4An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
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A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4)This may be taken as showing us, 1. The marks of a wicked man. He that has a high look and a proud heart , that carries himself insolently and scornfully towards both God and man, and that is always ploughing and plotting, designing and devising some mischief or other, is indeed a wicked man. The light of the wicked is sin . Sin is the pride, the ambition, the glory and joy , and the business of w…
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