28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
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. …
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. 13-33)In these verses we have eight woes levelled directly against the scribes and Pharisees by our Lord Jesus Christ, like so many claps of thunder, or flashes of lightning, from mount Sinai. Three woes are made to look very dreadful ( Rev. 8:13 ; 9:12 ); but here are eight woes, in opposition to the eight beatitudes, Matt. 5:3. The gospel has its woes as well as the law, and gospel curses are of all c…
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