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80Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
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This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 80)Here is, 1. David’s prayer for sincerity, that his heart might be brought to God’s statutes , and that it might be sound in them, not rotten and deceitful, that he might not rest in the form of godliness, but be acquainted with the subject to the power of it,—that he might be hearty and constant in religion, and that his soul might be in health. 2. His dread of the consequences of hypocrisy: That…
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