14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. …
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-18)I. Here the apostle answers several objections, which might be made, to clear his way. No truth so plain and evident but wicked wits and corrupt carnal hearts will have something to say against it; but divine truths must be cleared from cavil. Object . 1. If Jew and Gentile stand so much upon the same level before God, what advantage then hath the Jew ? Hath not God often spoken with a great deal…
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