29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
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For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-32)In this last part of the chapter the apostle applies what he had said particularly to the Gentile world, in which we may observe, I. The means and helps they had to come to the knowledge of God. Though they had not such a knowledge of his law as Jacob and Israel had (Ps. 147:20), yet among them he left not himself without witness (Acts 14:17): For that which may be known , etc., Rom. 1:19 , 20 . O…
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