13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. …
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. …
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
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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