27An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
These things I command you, that ye love one another. …
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Topics
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27)This expresses not only the innate contrariety that there is between virtue and vice, as between light and darkness, fire and water, but the old enmity that has always been between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, Gen. 3:15. 1. All that are sanctified have a rooted antipathy to wickedness and wicked people. They have a good will to the souls of all (God has, and would have none p…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.