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40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
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My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, …
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 40)Here, 1. David professes the ardent affection he had to the word of God: “ I have longed after thy precepts , not only loved them, and delighted in what I have already attained, but I have earnestly desired to know them more and do them better, and am still pressing forward towards perfection.” Tastes of the sweetness of God’s precepts will but set us a longing after a more intimate acquaintance w…
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