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4Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Mercy to accept what we do well, and grace to keep us from doing ill, are the two things which we are here taught by David’s example to pray to God for. I. David loved prayer, and he begs of God that his prayers might be heard and answered, Ps. 141:1 , 2 . David cried unto God . His crying denotes fervency in prayer; he prayed as one in earnest. His crying to God denotes faith and fixedness in pra…
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