3The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
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Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
A Psalm of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3)It is not only promised that God will guide the upright, and threatened that he will destroy the transgressors, but, that we may be the more fully assured of both, it is here represented as if the nature of the thing were such on both sides that it would do it itself. 1. The integrity of an honest man will itself be his guide in the way of duty and the way of safety. His principles are fixed, his…
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