45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. …
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 37-49)All these sayings of Christ we had before in Matthew; some of them in Matt. 7:1-29, others in other places. They were sayings that Christ often used; they needed only to be mentioned, it was easy to apply them. Grotius thinks that we need not be critical here in seeking for the coherence: they are golden sentences, like Solomon’s proverbs or parables. Let us observe here, I. We ought to be very ca…
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