9Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
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For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. …
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, …
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9)See here, 1. How wicked people are hardened in their wickedness: they make a mock at sin . They make a laughing matter of the sins of others, making themselves and their companions merry with that for which they should mourn, and they make a light matter of their own sins, both when they are tempted to sin and when they have committed it; they call evil good and good evil (Isa. 5:20), turn it off…
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