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5Behold, I was shapen{H8797)} in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive{H8765)} me.
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Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? …
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)The title has reference to a very sad story, that of David’s fall. But, though he fell, he was not utterly cast down, for God graciously upheld him and raised him up. 1. The sin which, in this psalm, he laments, was the folly and wickedness he committed with his neighbour’s wife, a sin not to be spoken of, nor thought of, without detestation. His debauching of Bathsheba was the inlet to all the ot…
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