10Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
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But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. …
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. …
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. …
And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10)See here, 1. What the scorner does. It is implied that he sows discord and makes mischief wherever he comes. Much of the strife and contention which disturb the peace of all societies is owing to the evil interpreter (as some read it), that construes every thing into the worst, to those that despise and deride every one that comes in their way and take a pride in bantering and abusing all mankind.…
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