5Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
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These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: …
Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, …
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5)Note, 1. The pride of sinners sets God against them. He that, being high in estate is proud in heart, whose spirit is elevated with his condition, so that he becomes insolent in his conduct towards God and man, let him know that though he admires himself, and others caress him, yet he is an abomination to the Lord . The great God despises him; the holy God detest him. 2. The power of sinners canno…
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