20Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
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Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
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The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20)Note, 1. Those that devise mischief contrive, for the accomplishing of it, how to impose upon others; but it will prove, in the end, that they deceive themselves. Those that imagine evil , under colour of friendship, have their hearts full of this and the other advantage and satisfaction which they shall gain by it, but it is all a cheat. Let them imagine it ever so artfully, deceivers will be dec…
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