24Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
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Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. …
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-27)We have here the application of the foregoing story: “ Hearken to me therefore , and not to such seducers (Pr. 7:24); give ear to a father, and not to an enemy.” 1. “Take good counsel when it is given you. Let not thy heart decline to her ways (Pr. 7:25); never leave the paths of virtue, though strait and narrow, solitary and up-hill, for the way of the adulteress, though green, and broad, and cro…
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