19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
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For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, …
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, …
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: …
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-20)Christ having proved that the disciples, in eating with unwashen hands, were not to be blamed, as transgressing the traditions and injunctions of the elders, comes here to show that they were not to be blamed, as having done any thing that was in itself evil. In the former part of his discourse he overturned the authority of the law, and in this the reason of it. Observe, I. The solemn introductio…
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