26The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
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These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: …
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. …
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26)The former part of this verse speaks of thoughts, the latter of words, but they come all to one; for thoughts are words to God, and words are judged of by the thoughts from which they proceed, so that, 1. The thoughts and words of the wicked , which are, like themselves, wicked, which aim at mischief, and have some ill tendency or other, are an abomination to the Lord ; he is displeased at them an…
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