12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
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Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)The scope of these verses is to show, 1. What great advantage true wisdom will be of to us; it will keep us from the paths of sin, which lead to ruin, and will therein do us a greater kindness than if it enriched us with all the wealth of the world. 2. What good use we should make of the wisdom God gives us; we must use it for our own guidance in the paths of virtue, and for the arming of us again…
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