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1ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
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.
A Song of degrees. Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)The psalmist here shows that godly people are happy people; they are, and shall be, blessed indeed. Felicity is the thing we all pretend to aim at and pursue. He does not say here wherein it consists; it is enough for us to know what we must do and be that we may attain to it, and that we are here told. All men would be happy, but few take the right way; God has here laid before us the right way,…
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