18Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
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He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18)Note, 1. Those that are honest are always safe. He that acts with sincerity, that speaks as he thinks, has a single eye, in every thing, to the glory of God and the good of his brethren, that would not, for a world, do an unjust thing if he knew it, that in all manner of conversation walks uprightly , he shall be saved hereafter. We find a glorious company of those in whose mouth was found no guil…
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