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3He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
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Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. …
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here is, I. A very serious and weighty question concerning the characters of a citizen of Zion (Ps. 14:1): “ Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? Let me know who shall go to heaven.” Not, who by name (in this way the Lord only knows those that are his), but who by description: “What kind of people are those whom thou wilt own and crown with distinguishing and everlasting favours?” This suppos…
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