6A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. …
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6)Note, 1. The reason why some people seek wisdom, and do not find it, is because they do not seek it from a right principle and in a right manner. They are scorners, and it is in scorn that they ask instruction, that they may ridicule what is told them and may cavil at it. Many put questions to Christ, tempting him, and that they might have whereof to accuse him, but they were never the wiser. No m…
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