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113SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
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A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 113)Here we have, 1. David’s dread of the risings of sin, and the first beginnings of it: I hate vain thoughts . He does not mean that he hated them in others, for there he could not discern them, but he hated them in his own heart. Every good man makes conscience of his thoughts, for they are words to God. Vain thoughts, how light soever most make of them, are sinful and hurtful, and therefore we sho…
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