16Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-16)Here is, 1. A parent instructing his child. He is here brought in persuading him to give his mind to his book, and especially to the scriptures and his catechism, to attend to the words of knowledge , by which he might come to know his duty, and danger, and interest, and not to think it enough to give them the hearing, but to apply his heart to them, to delight in them, and bow his will to the aut…
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