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142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
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The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 142)Observe, 1. That God’s word is righteousness , and it is an everlasting righteousness . It is the rule of God’s judgment, and it is consonant to his counsels from eternity and will direct his sentence for eternity. The word of God will judge us, it will judge us in righteousness, and by it our everlasting state will be determined. This should possess us with a very great reverence for the word of…
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