24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-25)Here is, 1. A good caution against being intimate with a passionate man. It is the law of friendship that we accommodate ourselves to our friends and be ready to serve them, and therefore we ought to be wise and wary in the choice of a friend, that we come not under the sacred tie to any one whom it would be our folly to accommodate ourselves to. Thought we must be civil to all, yet we must be car…
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