11For there is no respect of persons with God.
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For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. …
But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)In the former chapter the apostle had represented the state of the Gentile world to be as bad and black as the Jews were ready enough to pronounce it. And now, designing to show that the state of the Jews was very bad too, and their sin in many respects more aggravated, to prepare his way he sets himself in this part of the chapter to show that God would proceed upon equal terms of justice with Je…
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