17And the way of peace have they not known:
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The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
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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