10Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. …
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10)Here is, 1. The doom of seducers, who attempt to draw good people, or those who profess to be such, into sin and mischief, who take pride in causing the righteous to go astray in an evil way , in drawing them into a snare, that they may insult over them. They shall not gain their point; it is impossible to deceive the elect. But they shall fall themselves into their own pit ; and having been not o…
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