4They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
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Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4)Note, 1. Those that praise the wicked make it to appear that they do themselves forsake the law , and go contrary to it, for that curses and condemns the wicked. Wicked people will speak well of one another, and so strengthen one another’s hands in their wicked ways, hoping thereby to silence the clamours of their own consciences and to serve the interests of the devil’s kingdom, which is not done…
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