18Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
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But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18)See here, I. The misery of the people that want a settled ministry: Where there is no vision , no prophet to expound the law, no priest or Levite to teach the good knowledge of the Lord, no means of grace, the word of the Lord is scarce, there is no open vision (1 Sam. 3:1), where it is so the people perish ; the word has many significations, any of which will apply here. 1. The people are made na…
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