26The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
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These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: …
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. …
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26)See here, 1. That good men do well for themselves; for they have in themselves an excellent character, and they secure to themselves an excellent portion, and in both they excel other people: The righteous is more abundant than his neighbour (so the margin); he is richer, though not in this world’s goods, yet in the graces and comforts of the Spirit, which are the true riches. There is a true exce…
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