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22Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
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Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. …
Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22)Here, 1. David prays against the reproach and contempt of men, that they might be removed , or (as the word is) rolled, from off him . This intimates that they lay upon him, and that neither his greatness nor his goodness could secure him from being libelled and lampooned. Some despised him and endeavoured to make him mean; others reproached him and endeavoured to make him odious. It has often bee…
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