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13Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
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Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. …
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-14)God’s glory, (that is, his goodness to man) appears much in the works of creation, but much more in and by divine revelation. The holy scripture, as it is a rule both of our duty to God and of our expectation from him, is of much greater use and benefit to us than day or night, than the air we breathe in, or the light of the sun. The discoveries made of God by his works might have served if man ha…
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