint , Luke 18:1. It supposes that all God’s people are praying people; all God’s children keep up both a constant and an occasional correspondence with him, send to him statedly , and upon every emergency . It is our privil…
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