31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
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A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Commentary
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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