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172My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
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For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. …
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 172)Observe here, 1. The good knowledge David had of the word of God; he knew it so well that he was ready to own, with the utmost satisfaction, that all God’s commandments are not only righteous, but righteousness itself, the rule and standard of righteousness. 2. The good use he resolved to make of that knowledge: My tongue shall speak of thy word , not only utter praise for it to the glory of God,…
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