8The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
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Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8)This shows that as men are so is their way. 1. Evil men have evil ways. If the man be froward , his way also is strange ; and this is the way of most men, such is the general corruption of mankind. They have all gone aside ( Ps. 14:2 , 3 ); all flesh have perverted their way. But the froward man, the man of deceit, that acts by craft and trick in all he does, his way is strange, contrary to all th…
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