36But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
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For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, …
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-37)In these verses we have, I. Christ’s glorious conquest of Satan, in the gracious cure of one who, by the divine permission, was under his power, and in his possession, Matt. 12:22. Here observe, 1. The man’s case was very sad; he was possessed with a devil . More cases of this kind occurred in Christ’s time than usual, that Christ’s power might be the more magnified, and his purpose the more manif…
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