4So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
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And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.
For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)We are here taught to live a life of communion with God; and without controversy great is this mystery of godliness, and of great consequence to us, and, as is here shown, will be of unspeakable advantage. I. We must have a continual regard to God’s precepts, Prov. 3:1 , 2 . 1. We must, (1.) Fix God’s law, and his commandments, as our rule, by which we will in every thing be ruled and to which we…
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