5Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5)Note, I. As the prevalency of men’s lusts is owing to the darkness of their understandings, so the darkness of their understandings is very much owing to the dominion of their lusts: Men understand not judgment , discern not between truth and falsehood, right and wrong; they understand not the law of God as the rule either of their duty or of their doom; and, 1. Therefore it is that they are evil…
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