1Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
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But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. …
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)As we must do better than the scribes and Pharisees in avoiding heart-sins, heart-adultery, and heart-murder, so likewise in maintaining and keeping up heart-religion, doing what we do from an inward, vital principle, that we may be approved of God, not that we may be applauded of men; that is, we must watch against hypocrisy, which was the leaven of the Pharisees, as well as against their doctrin…
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