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167My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. …
MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 167-168)David’s conscience here witnesses for him, I. That his practices were good. 1. He loved God’s testimonies, he loved them exceedingly. Our love to the word of God must be a superlative love (we must love it better than the wealth and pleasure of this world), and it must be a victorious love, such as will subdue and mortify our lusts and extirpate carnal affections. 2. He kept them, his soul kept th…
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