21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? …
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. …
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, …
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-23)One great design of Christ’s coming, was, to set aside the ceremonial law which God made, and to put an end to it; to make way for which he begins with the ceremonial law which men had made, and added to the law of God’s making, and discharges his disciples from the obligation of that; which here he doth fully, upon occasion of the offence which the Pharisees took at them for the violation of it.…
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