3All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
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Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, …
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)We find not Christ, in all his preaching, so severe upon any sort of people as upon these scribes and Pharisees ; for the truth is, nothing is more directly opposite to the spirit of the gospel than the temper and practice of that generation of men, who were made up of pride, worldliness, and tyranny, under a cloak and pretence of religion; yet these were the idols and darlings of the people, who…
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