13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
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Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-21)Wisdom here is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge ; it is Christ in the word and Christ in the heart, not only Christ revealed to us, but Christ revealed in us. It is the word of God, the whole compass of divine revelation; it is God the Word, in whom all divine revelation centres; it is the soul formed by the word; it is Christ formed in the soul; it is religion…
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