24The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
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If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. …
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24)The way of wisdom and holiness is here recommended to us, 1. As very safe and comfortable: It is the way of life , the way that leads to eternal life, in which we shall find the joy and satisfaction which will be the life of the soul, and at the end of which we shall find the perfection of blessedness. Be wise and live. It is the way to escape that misery which we cannot but see ourselves exposed…
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